Monday, July 14th, 2008
Brazil's national federation of industry has lowered its forecast for the country's economic growth this year from 5.0 percent to 4.7 percent, local media reported Sunday.
Due to surging food prices around the world, Brazil's inflat ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Malaysia's lower house speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia Monday rejected an emergency motion of no-confidence filed by the opposition against Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his Cabinet, local media reported.
Pandikar Amin said t ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution in the UN Security Council on Friday that would impose sanctions on Zimbabwe over the country's presidential run-off election in late June.
South Africa, which is mediating Zimbabwe' ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Two German workers were kidnapped Friday in Port Harcourt in Rivers State in southeast Nigeria, according to local media's report.
The incident happened on Friday morning, according to the report, and the full circumstances of the ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Valuable group, a privately held media house of India, has acquired Hollywood-based media company MovieBeam, the first acquisition of a Hollywood media company by an Indian firm, Valuable group said here on Friday.
MovieBeam special ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Ukraine's state oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Tuesday it owes the gas trade intermediary RosUkrEnergo, 50 percent owned by Russian energy firm Gazprom, 897million U.S. dollars.
"As of July 1 this year, the debt of Naftogaz to ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Canon, the world's largest maker of digital cameras, plans to build a new plant to keep up with demand of global market, according to media report on Monday.
The new plant will be built in Nagasaki on Japan's southern island of Kyus ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
NBC Universal and two private equity firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group clinched a deal on Sunday to buy the Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., according to media report.
Though the financial terms were not disc ...
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