Archive for June 22nd, 2008
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the ruling party in India's northern state Uttar Pradesh on Saturday announced the withdrawal of support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, local media reported Sunday.
As for the rea ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The impact of the rising global food and oil prices on the economies of Member States of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) are among the issues that will dominate the agenda of the mid-year Summit of ECOWAS heads of stat ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Microsoft intensified its recruitment campaign on Saturday to woo Yahoo's technical talent as turmoil in Yahoo intensified with a stream of new reports about departing executives.
"There is just great search talent here," said Doug ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The unemployment rate in California, the most populous state in the United States, rocketed up by 0.6 percentage points in May - the largest one-month increase since the state began keeping records in 1976, a newspaper report said on Saturd ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Vietnam attracted 31.6 billion U.S. dollars in foreign direct investment in the first half of the year, as against 20.3 billion dollars of the whole 2007, said a senior economic official Saturday.
The figure proved that foreign inve ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
South Korea and the United States have agreed that the latter will certify that only beef from cattle less than 30 months old will be exported to the former, government sources said Saturday.
The two sides also reached an agreement ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Vietnamese Ministry of Finance has decided to remove import tax levied on aviation fuel to help domestic carriers reduce losses on rising international fuel prices, Vietnam News reported here Saturday.
The tax rate reduction will be ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
U.S. soldiers captured a suspected Iranian-backed Shiite militiaman during a predawn operation in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
The troops detained the suspected "Special Groups" member who believed to be one o ...
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