China sounds alarm on global economy at APEC summit |
- China sounds alarm on global economy at APEC summit
- VIDEO: Woman 'hits Renoir jackpot'
- Clinton sees Congress moving on Russia trade measure
- VIDEO: Woman 'hits Renoir jackpot'
- VIDEO: Obama Romney clash over US economy
- Clinton sees Congress moving on Russia trade measure
- Landslides, floods kill 29 in Vietnam: media
- Landslides, floods kill 29 in Vietnam: media
- China Push Haunts Hong Kong Vote
- Myanmar Passes Foreign-Investment Law
- Beijing Plans Infrastructure Binge
- Petrobras Seeks Partner for Deep-Water Gulf Drilling
- Rescuers focus on remote areas as China quake toll at 80
- Rescuers focus on remote areas as China quake toll at 80
- EU leaders back plan to lower eurozone debt
- A Woman's 'Untreatable' TB Echoes Globally
- Massive Mining Deal on Rocks
- Geography Strikes Back
- Chaos in Indian parliament; PM bemoans state of democracy
- Mexico detains man accused in "Fast and Furious" gun-running killing
| China sounds alarm on global economy at APEC summit Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:47 PM PDT VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - China sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy on Saturday and urged countries gathering at an Asia-Pacific summit to protect themselves by forging deeper regional economic ties.
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| VIDEO: Woman 'hits Renoir jackpot' Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:48 PM PDT A woman in Virginia, US, may have hit the jackpot after discovering what is thought to be an original Renoir painting at a flea market for $50 (£31).
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| Clinton sees Congress moving on Russia trade measure Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:33 PM PDT
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| VIDEO: Woman 'hits Renoir jackpot' Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:48 PM PDT A woman in Virginia, US, may have hit the jackpot after discovering what is thought to be an original Renoir painting at a flea market for $50 (£31).
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| VIDEO: Obama Romney clash over US economy Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:33 PM PDT President Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney have clashed over the US economy after the release of disappointing employment figures.
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| Clinton sees Congress moving on Russia trade measure Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:39 PM PDT VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress may move this month to upgrade trade relations with Russia, a key part of the Obama administration's effort to bolster sometimes strained ties with Moscow and open the Russian market to more U.S. companies, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday.
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| Landslides, floods kill 29 in Vietnam: media Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:42 PM PDT HANOI (Reuters) - Landslides and floods in Vietnam have killed at least 29 people in recent days as heavy rain soaks northern and central areas, state media and the government said on Saturday. More rain was forecast to strike the flood-hit Nghe An province and authorities were getting people out of dangerous areas, the government said. In one incident, 16 people were killed in landslides while they were going to tin mine on Friday in the mountainous northern province of Yen Bai. Another person died in hospital, the Defence Ministry-run People's Army newspaper said. ...
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| Landslides, floods kill 29 in Vietnam: media Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:42 PM PDT HANOI (Reuters) - Landslides and floods in Vietnam have killed at least 29 people in recent days as heavy rain soaks northern and central areas, state media and the government said on Saturday.
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| China Push Haunts Hong Kong Vote Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:56 PM PDT Tensions are flaring in the Chinese territory over a government push to introduce pro-China patriotism classes in the city's schools, just as Hong Kong is preparing to take its next step toward full democracy.
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| Myanmar Passes Foreign-Investment Law Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:19 PM PDT Myanmar's Parliament passed a long-anticipated law that lays the ground rules for global companies planning to move into the country's long-restricted market—legislation that dropped several provision that would have deterred foreign investment but still fell short of what many businesses had hoped to see.
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| Beijing Plans Infrastructure Binge Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:18 PM PDT China has approved an estimated $156 billion in new infrastructure projects in recent days, giving markets a boost, even as economists are fretting that the country is behind the curve in responding to the economic slowdown.
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| Petrobras Seeks Partner for Deep-Water Gulf Drilling Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:29 PM PDT Petrobras is seeking a joint-venture partner to invest as much as $4 billion into the company's deep-water drilling operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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| Rescuers focus on remote areas as China quake toll at 80 Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:24 PM PDT SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Rescuers in southwestern China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by back-to-back earthquakes that killed at least 80 people and damaged tens of thousands of buildings, the official Xinhua news agency said. Friday's shallow 5.6 magnitude quakes struck an impoverished, mountainous part of the country with poor infrastructure and telecommunications and the death toll could rise as news trickles out of cut-off areas, it said. Most of the victims were from Yiliang county in Yunnan province, near the epicenter. ...
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| Rescuers focus on remote areas as China quake toll at 80 Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:24 PM PDT SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Rescuers in southwestern China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by back-to-back earthquakes that killed at least 80 people and damaged tens of thousands of buildings, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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| EU leaders back plan to lower eurozone debt Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:35 PM PDT European Central Bank to allow unlimited bond-buying to help member countries hit by crippling borrowing costs.
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| A Woman's 'Untreatable' TB Echoes Globally Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:38 PM PDT This year, Rahima Sheikh became one of India's first documented cases of "untreatable" tuberculosis. Her journey exposes a blind spot in an Indian medical bureaucracy that neglected to implement widespread treatment.
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| Posted: 07 Sep 2012 05:10 PM PDT The biggest corporate deal of the year turned into a power play after Glencore sweetened its offer for Xstrata to salvage the tie-up.
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| Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:28 PM PDT To understand today's global conflicts, forget economics and technology and take a hard look at a map, writes Robert D. Kaplan.
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| Chaos in Indian parliament; PM bemoans state of democracy Posted: 07 Sep 2012 06:06 PM PDT (Reuters) - India's parliament passed just four bills in a month-long session that ended on Friday, prompting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to question the state of democracy in the Asian power struggling with an economic crisis. Parliament in the country often dubbed the world's largest democracy had been due to debate 30 bills in the sitting known as the monsoon session. ...
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| Mexico detains man accused in "Fast and Furious" gun-running killing Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:30 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police detained a man accused of fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent almost two years ago in Arizona in a botched U.S. operation to track guns smuggled across the border, the government said Friday. Federal police detained Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza on Thursday in Sonora state, which borders Arizona, where agent Brian Terry was shot dead in December 2010, the Public Security Ministry said. The Mexican Attorney General's Office plans to extradite Sanchez Meza to the United States, the ministry said in a statement. ...
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