For Pakistani truckers, NATO route row is all about the money

For Pakistani truckers, NATO route row is all about the money

For Pakistani truckers, NATO route row is all about the money

Posted: 29 May 2012 11:02 PM PDT

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani truck drivers who deliver supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan seethe whenever they recall a cross-border NATO air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year.

Talks under way to end Sudan conflict

Posted: 29 May 2012 10:53 PM PDT

Negotiators meet in Addis Ababa amid fresh exchange of allegations and a Sudanese troop pullout from contested region.


Suu Kyi addresses migrants in Thailand

Posted: 29 May 2012 11:05 PM PDT

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has addressed hundreds of cheering supporters at a Burmese migrant center during a historic trip to Thailand.

U.N. group urges release of American in Nicaraguan prison

Posted: 29 May 2012 10:44 PM PDT

(Reuters) - A United Nations group has called for the immediate release of a U.S. citizen serving a 22-year prison sentence in Nicaragua for drug trafficking and money laundering, concluding that he was wrongly convicted, his supporters announced on Wednesday.

Is There An SST In Your Future? NASA and Aerion To Continue Testing Supersonic (SST) Business Jet Technology

Posted: 29 May 2012 10:12 PM PDT

The very idea of racing sound and beating it to its punch has an appeal that dates from the earliest days of supersonic flight tests. The ability to slice cross-country and transoceanic flight times by half sounds good to anyone who's ever been trapped in the middle seat. To those lucky enough to have witnessed ...


What Europeans Really Think About The Euro And The EU

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:47 PM PDT

European policy makers not only have an economic crisis on their hands. Popular support for their decisions is slipping badly.


Myanmar banking's new "wow" factor - ATMs

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:24 PM PDT

To match Insight MYANMAR-BANKS/YANGON (Reuters) - As Myanmar opens up after five decades of military rule, a country run on cash is finding a new alternative: plastic. Private banks in Myanmar have begun rolling out automated teller machines in recent weeks, revolutionary in a country where people often haul sacks and suitcases of cash to banks. And more ambitious plans are in the works. "It's fantastic, so convenient," Naing Lin Oo, a 26-year-old computer engineer, said after withdrawing about 120,000 kyat ($143) one recent afternoon. ...

How Should We Define Productivity In Healthcare?

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:33 PM PDT

Doctors (Photo credit: Wikipedia?? ?? In a recent Op-Ed, [New York Times, May 27, 2012, Let?s Be Less Productive?? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/opinion/sunday/lets-be-less-productive.html?_r=1 Tim Foundation. ? However, in his new world order, when demand stagnates, and economies need to produce jobs, he recommends that we focus on sectors traditionally defined by "low productivity"?such as medicine, education and social ...


Suu Kyi Takes First Trip in 24 Years

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:32 PM PDT

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greeted hundreds of migrants from her homeland in Thailand during her first overseas visit in nearly a quarter of a century.


Ozawa Still Opposed To Raising Sales Tax

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:32 PM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda failed to persuade ruling party heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa to back a bill to double the sales tax, which could further erode confidence in the nation's fiscal policy and invite a credit downgrade.


Thai webmaster gets suspended sentence in royal insult case

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:47 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai website editor was found guilty on Wednesday of insulting the monarchy but was given a suspended jail sentence, a light punishment in a high-profile case that has renewed the debate over strict royal censorship laws.

Mexican police patrol PepsiCo warehouses after arson fires

Posted: 29 May 2012 08:25 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police are beefing up patrols around warehouses belonging to PepsiCo's local snack food company Sabritas following a series of arson fires that damaged five of the firm's installations, an official said on Tuesday. Federal and state police are patrolling three of the warehouses damaged in attacks this past weekend in the western state of Michoacan, Julio Hernandez, a spokesman for the state government, said in a telephone interview. Installations in three other cities that were not targeted are also under police surveillance, he said. ...


The Housing Recovery: A Rethink

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:17 PM PDT

I predicted since the Summer of 2011 that a housing recovery was building and that it would "kick" around April of 2012. That prediction was based on the assumption that collapsing vacancies and rising rents would fuel a boom in multi-family housing construction. To date, multi-family has experienced a strong turn-around but is well short ...


Six Solyndras: Obamacare Blows $3 Billion on Faulty CO-OP Insurance Loans

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:12 PM PDT

A lot of people have been justly offended by the Solyndra scandal, in which the Obama administration squandered $535 million in a failed solar-energy company backed by one of Obama's largest donors. But $535 mill in failed loans is chump change for this administration. Obamacare, according to the White House, will waste over $3 billion on faulty loans to state-sponsored health insurers called CO-OPs. It's bad enough that taxpayer funds are going down the tubes. But internal documents show that the administration isn't particularly bothered by it.


Nissan Aims At Camry with New Altima in Biggest-Ever Launch

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:12 PM PDT

Last year, Altima passed the perennially ensconced Honda Accord to become the second-best-selling mid-sized sedan in the U.S. market. And that was with the old version of the car. month, launches an overhauled 2013 Altima with a new designed, enhanced interior, some nifty technological firsts, segment-leading fuel economy, a refreshing new message for the brand ...


Myanmar banking's new "wow" factor - ATMs

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:42 PM PDT

YANGON (Reuters) - As Myanmar opens up after five decades of military rule, a country run on cash is finding a new alternative: plastic.

Chen Guangcheng, now in U.S., poised to play role in yet another abortion debate

Posted: 29 May 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Conservatives are seizing on the high-profile story of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist who recently arrived in the United States, hoping that the spotlight on his human rights work will bolster their efforts to curb abortions domestically and in China.

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Health Insurance's $4.4 Billion Bunker Buster - Part I

Posted: 29 May 2012 07:54 PM PDT

?s CEO, Mark Bertolini, has been the most powerful voice in the health insurance industry articulating how their business model has been flawed. This is what has driven Bertolini to reinvent into what he has described as a ?healthIT company with an insurance component.? [See also??Aetna's Remarkable Reinvention Underway.] Obamacare has simply been an accelerant ...


Mexican police patrol PepsiCo warehouses after arson fires

Posted: 29 May 2012 08:25 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police are beefing up patrols around warehouses belonging to PepsiCo's local snack food company Sabritas following a series of arson fires that damaged five of the firm's installations, an official said on Tuesday.

VIDEO: Romney nomination 'no surprise'

Posted: 29 May 2012 07:51 PM PDT

The former governor of Massachussetts, Mitt Romney, has clinched his place as the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November's US presidential election.


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