Mark DrajemThe collapse of World Trade Organisation talks over a new global agreement leaves President George W. Bush without a lever to prod Congress to renew his trade promotion authority before it expires at the end of this month, lawmakers...
China, notes Antoaneta Bezlova from BeijingAn unfolding national scandal on the large-scale abuse of child labourers in the brick kiln industry raises questions on the adequacy of planned labour laws that are supposed to take on sweatshops and protect workers'...
Christi van der Westhuizen from RomeDevelopment plans like the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are "just words" if financing is not made available to implement the plans, says Jeffrey Sachs, head of the Earth Institute at New York's Columbia...
FE reportOracle Corporation on Friday announced that fiscal 2007 Q4 GAAP earnings per share were up 27% to $0.31, compared to the same quarter last year. Fourth quarter GAAP revenues were up 20% to $5.8 billion, while quarterly GAAP net...
Steve GuttenbergIn the 1970s, Cerwin-Vega was a big name in the speaker business, but it fell off the radar a while back. It never really went away but instead focused on building speakers for car audio, clubs, and movie theaters....
Apple Inc.'s iPhone won't hit stores until Friday, but the heavily hyped gadget already has unleashed a cottage industry of touch-screen protectors, leather hip carriers and car adapters.Even the most enthusiastic manufacturers said creating formfitting iPhone accessories was an enormous...
After exasperating investors for most of the past 18 months, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel finally found a way to please Wall Street by stepping aside as chief executive.Semel's capitulation, announced late Monday, came less than a week after he...
Stan Beer Unlike a few privileged reviewers, I haven't had a chance to thoroughly test Apple's new wonder gadget but I have held one in my hands and played with it for a few minutes. It's a beautiful piece of...
M A Islam IT is important that students attentively listen to what their teachers say. By doing so, they can probably better understand the lessons. They can be more interested on the topic and this will encourage them to study...
FE SpecialGood study habit is crucial to success of any student. The more learners can make their study habit interesting and delightful, the more they will be inclined to be engaged in studies. Then again, spending good amount of time...
Belal HossainCHOYONICA Biddyapith, a school for the destitute and slum children in Dhaka, might develop into one of the reputed schools in the city if it is offered essential help and supervision by the affluent strata of the society.One humanitarian...
Sarah Murray GOD and Mammon are not generally seen in each other's company, let alone in a business school classroom. But as more MBA students become interested in the potential for the private sector to foster growth in some of...
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Rush Limbaugh and his chauffeur were out driving in the country and accidentally hit and killed a pig that had wandered out on a country road. Limbaugh told the chauffeur to drive up to the farm and apologize to the...
Hungry victims of floods in southwestern Pakistan rioted, protesting slow, meager aid reaching their marooned villages, according to Internet. The police fired tear gas and shots into the air but failed to disperse a crowd of several thousand villagers in...
DILI, June 30 (AFP): Voters in East Timor went to the polls on Saturday to choose a new government tasked with uniting the population of the tiny fledgling state, shattered by violence, poverty and soaring unemployment. The election, the first...
KABUL, June 30 (AFP): US- led coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, an official said Saturday. Taliban fighters tried to ambush a joint US- Afghan military convoy in Helmand...
An exhibit of photographs, film footage and other memorabilia from the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, will go on display Saturday at the palace in London where she lived, according to Internet.Called "Diana: A Princess Remembered," the exhibit is...
BAGHDAD, June 30 (AFP): US and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters killed 26 militants suspected of links to "Iranian terror networks" in raids in the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City on Saturday, the US military said. Seventeen other suspects...
LONDON, June 30 (AFP): British police hunted Saturday for the people behind failed attempts to carry out two car bombings in London's nightclub district in what experts called Iraq-style attacks. Security officials and ministers in the new government of Prime...
HOUSTON, Jun 30 (PTI): The most common procedure for clearing blocked kidney arteries can also release thousands of tiny particles into the bloodstream that can impair kidney function, according to researchers. "This is the first data in humans to show...
India may slap legal notice on British auction house NEW DELHI, Jun 30: India is considering slapping a legal notice on British auction house Christie's to stop the sale of a rare manuscript of Mahatma Gandhi written 19 days before...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (Agencies): The United States yesterday joined the "banana war" at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), alleging the European Union treats Latin American producers unfairly. US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the United States requested a WTO panel...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (AFP): Congress will take back its full trade authority from President George W Bush, said the majority Democratic leadership, dismissing White House urgings to let him keep his special power. The expiration of the Trade Promotion Authority...
NEW DELHI, June 30 (AFP): India's inflation has fallen to a 14-month low helped by lower food prices, data yesterday showed, easing pressure for further interest rate hikes. The wholesale price index, India's closely watched cost-of-living monitor, showed inflation slowed...
ISTANBUL, June 30 (AFP): More than 1,000 statisticians and economists were today winding up four days of talks in Istanbul devoted to two of mankind's most intractable questions: what is happiness and how do you measure it? Experts attending a...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (PTI): Top Democratic Presidential contenders, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are of the view that outsourcing was an issue for Americans and favoured measures to retain jobs, including ending tax breaks for outsourcing. Outsourcing was one...
HONG KONG, June 30 (Xinhua): At one time Hong Kong amazed the world as it transformed itself from a colonial fishing outpost into an economic miracle. Today it's impressing the globe again to become a political wonderworks-a capitalist city thriving...
WASHINGTON, June 30 (AFP): The United States and South Korea are set to sign a landmark free trade agreement to be sent for Congressional approval, but US lawmakers are already saying they will not vote for it. US Trade Representative...
YANGON, June 30 (Xinhua): Myanmar is planning to build a deep-sea port in Kyaukphyu, western coastal Rakhine state, to facilitate maritime trade with neighbouring countries, local traders said today. The Kyaukphyu deep-sea port on the Maday Island in the state...
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