Archive for March 22nd, 2008
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
The International Monetary Fund announced Friday that it will adopt measures to boost the transparency of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in view of their increasing financial influence.
"Official and private commentators have express ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
The current global trade regime is unfair to developing countries and runs counter to their development, a Nobel prize winning economist said on Friday.
And China has fallen victim to US double standards, as the United States repea ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Unemployment rate remained high in California, the most populous state in the nation, but showed signs of declining, according to statistics released on Friday.
State unemployment declined to 5.7 percent from 5.9 percent in January ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
A series of earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.1 jolted western and eastern parts of Indonesia on Saturday, but no damage or casualty was reported, local meteorology agency said here.
The first quake of 5.4 struck at 11:09 Jak ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
An area of a square kilometer in Parayanakulam in the Mannar district in north Sri Lanka held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels was re-captured by government troops during early hours of Saturday, defense officials said ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Government forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are prepared to disarm Rwandan rebels on its soil in a few weeks, a top DRC military official said Sunday.
Dieudonne Kayembe, the DRC Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff, said the ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Israel has approved Russia's plan to deliver 25 armored vehicles to Palestinian security forces in the West Bank, Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman Ronen Moshe said Friday.
Israel was initially opposed to Russia's proposal two year ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Cuba has made water resources and environment protection its environmental strategy priority in order to preserve the country's economic and social development.
Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment said Friday that ...
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