• UN chief concerned over DPRK decision on six-party talks

    UN chief concerned over DPRK decision on six-party talks

    29/07/2009 05:00

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here on Wednesday that he is concerned over the recent decision of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to walk away from the six-party talks. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during his...

  • Deng Xiaoping’s widow dies

    Deng Xiaoping’s widow dies

    29/07/2009 05:00

    Zhuo Lin, widow of China’s late leader Deng Xiaoping, died in Beijing Wednesday. She was 93. File photo shows Zhuo Lin (R) poses with her husband Deng Xiaoping in the Taihang Mountains, after they married in Yan’an. Zhuo Lin, a former consultant of...

  • Car bomb injures 46 people in N Spain

    Car bomb injures 46 people in N Spain

    29/07/2009 05:00

    Forty-six people were slightly injured Wednesday when a car bomb, planted by suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA, exploded outside a police compound in northern Spain, officials said. Investigators view damage to a Civil Guard...

  • Thai fund managers’ self-regulation to buoy standards

    29/07/2009 05:00

    Thai fund managers are working with the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission to create an agency to regulate their own industry to strengthen enforcement and boost public confidence, their trade group said. The new agency, to be...

  • US properties worth $2.2 trillion at default risk

    29/07/2009 05:00

    About US$2.2 trillion of US commercial properties bought or refinanced since 2004 are now worth less than the original price, raising the threat of more foreclosures, Real Capital Analytics said. Prices have fallen so far that about $1.3...

  • Peugeot, Honda rally suggests automakers may be past the worst

    Peugeot, Honda rally suggests automakers may be past the worst

    29/07/2009 05:00

    Toshiyuki Shiga, chief operating officer of Nissan Motor Co., demonstrates charging the company’s prototype electric vehicle at the Oppama test course in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Japan on July 27 Automakers may...

  • Oil plunges 6% on unexpected inventory surge

    Oil plunges 6% on unexpected inventory surge

    29/07/2009 05:00

    Oil prices plunged nearly 6 percent on Wednesday after data showed crude inventories surged the most since April, reminding the fundamentals were still quite weak at the moment. Graphics shows the price of light, sweet crude oil in the past 11...

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