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Analysis
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Saturday, 9 July, 2011
By Kevin Drawbaugh - SYMBOLIC gestures and agreements in principle, but not substantive reforms, are likely to be the main tax policy result of urgent talks about raising the US debt ceiling.
As President Barack Obama and congressional leaders met last week, Republicans sounded more flexible on tax
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Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
By Charlie Zhu -
THE accounting troubles and short-seller attacks plaguing Chinese companies have spared few industries, though one sector appears to be a common target.
The natural resources sector is a space prone to loose accounting and one at the centre of the recent stock scandals. In China,
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Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
By Dave Graham -
PRESIDENT Felipe Calderon’s crushing defeat in state elections has badly hurt his party’s hopes of retaining power in 2012, setting the scene for a rough campaign designed to thwart the main opposition party.
Calderon’s conservative National Action Party, or PAN, trailed way behi
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Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
By Michelle Fitzpatrick -
THAILAND is set to get its first female premier in Yingluck Shinawatra, but observers say her victory as her famous brother’s political proxy cannot be seen as a milestone for women’s rights.
Virtually unknown just two months ago, Yingluck led the Puea Thai party to a st
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Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
By Amie Ferris-Rotman -
FARIDA Nekzad has faced threats of kidnapping, acid attacks and a plot to blow up her apartment since she founded her first news agency in Afghanistan seven years ago.
Members of the Taliban e-mailed some of the warnings; others arrived over the phone. One caller warned sh
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Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
By Risa Maeda -
JAPAN’S main opposition party will support a bill promoting renewable energy on the condition that the government will clarify its impact on electricity costs, a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker in charge of energy policy said yesterday.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan, under fire
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Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
By Andy Sullivan -
YOU would never know it from all the hot air rising out of Washington, but President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans could easily reach a deal to raise the debt limit and avoid an early August default.
Before talks hit a brick wall last weekend, negotiators were tant
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Wednesday, 6 July, 2011
By Patrick Fort -
PRESIDENT Teodoro Obiang cares nothing for the people of Equatorial Guinea, says the main opposition leader Placido Mico after the African Union summit for which the government spent millions of euros.
How is Sipopo, the site built for last week’s two-day summit outside the capi
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Tuesday, 5 July, 2011
By Anne K Walters -
JUST once more. After 134 flights over three decades, the final space shuttle is to light up the sky over Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre one last time on Friday.
The space shuttle Atlantis’ voyage will close the curtains on the space shuttle programme with a 12-day mission to
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Tuesday, 5 July, 2011
By Linda Sieg -
JAPANESE housewife Kayako Hayashi used to think nuclear power was a risk worth taking. Now she just doesn’t know.
Nearly four months after a tsunami-triggered crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant on the other side of Japan, Hayashi — who grew up with reactors in her hometown and
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