Commodities Buoy Miners As Sellers Move In Across Rest Of Market The sharemarket closed almost unchanged, with strong gains among the miners offset by falls across the rest of the market.... Read Full Article Bloomberg Plans New Office To Help New York’s Poor The office would operate in part like a philanthropic foundation and in part like a venture capital company.... Read Full Article White House Is Confident Of Broad Support On Iran The Bush administration expressed confidence on Tuesday that it had rallied international support to intensify diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran’s government.... Read Full Article At Time Warner, Successor To Parsons Emerges After months of speculation, Time Warner said that Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief operating officer, will succeed Richard D. Parsons as chief executive at the end of the year.... Read Full Article Lid Stays On Wages Growth As Kevin Rudd at Labor’s campaign launch vowed to abolish WorkChoices, the Howard Government seized on figures showing wages grew just above 4 per cent over the year as evidence that Coalition policie... Read Full Article |
Asia NewsEast Timor, Shaken by Attack on Leaders, Weighs Causes2008-02-15 06:01 - In the wake of Monday’s twinned attacks on the president and prime minister of East Timor, the United Nations and East Timorese police have begun a joint investigation. As Mores Evolve, India’s Divorced Seek Second Chance 2008-02-15 06:01 - Marriage in India is still, by and large, socially compulsory. But in a measure of the slow churning of Indian social mores, divorce and remarriage are slowly gaining acceptability. Pakistan: Two Admit Arming Bhutto’s Attacker 2008-02-15 06:01 - Two men arrested last week in connection with the assassination plot that killed Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader, admitted that they provided a suicide jacket and pistol to her attacker. Australia Says ?Sorry? to Aborigines for Mistreatment 2008-02-15 06:01 - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia’s tortured relations with its indigenous peoples with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs. China: Truck Spills 30 Tons of Sulfuric Acid 2008-02-15 04:56 - A tanker truck carrying 30 tons of sulfuric acid overturned in Yunnan Province, spilling the corrosive chemical into a drainage ditch that feeds into the Xinsi River, the state news media said. In Tribal Pakistan, Religious Parties Are Foundering 2008-02-15 04:55 - Since being swept to power in 2002 on a wave of anti-Americanism, religious parties in Pakistan have found the public mood has now shifted against them. Australia Offers an Apology to Aborigines 2008-02-14 06:01 - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia’s tortured relations with its indigenous peoples with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs. Australia Says NATO Needs New Strategy in Afghanistan 2008-02-14 06:01 - Australia will not increase its troop levels in Afghanistan until ?underperforming? NATO members shoulder their fair share of the burden, the country’s defense minister said Tuesday. Spielberg Drops Out as Adviser to Beijing Olympics in Dispute Over Dar... 2008-02-14 06:01 - After trying unsuccessfully to prod China to do more to try to end Sudan’s attacks in the Darfur region, Steven Spielberg said he was withdrawing as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics. South Korea: First Trial by Jury 2008-02-14 06:01 - A trial with a jury was held at a local court in Taegu, the first in Korea’s legal history. The nine-member jury heard the case of a 27-year-old man accused of assaulting a 70-year-old woman while trying to rob her house. After hours of deliberation, most jurors recommended a two-to-four year suspended prison sentence. Their verdict, and others to follow, was not binding; the final say still rests with a judge. ?Still,? a court spokesman said, ?the introduction of a jury will enhance the people’s confidence in court verdicts in our country.? In the trial on Tuesday, the judge later announced a four-year suspended sentence. ?The judge concluded the jury’s decision was logical,? the spokesman said. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 |
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