House, KPK, BPK to join forces on oil graft probe

Team up...a big project for three of the most powerful bodies start to investigate for oil and gas sector. KPK (The CORRUPTION ERADICATION COMMISSION), with outstanding achievement for solving many of corrupt...

Argentina’s protests around increased food taxes

Soaring food taxes are causing some serious political discords in Argentina. The President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and the Vice President Julio Cobo came head to head in the 16-hour televised debate on the...

Argentinean Senate defeats presidential grain-export tax package

It has been a treacherous morning after the Argentinean Vice President Julio Cobos voted at Congress against the proposal of President Christina Fernandez for a grain export tax. By casting a single decisive vote,...

Malawi Expo 2008 Marked as a Success

"SAN BERNARDINO, July 11, 2008 (Cheetah Index)-The Malawi Expo says it is overwhelmingly impressed with the turn out at Malawi Expo 2008 which commenced from Tuesday July 1-3, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel in San...

OPINION: McCain "quip-flops" again; getting the best and worst of two worlds

That John McCain, he's got a million of them ... quip-flops that is.The latest came in an unannounced stop of the McCain/Bush campaign at a Pittsburgh, PA, restaurant.  A reporter asked McCain about a story...

Mccain "jokes" about killing Iranians with cigarettes

Knock..knock....Trick or treat..." Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may...

U.S. exports cigarettes, bras, bull semen to Iran

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. exports to Iran -- including brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics and possibly even weapons -- grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. ...

Iran threatens Israel

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know, carrying out threats against your neighbour, is not the way to go when you are looking to world opinion in setting up a nuclear program for your people's...

South Korea lifts ban on US beef

After much dithering South Korean government has finally allowed import on US Beef. The beef row has posed a political crisis for the incumbent  government."South Korea has formally lifted an import ban on...

US-South Korea Beef Agreement Reached

An agreement has been reached between the USA and South Korea regarding beef exports. Beef from cattle more than 2 1/2 years old will not be shipped to South Korea.The onus will be on US exporters to verify the...

Catholic Church to export energy

This a very smart move!–By Barney Zwartz , the Age, June 16, 2008"THE Catholic Church in Australia hopes to be contributing electricity to the national grid and to be mostly self-sufficient in water in 25 years.""The goal of the Greening...

New strike by Argentine farmers

Farmers in Argentina have issued a strike notice starting at 0300 GMT Sunday June 14, to protest against tax increases on food exports." Argentina is one of the world's top exporters of wheat, soya and beef. A...

Oil imports increase US trade gap

Soaring fuel prices have now started  hitting even American economy badly. According to a latest report for the first time in last 13 months, US trade deficit have gone up to $60.9bn in April ."The rising...

Argentine farmers block exports of grain and meat

Thousands of Argentine farmers have made a deal to suspend the export of grain and meat, in an ongoing dispute with the government over taxes."The farmers said they would not take their goods to market between...

Vietnam ranks second among leading exporters to the US

Vietnam is listed among the 30 largest exporters to the US, according to 2007 statistics released by the US International Trade Commission (USITC). The country has been among the top five in terms of garment and textile exports to the US, estimated at US$4.29 billion for...
 

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