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• Markets in Europe, Asia post healthy gains
LONDON - European and U.S. markets brushed aside earlier losses in Asia and weaker than expected U.S. jobs data to post healthy gains Friday. Investors were eager to see the government’s plan to buy up the bad mortgage-related debt on US banks ...
• Maldives gears up for first democratic election
MALE, Maldives - To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia. Detractors accuse him of ruling the Maldives as a dictator, violently ...
• For chocolate lovers: more kinds of cacao
One of the targets is for us to improve cacao, because in many countries, like Asia and Africa, cacao losses could be up to 80 percent of the farm production," Motamayor said. Motamayor and his colleagues detailed their findings in a paper published ...
• U.S. financial panic goes global
When we buy less from Asia, Asia has less income and fewer jobs to generate(income) to buy from us.” But the flow of capital across borders dwarfs the flow of goods. That's why the spread of financial turmoil overseas is even more worrisome ...
• Chinese lawyers pressured to drop milk cases
Meanwhile, China’s iconic White Rabbit candy was back in production after being pulled from shelves in the U.S., Europe and Asia following tests that found it contained melamine, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday. Guan Sheng Yuan Co. did not ...