Global crisis hits over 1,300 south China firms, Export houses shut in India

The after effects of the economic meltdown are affecting China and India severely.  Export oriented companies have been hit hardest in both countries. In southern China, factories that have relied on exporting to the United States and other rich nations have begun...

Financial crisis spurs interest in business and cooking books

In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, more and more people are picking up business books. In hot demand is anything from “Finance for Dummies” and historical recounts of previous financial crises...

UK Government refuses to rescue councils caught in Iceland bank collapse

The UK's consumer savings protection laws will be put to the test for the first time after the colapse of Iceland's Landsbanki, which had banking outlets in the UK under the name ICEsave. However it has emerged...

Friendster Announces Support for Facebook Apps

Long before Facebook, there was Friendster. A pioneer of online social networking, it suffered from outages and technical problems just as MySpace was picking up steam. Friendster corrected its errant path,...

5 Must-Knows About Your 401(k)

" With the nation's financial markets in turmoil, many are wondering what it means for their retirement funds. In a piece of good news, the Treasury Department announced Monday that it will guarantee the money...

Why Warren Buffett invested in Goldman Sachs?

  Smartest investor of world beting on his billion Dollor Plan "   When Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs, it came as a major surprise. Since the billionaire's massive investment comes at a time when the...

Abandoned whale calf put down amid angry protests

A baby whale that had been beached near Sydney, Australia had to be put down today, after authorities had spent many days trying to come up with a way to rescue it. The calf had attracted hundreds of spectators...

Why no Drilling? Nancy Pelosi in Bed with T. Boone Pickens

A financial relationship between Nancy Pelosi and Big Wind pusher T. Boone Pickens?  True.  Speaker of the House, Leader of the Most ethical house in history,  has invested in CLINE,  a Pickens...

EBay Wins Lengthy Trademark Battle Against Tiffany

Previous article written about eBay paying $61 million to Fashion Companies over sales of fake Good can be read here.With the recent courtroom defeat of eBay, there is finally a reason for them to celebrate as...

Solar Power competes with high Oil Prices, Here comes the Sun

Here's a trivia question: What state has installed more solar panels than any other except California? If you said New Jersey, your solar energy IQ is brilliant. And if you know why several thousand huge mirrors...

Canada Needs Foreign Ownership Curbs

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly Canadians and Americans have witnessed foreign ownership in our prospective countries.Statistics posted the left of this story from US Government agencies can...

F1 boss issues breakaway threat

This has been talked about before but it'll never happen." F1 boss issues breakaway threat ...

Nepal's ex-king has hundreds of millions stashed away: author

Even after Nepalese king has lost his kingdom, he is still quite rich. According a new revealtion ex-King Gyanendra had stashed away millions of US dollars in the different parts of Nepal. " Nepal's ousted king is thought to have close to 200 million dollars stashed...

Services begin at new £6m station

South London has gotten its first new tube station since World War Two. The new station is located at Epsom, and the first train arrived yesterday."Services have begun at a new railway station in south London.The first Southern Train to Epsom arrived at Mitcham Eastfields in...

Small, rural farms given boost as EU cuts subsidies for large landowners

Rising food prices and shortages of dairy produce and cereals are causing the EU to adjust its farming policies in favor of more food production and more subsidies for smaller greener farmers..."Brussels took...

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