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Chinese executives to stand trial with Rio staff - Yahoo!7 Finance News

Thursday March 4, 2010, 8:00 pm Two Chinese steel company executives will face court alongside four detained Rio Tinto staff, local media reports say. The Shanghai newspaper National Business Daily reports that two Chinese steel company executives have been charged,

ANZ subsidiary linked to Cambodian army - Yahoo!7 Finance News

Thursday March 4, 2010, 12:26 am ANZ Royal, a subsidiary of one of Australia's largest banks, has denied it is involved in a scheme that creates partnerships between private businesses and Cambodian military units. Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen announced the initiative last

Thailand on edge as court rules on Thaksin billions

Dubbed "Judgment Day" by local media, the looming verdict has prompted the government to deploy tens of thousands of security forces across the country amid warnings of potential violence by Thaksin's supporters. Opposition groups have said they will only muster a small crowd on the day to save

Thai court rules on Thaksin fortune

AP Thousands of troops and police were deployed ahead of the Supreme Court ruling on proceeds from the sale of the fugitive tycoon's telecoms firm, which have been frozen since the 2006 coup that toppled Thaksin. Thaksin addressed his backers in Thailand via videolink from Dubai during the

New site digs up the dirt in detail

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New site digs up the dirt in detail

Five years ago Adrian Holovaty stripped out the statistics and reorganised them in a much more readable format, separating them to detail the types of crime, peak times and which places to avoid. Chicagocrime.org became an instant hit and spawned the idea for Everyblock, a website launched in

Toyota to announce Prius recall soon

AFP Japan's crisis-hit Toyota Motor is set to announce a recall of the latest model of its top-selling Prius hybrid in Japan and the United States due to brake design flaws. "The company has notified its dealers in Japan that it would recall all the (new model Prius) vehicles sold in
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Iraq Appeal Panel Allows Barred Candidates to Run (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

The panel, the Cassation Commission, said the candidates can take part in the March 7 vote while it examines their appeals, according to a statement. Election Commission official Hamdia al-Husseini told Agence France-Presse that those later found to have links to the Baath Party would be
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Gold miner denies hiring mercenaries

An Australian gold mining company denies it has flown Fijian mercenaries in to protect its operation in Papua New Guinea . The local media has labelled the 14 Fijians who arrived at Allied Gold 's Simberi mine in New Ireland earlier this month as mercenaries. PNG immigration
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Safety violations at Jetstar Pacific - Yahoo!7 Finance News

Thursday January 14, 2010, 8:04 am Top managers at Vietnamese budget airline Jetstar Pacific ( JPA ), part-owned by Australia's Qantas, violated maintenance regulations, Vietnamese regulators say in a report obtained on Wednesday. The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam

Safety violations at Jetstar Pacific

AFP Top managers at Vietnamese budget airline Jetstar Pacific (JPA), part-owned by Australia's Qantas, violated maintenance regulations, Vietnamese regulators say in a report obtained on Wednesday. The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) said the three officials made
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China Raises Banks’ Reserve Ratio to Cool Economy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Reserve requirements will increase by 50 basis points from Jan. 18, the central bank said on its Web site this evening. The existing levels are 15.5 percent for big banks and 13.5 percent for smaller ones. Chinese lenders added a record 9.21 trillion yuan ($1.3 trillion)
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China Raises Banks’ Reserve Ratio to Cool Economy (Update1) - Bloomberg.com

Reserve requirements will increase by 50 basis points from Jan. 18, the central bank said on its Web site this evening. The existing levels are 15.5 percent for big banks and 13.5 percent for smaller ones. Chinese lenders added a record 9.21 trillion yuan ($1.3 trillion)
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China Orders Banks to Set Aside More Cash as Bubble Risk Grows - Bloomberg.com

Reserve requirements will increase by 50 basis points from Jan. 18, the central bank said on its Web site this evening. The existing levels are 15.5 percent for big banks and 13.5 percent for smaller ones. Chinese lenders added a record 9.21 trillion yuan ($1.3 trillion) of loans in
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China Guides Bill Yields Higher as Interest-Rate Increase Looms - Bloomberg.com

The People’s Bank of China sold one-year bills at a yield of 1.8434 percent after last week guiding three-month rates higher. Lu Ting , a Bank of America-Merrill Lynch economist, said today’s move reflects banks’ expectations for a “moderate” increase in the benchma
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Brewery workers take bosses hostage

Bosses taken hostage ... workers protest outside an Anheuser-Busch InBev plant in Leuven, Belgium. Photo: Reuters Workers at an Anheuser-Busch InBev brewery in eastern Belgium have taken their bosses hostage after an announcement of lay-offs at the world's biggest brewer, local
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Brewery workers take bosses hostage

Bosses taken hostage ... workers protest outside an Anheuser-Busch InBev plant in Leuven, Belgium. Photo: Reuters Workers at an Anheuser-Busch InBev brewery in eastern Belgium have taken their bosses hostage after an announcement of lay-offs at the world's biggest brewer, local
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Dow Jones combines WSJ and news wire

AP Dow Jones & Co is combining two of its three business units - the one that produces The Wall Street Journal and the one that sells research tools and its news wire service to corporations - into a single group. Dow Jones, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, says combining the...
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Japan Airlines shares soar on state credit

TOKYO January 5, 2010 JAL stock had soared 35.8 per cent by lunchtime as investors welcomed Tokyo's decision at the weekend to double a state-backed loan to Asia's largest carrier to ¥200 billion ($A2.4 billion). ''There was talk about the company's operating funds drying up..
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Mexico Peso Falls a Fourth Day on Possible New Finance Minister - Bloomberg.com

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s peso fell for a fourth day, its longest loosing streak in a month, on speculation Social Development Minister Ernesto Cordero may replace Finance Minister Agustin Carstens . Speculation is growing among investors, economists and in local media that President.
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