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People love to talk about the excesses of the western world and western society, but for true, over-the-top excess all you have to do is look no further than some of the Gulf states in the Middle East to witness what that truly means. From the...
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Tanzania has been for some years now considered a mining economy, with a 50 tones export of gold in 2009 it has ranked the fourth largest gold producing country in...
made popular Apr 14 2010
Gold is going bonkers. At present, all it knows is how to climb up. Central banks around the world seem to have caught the bug of buying gold. China wants it, India...
made popular Dec 24 2009
The FIFA world cup is to be played in South Africa next year. And Mugabe is determined to make as much mileage as possible out of the international sporting fixture in...
made popular Nov 30 2009
This Sunday “60 Minutes” will present an investigation into how the global gold industry is helping fuel violence and chaos in the Congo.
CBS reporter...
made popular Nov 26 2009
Sanction busters are smuggling 40 tonnes of gold annually out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations official has told the BBC.
Dino Mahtani said most...
made popular Nov 17 2009
India has buried a shame in gold, but reaped a worry in grains. (The Telegraph)
In a stunning turnaround in fortune from 1991 when, in order to avoid defaults in...
made popular Nov 6 2009
The gold miners gather in front of the old Crown Gold Mines and begin a peculiarly South African form of protest. They dance, hoot horns, wave knob-kerry sticks, and...
made popular Sep 25 2009
The Saudis have simply too much oil money and too much time and too much religious fanaticism with too little education.
This can be since in many arenas of Saudi...
made popular Aug 7 2009
The stock-market panic is not the only reason for rising investment demand.
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Why is gold dropping right now when anyone in their sane mind would expect it to rise? The simple answer to this question is, “because Comex-gold isn’t gold”...
made popular Oct 16 2008
In Japan’s landfills, there is enough gold, silver and platinum to propel the country into the top tier of resource-producing countries - along with Australia,...
made popular Sep 17 2008
The sewers of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s overcrowded and polluted capital city, are as unpleasant as you could imagine.
made popular Sep 2 2008
Although “Participating matters more than winning the Olympics” had been around since the time ancient, I share more pragmatic modern notion that “Victory...
made popular Sep 2 2008
Shawn Johnson won the balance-beam gold Tuesday night in the final event of women’s gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Nastia Liukin took silver.
made popular Aug 21 2008
Michael Phelps locked arms with his three teammates, as though they were in a football huddle calling a play, then hugged each one of them. It took a team to make him...
made popular Aug 17 2008
Jamaican Usain Bolt left his rivals trailing to win gold in the Olympic 100m final with a new world record.
made popular Aug 16 2008
With the pressure of the host country weighing heavily upon them, the Chinese men’s gymnastics team came into the Beijing Games knowing full well what was expected of...
made popular Aug 12 2008
India’s Bindra wins gold medal! Abhinav Bindra won the first individual gold medal for India ever on Monday with a thrilling come-from-behind victory in the...
made popular Aug 11 2008
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President George W. Bush delivered an encouraging motivational message to Beijing-bound Olympians Monday, urging them to
made popular Aug 6 2008
The fall in crude oil prices over the last couple of weeks has been attributed to changes in demand-supply conditions, but there is much more to this slide.
made popular Jul 31 2008
Heavy bets in deep out-of-the-money calls and other bullish plays in the gold options market indicate bullion has a shot at rallying to an all-time peak of $1,200 an...
made popular Jul 26 2008
Australian scientists have for the first time unearthed hard evidence of the discovery of natural gold nano particles
made popular Jun 25 2008
Scientists have for the first time discovered gold nanoparticles, setting to rest speculation about whether they existed at all.
Scientists of the Commonwealth...
made popular Jun 24 2008
The price of gold continues to hit record highs, with futures trading at $1,000 an ounce this morning. Gold crossed the $900 level in January.
The recent rise comes...
made popular May 27 2008
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Now that you’ll have been waiting for a while, it’s finally happened. Scorva by Satyajeet Sethi has made its launch into the e-commerce world by...
made popular Apr 28 2008
I remember going to a jewellery shop last week for surveying the latest price of gold with respect to a few ornaments. This was required as I had to prepare a budget...
made popular Apr 3 2008
The gold necklace, made nearly 4,000 years ago, was found in a funeral site near Lake Titicaca, researchers report in Tuesday’s issue of Proceedings of the...
made popular Apr 1 2008
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# Gold crossing the $1000 mark for the first time in history places it as the best currency one can still possess.
# Risings prices of agricultural commodities...
made popular Mar 14 2008
Gold prices could hit 1,000 dollars an ounce in 2008 after this week’s record-breaking run that was fuelled by fierce investment demand, precious metals...
made popular Jan 18 2008
Warring groups today wreak havoc on a country first exploited as a Belgium colony. From the awful times of enforced rubber quotas, when punishment meant cutting off...
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