HSBC Bank Shutters Branches as Global Recession Intensifies

Sunday May 17th 2009 UTILA HSBC Bank is closing branches in Honduras only two years after taking over Banco Grupo Ahorro Hondureño in 2007. Once thought to be most powerful bank in the world The Hong Kong...

Visualisations as to a recession.

Given todays economic climate can Governments simply continue in treating symptoms rather than causes?. To be where we are at today it came from somewhere!. A single News item seeded my mind yesterday as to why a driver and his vehicle should both be sat at a cliff edge in...

Murray abused and dying.

If Murray was a person he would be suffering decades of abuse, misuse, neglect and the perpetrators would be behind bars for a lifetime. Murray is however a River system running down the Eastern side of Australia....

The NEW job shortage

The NEW job shortage. Obama sold new jobs during his campaign. New “high tech” jobs, new “better paying” jobs, and jobs in “new high tech alternative fuel industries to power this nation into a new era”....

India maligning Pakistan to conceal its own intelligence failure

Irrespective of the fact that who carried out the recent Mumbai attacks, the facts coming to fore with the passage of time show that the Indian government is maligning and threatening Pakistan just to hoodwink its masses as well as the world community. A latest report...

Former Pakistan PM refuses to meet Zardari for 'photo session'

Annoyed by the government's failure to take right steps in the right direction to overcome the problems facing Pakistan and unfulfillment of promises by the rulers, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has refused to meet President Asif Zardari, saying that he does not want to...

Oldest U.S. man dies at age 112

The oldest man in the U.S died at the age of 112 and 204 days in California.George was officially recognized as the living oldest man in America,and second oldest living man in the world.The son of George Francis...

Laura Bush: Bush's Presidency was not a Failure

Washington - Laura Bush disagrees with critics who call the presidency of George W. Bush a failure.""I know it's not, and so I don't really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way," she said in...

Hawaii's Oahu island regains power after blackout

This is one of the side effects ofmodern city living.  A smallfailure in a line or in a transformer can affectthousands of people. " Crews gradually restored electrical service across parts of Oahu on...

Pakistan PM says India making excuses to cover security failure

Ruling out possibility of war with India, Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday that New Delhi was showing aggressive mood under public pressure because of its intelligence failure in Mumbai attacks.Talking to reporters after addressing the ninth...

PM's terror stand comes back to haunt him

"NEW DELHI: Of all his formulations, the one that has returned most often to haunt Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the assertion that Pakistan too, like India, was a victim of terrorism. The macabre irony...

Sense of popularly elected government's failure prevails in Pakistan

The sitting government in Pakistan that came into power following the February 18, 2008 elections seems to be failing in resolving the crises facing the country because concentration of powers in the hands of a democratically elected president is proving detrimental to the...

US-Iraq: The big picture is a neo-con failure

Michael Schwartz examines what's left of neo-con master-plan and what is Obama's vision Pt. 2 of 3

Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang Steps Down

Yahoo! is looking for a new CEO. It appears as though Jerry Yang's hardball with Microsoft and then later failure on not being able to close an advertising deal with google ended up costing him his job. He is...

Pelosi supports new help for ailing US automakers

The US has been rife with specualtion over whether the US government would inject huge amounts of money into the US auto industry in order to keep it afloat or let it die. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...

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