Asian governments move to halt stock market slide

Governments in Asia are pumping in big funds to fight off the credit crunch emerging out of global crisis. Governments are also cutting down cash reserve and interest rate to make more liquidity. Hong is cutting its key interest rate by 100 basis points effective Thursday....

Growing Your Company with Existing Clientele

"Being in business for a while, you eventually begin to shed many of your initial fears as you begin to find confidence in what you are doing. Living though situations you once feared and coming out safely on the other side is a learning experience many people have to go...

My cancer victim son's final wish

" PROUD Lorraine Fleming had more reasons than most mums to shed a tear as she saw her son’s bride approaching in all her wedding finery. For bridegroom Reece was just eight years old — and getting “hitched” to his sweetheart Elleanor Pursglove was his last dying...

Metropolis Lost, Found

It appears ODESSA's ratline to Argentina was good for something:"Film historians had doubted they would ever find the missing parts of "Metropolis" -- until three reels of the science fiction movie made in Germany a long time ago, were discovered in a country far, far...

Reports: D.C. Madam has committed suicide

"Police say they believe Deborah Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam, may have committed suicide at her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, Fla., according to the Associated Press and local news organizations."Tarpon Springs detectives said a body was found in a small storage shed...

U.S. economy losses 63,000 jobs in February

"NEW YORK: The U.S. economy shed 63,000 jobs in February, the government said Friday, the fastest falloff in five years and the strongest evidence yet that the country is headed toward - or may already be in - a recession. The unexpected decline raised expectations that the...

Lots to learn in a cowshed

"You can learn a lot in a cowshed, especially if it has a resident teacher. In Britain a farmer's wife has set up a school in a derelict cow shed. The teacher, Anne Miller, had lost her job at the local village primary when it closed so she set up their own private school...