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A cargo ship loaded with containers disembarks from the Tianjin Port in China, March 4, 2009. China says the decline in its exports accelerated in February as a slump in global demand worsened, adding to pressure on China to pump up its economy with a massive stimulu
(photo: AP / Andy Wong)
China's Exports Rise 46%
The New York Times
| BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month o...
Panasonic's Groundbreaking Full HD 3D Home Entertainment System Now Exclusively Available At Best Buy's Magnolia Stores
PR Newswire
  Best Buy's Union Square, NYC Store Sells World's First Panasonic Full HD 3D System | DIRECTV Gives First Panasonic Full HD 3D System Customer One Year of Free Service | SECAUCUS, N.J. and RICHFIELD, Minn., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic an...
E.on Net Income Up Sharply
The New York Times
| Filed at 4:41 a.m. ET | FRANKFURT (AP) -- Germany energy company E.On AG said Wednesday that 2009 net income rose sharply to euro8.4 billion ($11.4 billion) partly as a result of the disposal of assets. | E.On, based in Duesseldorf, earned euro1.3 ...
Richmond not on list of Chevron cuts
San Fransisco Chronicle
| Oil giant Chevron Corp. has revealed where it plans to cut its worldwide refining and marketing operations - and Richmond is not on the list. Get Quote | Symbol Lookup | Chevron executives told a gathering of Wall Street analysts Tuesday that the o...
China February Exports Jump 45.7 Percent
The New York Times
| Filed at 12:54 a.m. ET | BEIJING (AP) -- China's exports rose in February in a new sign of growing global demand that could help persuade officials to let the Chinese currency rise. | Exports were up 45.7 percent over a year earlier, the Chinese cu...
Business briefs: March 10
Knox News
| Meeting Tuesday on coal ash storage plan | TVA will hold a public meeting Tuesday in Kingston to gather views on changing the handling of coal fly ash from a wet system to a dry storage system at the Kingston Fossil Plant. | The meeting will be fro...
Time to Celebrate? Not in a Big Way
The New York Times
| Anniversaries are a good time to reminisce. The global stock market rally is now a year old — the lows were hit on March 9, 2009 — and that certainly brings back memories. It’s easy to see why the MSCI World Index has surged 71 pe...
Yukio Hatoyama, Member of the House of Representatives, addressed at the World Economic Forum Japan Meeting 2009 in Shinjuku Ward, Tky Metropolis, on September 4, 2009.
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Japan DPJ elder: PM may have to quit over base feud
The Star
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama may have to resign if he fails to resolve by the end of May a feud over a U.S. airbase that is eroding his support rates ...
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Mexico's peso firms, stocks hit 6-week high
The Guardian
* Peso firms, stocks close at 6-week high * Greece austerity plan raises hopes of EU aid (Adds closing stock prices, adds central bank purchase) MEXICO CITY, March 3 (Reuters) - Me...
MySpace Outlines Makeover After Exec Shake Up
The New York Times
| Filed at 10:33 p.m. ET | LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to...
Soaring China Home Prices Thwart Ordinary Buyers
The New York Times
| Filed at 10:14 p.m. ET | SHANGHAI (AP) -- The luxury apartment buildings Yang Xuhua passes on her way to work are a daily reminder of her own frustrated efforts to buy a home. Prices for even modest apartments in Shanghai have soared, putting home ...
Guatemala moves closer to extraditing former president to US to face money laundering charges
KDVR
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala is a step closer to extraditing former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face money laundering charges. | Chief prosecutor Amilcar Velasquez says the Mexican government approved extradition. The ...
Guatemala moves closer to extraditing former president to US to face money laundering charges
Hartford Courant
CITY (AP) — Guatemala is a step closer to extraditing former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face money laundering charges. | Chief prosecutor Amilcar Velasquez says the Mexican government approved extradition. The OK was nee...
Guatemala moves closer to extraditing former president to US to face money laundering charges
Star Tribune
| GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemala is a step closer to extraditing former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face money laundering charges. | Chief prosecutor Amilcar Velasquez says the Mexican government approved extradition. The OK was ne...
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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens to Chinese President Hu Jintao, as they attend a state dinner reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Standing behind them are their translators.
(photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics
Asia Times
| By Willy Lam | China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreement. What is new is China's much-enhanced global clout in the wake of the world ...



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