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With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in world trade that many economists say could last long after any economic recovery.
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IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and...
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The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.
Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next...
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The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation...
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Bony-armed...
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Sir, I represent the self employed urban middle class from services sector. I Have spent the 50 odd years of my existence in this country. Now when my descent has...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are...
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The slumping global economy is having a stimulus effect on Costa Rica’s famous sex-tourism industry, as a growing number of unemployed women — from Colombia...
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The last depression the U.S. went through was in 1930’s, and it was part of huge global downturn.
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Brazil has come out of recession after its economy grew in the April-to-June quarter.
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Initially greeted to much acclaim and a rally Wall Street, President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner - former head of the Federal Reserve in New York...
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In this photo taken Wednesday, April 1, 2009, Jerry Miller, 74, of Conrad, Iowa, makes a delivery at an area pharmacy in Nevada, Iowa.
