HONG KONG (Reuters) – Mainland Chinese who have a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaching China’s one-child policy, Chinese media quoted a family planning official as saying, as mainland Chinese women flock to the former British colony to give birth. Hong Kong’s maternity wards are booked…
New digital ad and circulation solutions drive future for Central American publisher.Springville, UT (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 Grupo Dutriz, the multimedia news group in El Salvador, has signed an agreement with Digital Technology International (DTI™) to …
Three American diplomats will travel to Sri Lanka for talks about alleged killings of civilians by government troops in their campaign to defeat the Tamil Tigers, an official and report said Sunday
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s embassy in Sudan said all 29 Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in the border state of South Kordofan remained in rebel hands, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday, despite a Sudanese report that 14 of them had been freed. …
Iran seems to be under political, economic and perhaps military threat from all corners of the globe. Economic sanctions from the U.S. and European Union have targeted Iranian oil exports in an effort to promote an internal change
Either the New York Giants or the New England Patriots will parade around on the field after the Super Bowl with newspapers in hand. There are …
For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey’s leader, a brash visionary who propelled his country to regional prominence, tangled with an American author who dwells on the existential in his work.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Police in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang have detained a Wenzhou educational company boss for allegedly failing to repay large debts, the official Shanghai Securities News
The United States plans to maintain special forces in Afghanistan after it winds down its combat operations in the country, using them to hunt down insurgent leaders
With the world of technology advancing at a frightening rate, it’s perhaps surprising that we still have so many different units of money.
Chicago-based OneIMS joins Aleyant Systems in offering an informational webinar series for printers using Pressero software.Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 04, 2012 On January 12, OneIMS hosted an online webinar entitled “Putting it all together: Marketing integration to entice the tech-savvy consumer” in partnership…
By The Associated Press LONDON – A strong performance by the broadband business helped British telecommunications company BT PLC report a 41 per cent increase in net profit in the three months
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers’ index for the month of January has come in at 56 points, versus a reading of 54 for the month before.
After British whistleblower Michael Woodford was sacked as CEO of Olympus and revealed the Japanese firm had covered up losses of $1.7 billion, he mounted a campaign to get his job back. His effort though went nowhere, with Japanese financial institutions preferring
TOKYO (Reuters) – Mayor Nobuto Hosaka had more than saving taxpayers’ money on his mind when he recently invited bids from rivals of giant utility Tokyo Electric Power Co to supply power…
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde praised Saudi Arabia’s role in stabilising the global economy during a visit to Riyadh on Saturday, but …
The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region.
LONDON (Reuters) – The centre of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper clean-up operation is an unimposing set of offices in a corner of the company’s campus in Wapping, east London. It is here that the scarred reputation and the future of Murdoch’s UK newspaper titles may be rescued …
LONDON (Reuters) – The centre of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper clean-up operation is an unimposing set of offices in a corner of the company’s campus …
BEIRUT – Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syria’s bloodshed, despite international outrage Saturday over a devastating bombardment of the
TOKYO (Reuters) – Three Japanese towns would be willing to restart their nuclear reactors if they pass government stress tests, two were against the idea but …
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh Friday ruled out an investigation by Air India into the charges made by a Canadian daily that Praful Patel, former civil aviation minister, and
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has just one day left to strike a deal with impatient lenders and reluctant political party leaders on a 130 billion rescue plan …
By The Associated Press LISBON, Portugal – Portugal’s prime minister says he wants his bailed-out country’s banks to be given more leeway to meet their capital requirements because
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – The purported spokesman for a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings in recent weeks in Nigeria has been arrested, an official with the country’s secret police said Wednesday.
Brazil may end a decade-old automotive trade pact with Mexico and start charging tariffs on cars imported from that country as it battles a growing trade deficit in the sector, the government and local
