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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
From city landmarks as Toronto's CN Tower and Montreal's Mount Royal Cross to government offices, from businesses to residences, Canadians turned off their lights from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. Saturday to join the global Earth Hour movement in an ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
British people are living in "uncertain times", amid a financial shock on a scale not experienced in recent times, a senior British economist said Tuesday.
Richard Lambert, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Indonesia dismissed fears of a virus re-assortment between avian and human seasonal influenza strains in a 2007 human death involving bird flu infection, the country's health ministry senior official said here.
Director General of C ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
A printing plant being billed as the world's largest is now in operation cranking out newspapers for Rupert Murdoch's News International - a vote of confidence in Britain's troubled newspaper industry.
The plant in Broxbourne, 32 kilomet ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz may introduce a plan for a loyalty program to stanch declining US sales at a shareholders meeting today.
Schultz will probably offer free coffees or discounts to customers using prepa ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Siemens AG Chief Executive Officer Peter Loescher told analysts in November that his plan to revive Europe's largest engineering company would have its setbacks.
A disappointment came on Monday, when Munich-based Siemens said a review of ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
If this doesn't end the market panic, what will?
In a rush of desperate moves - or creative actions, depending on the point of view - the Federal Reserve since last Friday has shown a determination to prevent the US banking system from d ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
European Central Bank (ECB) board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi Tuesday defended the bank's role in the aftermath of a warning by European Union leaders over the relentless rise of the euro against the U.S. dollar.
Smaghi said the ECB' ...
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