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• Oil steady in Asia ahead of OPEC meeting
SINGAPORE - Oil prices were steady Friday in Asia below $108 a barrel as investors wait to see if OPEC moves to restrict output at its meeting next week amid a two-month plunge in prices. Light, sweet crude for October delivery was down 17 cents to ...
• World markets plunge after Wall Street sell-off
Across in Asia, stock markets lost ground. In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index sank 2.75 percent to 12,212.23. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index tumbled 2.24 percent to 19,933.28, dropping below 20,000 for the first time in more than a year.
• Dell plans to sell computer factories — report
The most likely buyers of Dell’s factories will be big contract manufacturers, most of which are based in Asia, the paper said. Dell’s factories were originally tailored for a PC market that was driven by corporate customers ordering large volumes ...
• The last mammoths in Siberia were American
Woolly mammoths once roamed the Earth for more than a half-million years, ranging from Europe to Asia to North America. These Ice Age giants vanished from mainland Siberia by 9,000 years ago, although mammoths survived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic ...
• Big risks for rising number of child brides
While the practice occurs worldwide and in wealthy nations too, it is most common in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Central America, the report said.