Asian Stocks Lure Global Investors The New York Times | BEIJING — If the World Bank is correct, 2012 will be the second-weakest year for the global economy in a decade, at a level consistent with a world recession that like the 2008-9 financial crisis, will not spare Asia. | Its sister organizatio...
Tajikistan's Limited Options GroundReport | At home, the government confines appointments to circle of insiders, while abroad the country has few real friends. | By Lola Olimova - | Tajikistan’s government is incapable of making the changes needed to take the cou...
Blizzards push SE Europe energy grids to limits The Guardian * Worst cold spell in decades could last until end of month * Croatia, Turkey struggle with setbacks to gas supply * Countries struggle with record demand amid limited supply (Adds record Belgian demand second para from bottom) By Oleg Vukmanovic and...
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India's top court revokes telecoms licences Al Jazeera | India's supreme court has revoked all 122 telecoms licences issued under a scandal-tainted 2008 sale, plunging the mobile network market of Asia's third-largest economy into uncertainty. | Thursday's ruling is a setback for Manmohan Singh's governm...
Remarks: Kazakhstan Independence, U.S.-Diplomatic Relations Scoop Thursday, 2 February 2012, 11:06 am | Press Release: US State Department | Remarks for the Atlantic Council Conference on Twenty Years of Kazakhstan's Independence and U.S.-Diplomatic Relations | Remarks | Robert O. Blake, Jr. | Assistant Secretary, ...
German industries urge China to lift restrictions on raw materials m&c | Berlin - The Federation of German Industries (BDI) urged China on Tuesday to promptly lift restrictions on the export of important raw materials after losing a case before the World Trade Organization (WTO). | 'China has to obey the WTO ruling and ...
Pushing nuclear exports after Fukushima Al Jazeera | Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports, even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. | "The reason why Japan is taking these dangerous steps [exports] is to gain business opportunities and diplomatic clout with ...
