Archive for May 29th, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday honored the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with a Clean Air Excellence Award for their plan to reduce air emissions from port-related sources.
The twin ports in the Los Angeles ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The Philippines posted a growth rate of 5.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared with the previous year's 7.0 percent, the government said on Thursday.
The Philippine economy succumbed to rising oil prices, the slowdo ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Indonesia, the only OPEC member in Southeast Asia, will pull out of the group after aging fields and declining production force the region's biggest economy to boost imports as crude oil prices reached records.
Energy Minister Purnomo Yu ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
SK Energy, South Korea's largest oil company, said it will buy a 35 percent stake in a joint petrochemical project with Sinopec in Hubei province.
The two companies signed a framework agreement to form a joint venture, SK Energy said in ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Argentina totally suspended natural gas supply to the central-south region of Chile on Wednesday, Chilean Energy Minister Marcelo Tokman said.
Tokman said the cut would be temporary and the supply was expected to be resumed by the e ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The current world food crisis has pushed at least 500,000 people in Guatemala and El Salvador into poverty, officials with the United Nations World Food Program(WFP) said Wednesday.
These people were already a step away from falling ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The U.S. dollar traded in the upper 104 yen range early Thursday in Tokyo.
At 9 a.m., the dollar was quoted at 104.61-66 yen against 104.62-72 yen in New York and 103.95-97 yen in Tokyo at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The euro was ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher Thursday.
In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average gained 214.11 points, or 1.56 percent, from Wednesday to 13,923.55.
The broader Topix index of all First Sec ...
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