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Market buoyed by commodities
Strength in commodities pushed the miners up and helped the overall share market today. The All Ordinaries index rose 56 points to 5,143 and the ASX 200 gained 1.1 per cent to 5,067. Rio Tinto added...
Oil Firms Say Azerbaijan-Turkey Pipeline Back In Service
(BP), which operates the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan line. An official of the Turkish petroleum company Botas, which runs the Turkish section of the line, confirmed the conduit was "operational" and the Me...
Palestinian water boss reduced to crisis management
RAMALLAH/STOCKHOLM, 28 August 2008 (IRIN) - The occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) continues to suffer from drought, but the head of the Water Authority told IRIN there was a limit to what he could ...
Price caps will be hard to enforce
DUBAI // With Ramadan just days away, retailers are sceptical the Government will be able to enforce price caps on basic food items. There have already been frequent violations to the so-called ceilin...
Demand for workers in finance down
Manpower Israel Ltd. unit Manpower Professional Ltd. indicate that the economic slowdown is beginning to have an effect on the job market. Demand for financial sector workers was down 22.1% in the sec...
Top Marine wants to shift troops from Iraq to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -- Marines in western Iraq's Anbar province no longer face a serious threat from insurgents and would be better used in increasingly violent regions of southern Afghanistan, the top Marine...
La. congressman on trip to Iraq, Afghanistan
U.S. Rep. Don Cazayoux visited troops in Iraq on Wednesday, traveling in the Middle East with other House members, while back home in Louisiana his Republican challenger reported strong fundraising fi...
Wriedt not commenting on future
Tasmanian Cabinet Minister Paula Wriedt still has not decided whether she has a future in politics. In a statement today, Ms Wriedt says she is still under medical care as she continues to recover fr...
DOR BioPharma Announces Named Patient Access Program for orB..
DOR BioPharma, Inc. (OTCBB: DORB) ("DOR" or the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing products to treat the life-threatening side effects of cancer treatments and serious ga...
China finds huge gas reserves in south-west
BEIJING - CHINA has discovered huge gas reserves in the south-western province of Sichuan, state media reported yesterday. It hopes the find will help ease growing concerns about energy security.
Douglas leaves Lehman Brothers for corporate job
The former investment banker takes on a new challenge as CFO of a French agricultural company focusing on Central and Eastern Europe.
Tata Motors plant under Trinamool siege
The area surrounding the Tata Motors small car plant in Singur has virtually come under the control of Trinamool Congress as the party's indefinite dharna entered the fifth day on Thursday.The car pla...
Coalition Forces in Iraq Detain Nine Suspects, Find IED
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2008 Coalition forces in Iraq detained nine suspected terrorists, including two alleged al-Qaida in Iraq leaders, and found an improvised expl...
Right Attitude Needed To Land A Job
Bandar Seri Begawan - Local job seekers were reminded to have the "right attitude" if they wish to secure a job in the private sector.
Iraqi forces starting to lead but need US aid
The Iraqi battalion leader huddled over the map with his American advisers, showing them how he planned to surround a Sunni enclave where al-Qaida militants were believed hiding.
Burma’s opposition lambasts UN envoy for irrelevant &l..
Burma’s main opposition party – the National League for Democracy – on Monday lambasted the United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari for praising the activities of the ‘Tripartite ...
Bhullar tied sixth after first round in Jakarta
Gaganjeet Bhullar has happy memories of his visit here last year when he finished runner-up. He seemed to be carrying on from where left off as he had a sensational front nine to card four-under 68 for a tied sixth place at the end of the first round of the Pertamina Indonesia President Invitational on Thursday.
Prachanda to induct UML in Government
Kathmandu, Aug 28 : Nepal's Prime Minister Prachanda today said that he will initiate the process to expand his cabinet by inducting the ministers from Unified Marxist Leninist (UML).
Kinmen visa changes need negotiation, says SEF
The Straits Exchange Foundation said on Wednesday that negotiations with China were necessary before Taiwan could give landing or multiple visas to Chinese visitors to the outlying island of Kinmen, a...
Israel agrees to grant amnesty to 64 Palestinian activists
Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel agreed to settle the issue of 64 wanted Palestinian fighters and activists, security sources said on Wednesday. In a meeting between Israeli and Palesti...
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