Mayor Sullivan Asked for Criminal Investigation into Ethel Whitty's Alleged F...

Vancouver’s Mayor Sam Sullivan announced that he had picked up the phone this pre-election week to ask police to investigate a leak from a meeting about a planned City bailout of the Olympic Village developer. So a Vancouver woman figures Sullivan can pick up the...

An Indian in every Pakistani?

"Shireen M Mazari The writer is a defence analystLack of formal education and sheer ignorance does not by definition imply an innate sense of stupidity. On the other hand, formal education in itself is no guarantee of an intelligent and rational human...

Pakistan says next US leader must stop attacks

Pakistan's prime minister today said that whoever is elected as the new US president later today must stop the attacks and cross-border raids into sovereign Pakistani territory. The comments signal that the new leadership in Pakistan is set to try to forge a very different...

Of rescues and diminishing returns: James Saft

" By James Saft LONDON (Reuters) - The market's reaction to the new super bailout follows a familiar pattern: relief, disappointment and the need for a higher dose of the same medicine. Don't expect risk appetite in most financial markets to be sustained; the "make it...

Most Asian stocks rise

Stock Investors in Asia seemed encouraged by governments measures to free up liquidity, including easing regulations for share buybacks and corporate financial reserve limits in different countries. Indian stock market started with positive note and sustained...

Germany to guarantee bank deposits

"In addition to helping rescue Hypo Real Estate from possible collapse, the German government has sought to reassure its citizens by announcing that it will guarantee all bank savings. Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück told reporters in Berlin that this meant that bank...

Pakistani bank refuses to accept women’s guarantees

"Although a woman supervises Pakistan’s banking sector as the central bank governor, a premier commercial bank of the country, according to one of its senior officials, cannot accept women as witnesses or their guarantees in what a prominent lawyer and senator has described...

Fourth Baby Dies As Milk Crisis Widens in China

A fourth baby is reported to have died in China's continuing and widening milk scandal. Tests found the chemical melamine in liquid milk produced by three of the country's leading dairy companies. Thousands of children have gotten ill from drinking the tainted milk. "A fourth...

Democrats adopt goal of health care guarantee

" Democrats shaped a set of principles Saturday that commits the party to guaranteed health care for all, heading off a potentially divisive debate and edging the party closer to the position of Barack Obama's defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.Obama, soon to be the...

Guilty as Ordered

This makes a nice contrast to President Bush's criticism of China's human rights record today. Maybe he should also spend a bit of time cleaning up civil rights abuses in his own country. " Now that was a real nail-biter. The court designed by the White House and its...