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Cigarettes   India   Industry   Investment   Photos		  The Times of India 
Govt may ban FDI in cigarette making
NEW DELHI: Government is all set to ban foreign direct investment (FDI) in cigarette manufacturing. A cabinet note towards this end has been prepared by the commerce and industry ministry and... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Feb. 23, 2009. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1
Economy   Investment   Market   Photos   US		  The New York Times 
Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range
Shares traded within a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows. With little in the way of economic reports or earnings to help drive shares higher, investors are taking... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Toyota Supra MKIV from the en:2 Fast 2 Furious movie.  The Daily Tribune 
The Toyota myth is shattered
ZOOMING IN 03/10/2010 With the quickening pace of technological advance and the globalization-induced intensification of international competitiveness during the 20th Century’s second half and the... (photo: Creative Commons / Simon Davison)
Automaker   Business   Japan   Photos   US
Road Construction - Rehabilitation - Concreting - Construction Workers - Laborers - Philippines  The Daily Tribune 
Neda board rushes P6-B infra plan before ban
03/10/2010 A few days before a 45-day ban before and after elections on infrastructure spending takes effect, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) board, headed by President Arroyo,... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
Funding   Infrastructure   Philippines   Photos   Projects
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A man speaks on his cell phone in front of a giant globe in the main venue hall of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009. The Star
INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests
OSLO (Reuters) - Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank or... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Climate Change   Deforestation   Environment   Photos   UN
The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) enters Yokosuka, Japan The New York Times
Japan Drops Denial of Cold War 'Treaties'
TOKYO — Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold-war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had... (photo: U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kyle D. Gahlau )
Defence   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   US
Sony Bravia Televisions - LCD TVs Wall Street Journal
Sony Plans TV, 3-D Push
By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI TOKYO—Sony Corp. said on Tuesday that its television business will shift to "attack" mode in the coming fiscal year by ramping up TV... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Electronics   Photos   Sony   Television   Tokyo
Kangaroo in Motion taken in South West Rocks in Australia in February 2007, Nina May The Daily Telegraph Australia
Mystery kangaroo in Japanese mountains
PEOPLE in a Japanese mountain region reported a number of kangaroo sightings, leading journalists to attempt to stalk the marsupials, AFP reports. The descriptions given... (photo: Creative Commons / Nina98097024)
Animal   Environment   Japan   Photos   Wildlife
Shanghai has been a political hub of China since the 20th century. The 1st National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. In addition, many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s. Asia Times
US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise
By Peter J Brown The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and the... (photo: Creative Commons / Naus)
Asian   China   Economy   Photos   US
Cars transit on the streets Thursday Feb. 5, 2009 in Shanghai, China. Two years ago, China zoomed past Japan to become the world's No. 2 vehicle market. Now it looks poised to pass the United States to be the biggest. While car sales in China have slowed lately, they haven't plummeted like those in the U.S., where January sales tumbled 37 percent from a year ago to 656,976 vehicles, a 26-year The Boston Globe
China passenger car sales up 55 pct in February
SHANGHAI-China's passenger car sales climbed 55 percent from a year earlier in Feburary, despite a long national holiday, on strong demand for smaller cars and sport... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko)
Automobile   Business   China   Photos   Shanghai
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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh speaks during a news conference at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. POLL: Rush Limbaugh has promised to leave the USA if HCR passes. Do you want ... Newsvine
A scene of an ordinary day in Las Piñas City, one of the cities of Metro Manila, Philippines RP 4th most corrupt on Asia-Pacific list The Daily Tribune
Philippine -Economy -Investment -Building RP is 4th most corrupt country in Southeast Asia—poll Inquirer
Politics
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at Moscow's President Hotel, Friday, March 27, 2009. Friday's conference on coordination of global efforts to combat terrorism and drug-trafficking in Afghanistan, whose participants include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China and the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekista Russian foreign minister says nuclear arms treaty could be signed by April Star Tribune
South Korean Army soldier stands guard with his machine gun near the border village of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 28, 2009. South Korean and U.S. troops raised their alert Thursday to the highest level since 2006 after North Korea renounced its truce with the allied forces and threatened to strike any ships trying to intercept its vessels. Report: NKorea Has Medium-Range Missile Division The New York Times
President Barack Obama walks to the lectern to present his strategy during a live televised address to the nation at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York Dec. 1, 2009. Obama Plans Florida Forum to Discuss NASA's Future The New York Times
Agriculture
Apples - Fruit Seasonal food: apples The Guardian
Workers pick cotton at a farm in Leme, 65 miles (150 kilometers) north of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday, April 28, 2004. A landmark World Trade Organization ruling this week that U.S. cotton subsidies cause artificially low international prices is leading to predictions that cotton producers from Brazil to Western Africa may now have an incentive to increase production and get what they call a fair price for their Brazil Threatens Retaliation in Dispute on Cotton Subsidies The New York Times
Myanmar junta leader Sr. Gen Than Shwe reviews soldiers during Armed Forces Day celebrations Sunday, March 27, 2007, in Yangon, Myanmar. Thousand of soldiers and police have been deployed in Myanmar´s largest cities over the weekend keeping even th Details Near on Long-Awaited Burmese Election The New York Times
Technology
Sony LCD TVs - Electronics Sony to start selling 3D TVs in Japan from June Khaleej Times
2007–2008 Toyota Landcruiser (VDJ200R) VX, photographed at the 2008 Australian International Motor Show Toyota says no flaw found with safety electronics The Siasat Daily
Empty Bottles - Plastic Bottles IBM, Stanford Cite Advance in Plastic Recycling The New York Times
Offshore
In this image provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society anti-whaling protestors in an inflatable boat pursue the Japanese factory whaling ship Nisshin Maru as water cannon is used to blast the radical conservationists during the clash in frigid Antarctic waters Monday, Feb. 2, Australian Police Search Anti-Whaling Ships The New York Times
A humpback whale tail has wavy rear edges.  Danes denied humpback whale hunt Independent online (SA)
A female supporter of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cheers as she holds a banner showing him, at his final election campaign rally, on Azadi street in western Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. New Iran Sanctions Draft Circulated The New York Times
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