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Articles 9921 through 10020 of 12412:
- U.S. Image Up Slightly, But Still Negative (Pew Global, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2005)
Anti-Americanism in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, which surged as a result of the U.S. war in Iraq, shows modest signs of abating.
- Developing Ideas On Development (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jun 23, 2005)
Good governance and sound policy reforms will not be enough if the growth rate is to go up and expand employment.
- The Boss Who Disappeared From His Yacht (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 23, 2005)
In Corporate governance there are not always `right' and `wrong' answers, writes Robert Wearing in Cases in Corporate Governance from Sage (www.indiasage.com).
- Strokes Of A Genius (Telegraph, Raju Mukherji, Jun 23, 2005)
The first time I saw Syed Mushtaq Ali was at the Eden Gardens in the “Defence Fund Match”, which was held following the India-China war in 1962.
- India Emerging Leader In Biotech Sector, Says E&y (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2005)
Nearly 30 years after the first biotechnology company opened its doors, the sector is reaching a new level of maturity and globalisation, according to Ernst & Young’s (E&Y) 19th Annual Global Biotechnology Report, Beyond Borders...
- Which States Make Up Russia's Enemies? (Hindu, Vladimir Simonov, Jun 23, 2005)
A recent poll among the Russian public throws up some surprise results.
- Goodbye To Cheap Oil? (Hindu, LARRY ELLIOT, Jun 23, 2005)
It was a question of when, not if, for oil traders on Tuesday as the price of a barrel of crude threatened to burst through the $60-a-barrel barrier for the first time.
- Lively Politics Worries China (Japan Times, HARVEY STOCKWIN, Jun 23, 2005)
Hong Kong -- Although Taiwan's lat est constitutional reforms preclude any declaration of formal independence for the foreseeable future, they do strengthen Taiwan's democratic development.
- Foreign Workers Face Battle To Win Jobs (New Zealand Herald, Julie Middleton , Jun 22, 2005)
Recruiters discriminate heavily against Chinese and Indian job seekers, according to a new study which probed the behaviour of 350 New Zealand managers and professionals.
- G7 To Help Wipe Out Poor Countries' Debt (New Zealand Herald, Sumeet Desai and Gernot Heller , Jun 22, 2005)
The Group of Seven wealthy nations have pledged to help rid the world's poorest countries of their crippling debt, launching a programme that falls short of the immediate action demanded by Africa.
- Trade Between Hostile Neighbours Blossoms (New Zealand Herald, ALAN WHEATLEY , Jun 22, 2005)
Sixteen months into a cautious peace process between India and Pakistan, trade between the two nuclear powers is still an exercise in frustration and missed opportunities.
- China Says Border, Tibet On Agenda At India Meet (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
A longstanding boundary dispute between China an India will be on the agenda when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits New Delhi ...
- Gere Gets Serious About Plan To Lift China Arms Embargo (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Expecting no more than light chit-chat about ballroom dancing, reporters in Tokyo were startled when actor Richard Gere launched into a condemnation of Europe's plans to lift an arms embargo against China.
- Kyoto Risky For Signatories (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
New Zealand and other countries that put a price on emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are taking on a significant commercial risk,
- Where We Stand In Bush's America (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Carroll du Chateau asks the ambassador to the US how he's getting on with the coveted free trade deal.
- Chinese And Indian Economies To Overtake Japan By 2020 (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China and India will be the world's second and third largest economies by 2020, pushing Japan into fourth place, according to research by Deutsche Bank.
- Piracy Dips But Indonesia Remains Violent Black Spot (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Piracy at sea fell by a quarter in 2004, although violence rose in the trade-critical Malacca Straits, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
- British Minister Exposes Rift With Us On Global Warming (New Zealand Herald, Colin Brown , Jun 22, 2005)
LONDON/MOSCOW - The British government is deeply disappointed that US President George Bush has not made a greater commitment to tackling climate change before the G8 summit, its Environment Secretary has disclosed.
- Paying The Price To Enjoy Beauty Of The Himalayas (New Zealand Herald, Amanda Kyne, Jun 22, 2005)
The Maoist rebel appeared out of nowhere. It was 6.30am and I had been up at Poon Hill watching the sun rise over the Himalayas.
- Japan Set To Drop Out Of World's Big Three (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China and India will be the world's second and third largest economies by 2020, pushing Japan into fourth place,
- Dalai Lama Says Tibet Can Be Part Of China (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
The Dalai Lama, seen by Beijing as a symbol of Tibetan separatism, said on Thursday he and his followers were ready to accept that the region remains a part of China.
- Blair Gains Putin's Support On Climate Change (New Zealand Herald, Colin Brown , Jun 22, 2005)
Moscow : - British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday secured the support of the Russian president Vladimir Putin for action on climate change at the forthcoming G8 summit at Gleneagles.
- Chinese Banks Pull Record $22b Back Home (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Chinese banks, including the central bank, brought a record US$16 billion ($22 billion) home from overseas in the fourth quarter, the Bank for International Settlements said.
- New Zealand's Climate Change Challenge Increases (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The latest forecast of net greenhouse gas emissions for 2008-12 shows New Zealand will miss its Kyoto target unless further action is taken, according to a government minister.
- Musharraf A Considerable Player On The World Stage (New Zealand Herald, Fran O Sullivan, Jun 22, 2005)
Pakistani strongman General Pervez Musharraf concedes it is "indeed partially true" that before September 11 ...
- Australia: Regional Profile (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
History: Australia is the world's smallest continent but the sixth largest country.
- Glaciers Shrinking By 10-15m A Year (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The shrinking of Himalayan glaciers could cause widespread flooding in China,
- Rice To Challenge North Korea To Return To Nuke Talks (New Zealand Herald, Saul Hudson , Jun 22, 2005)
TOKYO - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will challenge North Korea on Saturday to give up its nuclear weapons as she presses partners in Asia to make Pyongyang return to six-party arms talks.
- Annan To Usher In New Age Of The Un (New Zealand Herald, Anne Penketh, Jun 22, 2005)
The architecture of global security - unchanged since the defeat of the Axis powers at the end of World War II - is on the point of being transformed, as a decision nears on making Germany and Japan permanent members of the UN Security Council.
- Kyoto Protocol Target Impossible, Says South Korea (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
SEOUL - It will be impossible for emerging industrial powers such as China and South Korea ever to comply with the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, South Korea's Environment Minister says.
- G7 Frets About Oil, China’S Forex Peg (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers met on Saturday to discuss two of the global economic concerns over which they have least control -- high oil prices and China’s fixed currency peg.
- Nepal Rebels Kill Policemen In Jail Raid (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Maoist rebels stormed a jail in central Nepal, killed two policemen and set free 28 inmates, including guerrillas, police said.
- India Urges Opening Retailing To Foreigners (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
- Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Sunday that foreign direct investment must be allowed in the . . .
- Asian Giants To Co-Operate In Race For Energy Assets (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
New Delhi - India and China have agreed to co-operate in their quest for energy security for their booming economies,
- Pepsico Profit Up On Price Hikes, Overseas Growth (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
PepsiCo Inc, the world's No 2 soft drink company, said on Thursday quarterly profit rose 13 per cent on strength in its international business and price increases in North America on its Tropicana juice drinks and the concentrate it sells to bottlers.
- Tsunami Carried Bronze Buddha 1000km Across Ocean (New Zealand Herald, Jan McGirk , Jun 22, 2005)
In mid-December a little bronze-eyed idol, like so many in rural Myanmar (Burma),
- Caterpillar Group Boycotted For Selling Bulldozers To Israel (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
From boots to baseball caps, the Caterpillar fashion range is marketed as upmarket outdoors wear for label-conscious youth.
- Meanwhile, Our Energy Consumption Keeps On Going Up (New Zealand Herald, Chris de Freitas, Jun 22, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol, an icon of the global environmental movement, is finally taking legal effect after years of controversy since it was agreed in 1997.
- China Frees Tibetan Monk (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China has freed Tibetan monk Tashi Phuntsog but a United States-based human rights watchdog said almost three years of imprisonment had left him seriously ill and urged the authorities to provide for his medical treatment.
- Scientists To Re-Measure Everest Amid Concerns It May Be Shrinking (New Zealand Herald, Michael McCarthy, Jun 22, 2005)
Only recently, it got bigger. Now, it may be shrinking. What on earth is happening to Mount Everest?
- Artist Residencies Available In India And China (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
New Zealand writers and artists are invited to apply for artist residencies in New Delhi and Beijing,
- Peace Looks To Australia And Us For R&d Move (New Zealand Herald, ADAM GIFFORD , Jun 22, 2005)
Utility billing specialist Peace Software will lose its mantle as the country's largest software . . .
- Insight Into Indonesia (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Clifford, Jun 22, 2005)
A sadfact reinforced by the Boxing Day tsunami is that our awareness of other cultures is often limited to their presence in world media headlines in times of strife.
- Aviation On Wings (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 22, 2005)
SOME QUIET MAY have returned to Le Bourget after the hectic week-long Paris Air Show,
- High-Tech Pirates Take On Much Bigger Prey (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
Piracy in Southeast Asia has sometimes been seen as an exotic nuisance. Not any more.
- Sense And Sensex (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2005)
That stock markets follow no logic is clear once again. The BSE sensex crossed the 7000 psychological barrier,
- Nuclear Arms Pact 'In Need Of Repair' (New Zealand Herald, Rupert Cornwell, Jun 22, 2005)
The cornerstone international treaty curbing the spread of nuclear weapons is in urgent need of repair if it is to keep pace with globalisation and atomic technology,
- Germany And Japan Press For Permanent Un Seats (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met on Monday to pursue their campaign for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council, the German government said.
- Outsourcing Thriving In Philippines (New Zealand Herald, Stuart Grudgings , Jun 22, 2005)
There never used to be much to do after midnight in this northern Philippine university city except study or hit the lively bar scene.
- Un Seeks Climate 'Roadmap' Beyond Kyoto (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
BONN, Germany - The world should work out a roadmap this year for extending the UN Kyoto protocol on global warming beyond 2012 . . .
- No Consensus On Un Reform After Rivals Meet (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
United Nations - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan intervened yesterday to try and get consensus among supporters of rival plans over expansion of the Security Council but no meeting of the minds emerged, diplomats said.
- Royal Tyranny Creates Threat Beyond Nepal (New Zealand Herald, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 22, 2005)
Most countries got rid of their kings in the end, and the rest took away most of their powers,
- Fao Praises India’S Farm Produce Policy (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jun 22, 2005)
India has made it amply clear that unless rich countries removed all trade-distorting domestic subsidies and export subsidies it would not provide market-opening for other countries.
- Annan Urges China And Japan To Resolve Differences (New Zealand Herald, Evelyn Leopold , Jun 22, 2005)
A Chinese man places flowers in front of a giant poster depicting World War II for the 60th anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II.
- China Tracks Path To Bright Future (New Zealand Herald, Fran O Sullivan, Jun 22, 2005)
The Fortune Global Forum - a major event on the diary of chief executives for multinational corporations - is dominating Beijing this week.
- Nuclear Arms Conference Collapses Without Deal (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
United Nations - After a month of bickering, the 188 signatories to the global pact against atomic weapons ...
- India, China Troops To Train Jointly As Ties Warm (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
The armies of India and China, which fought a border war four decades ago, plan to hold unprecedented joint counter-terrorism and peacekeeping training programmes,
- Amid The New, China Seeks Out The Old (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 22, 2005)
The success of Xintiandi in Shanghai has fuelled demands for the preservation of historic buildings across China.
- China, India To Change International Politics (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
How will the geopolitical map of the world be shaped by 2020?
- Ranks And Scores (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Jun 22, 2005)
With Laveesh Bhandari, I have sometimes attempted to rank Indian states.
- Allies Pledge Millions To Feed Hungry (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Washington- United States President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were to pledge hundreds of millions of dollars today in aid to Africa.
- World Military Spending Nears Cold War Peak (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Massive US spending on the war on terrorism pushed global military expenditure above US$1 trillion ($1.42 trillion) in 2004, the sixth successive year the total has risen, a leading research institute said on Tuesday.
- Blair Expects Global Warming Plan At G8 Summit (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Grice, Jun 22, 2005)
Leaders of the G8 richest nations will agree a plan for global action to tackle climate change at next month's summit at Gleneagles, Tony Blair has predicted.
- Big Business Urges G8 Global Warming Action (New Zealand Herald, Jeremy Lovell , Jun 22, 2005)
LONDON - Big business has added its voice to a growing crescendo of calls on the governments of the world's richest nations to take urgent action to curb potentially catastrophic global warming.
- Britain Strives For Africa Aid Deal In G8 Talks (New Zealand Herald, Brian Love and Sumeet Desai , Jun 22, 2005)
LONDON - Britain appealed on Friday for a big push on debt relief and aid to rid Africa of disease and poverty,
- Rich Nations Near Deal On African Debt Relief (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
The Group of Eight rich nations edged closer to a historic deal that would wipe out US$40 billion (NZ$56bn) of debts owed by 18 of the world's poorest countries as part of a British-led drive to haul Africa out of poverty.
- Research Shows Concerns About Nz Economy (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Around a third of all New Zealanders thought the economy had improved over the last six months, but the outlook is not so positive, with 35 per cent saying they felt the economy would deteriorate in the coming year, compared to 28 per cent of respondents
- Energy Investors Fear A Blackout -- Bs, I (New Zealand Herald, Chris Daniels , Jun 22, 2005)
Power blackouts caused by a lack of investment and Government regulation have emerged as major concerns in a global survey of energy companies and investors.
- Bigger The City, The Bigger The Disaster (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
For the first time in human history, more people will soon live in cities than do not. Urbanisation is intensifying as greater numbers of people, especially in Asia, leave the countryside in search of jobs, better living standards and wider opportunities.
- Strong Economy Puts Rupee On Four-Year Roll (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
India's rupee may gain for a fourth year on expectations the economy will expand at a pace similar to fiscal 2004, the fastest in 15 years.
- Bush And Saudi Prince Focus On Long-Range Oil Plan (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Texas - President Bush has pressed Saudi Arabia to take steps to relieve record-high oil prices, but the world's largest exporter insisted global supplies were adequate and offered a long-term plan to increase production.
- Stop The World So The West Can Get Off (New Zealand Herald, Jason Nisse, Jun 22, 2005)
Are the traditional Western capitalist economies, which felt so comfortable in their success only a few years ago,
- First Un Peacekeepers Arrive In Sudan (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
EL-OBEID, Sudan - The first deployment of a huge UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan began on Wednesday with 12 Nepalese soldiers and equipment arriving in clouds of dust on a cool morning in the west of the country.
- Pyongyang Tests Missile On Eve Of Un Nuclear Talks (New Zealand Herald, Rupert Cornwell, Jun 22, 2005)
Talks on curbing nuclear proliferation which open today in New York seem doomed to failure,
- Search For A Wto Leader (New Zealand Herald, Fran O Sullivan, Jun 22, 2005)
World headlines were dominated for days last week by the ritualistic and somewhat archaic process to select the next Pope to lead the 1.3 billion-strong Roman Catholic church.
- Call For Hiv Screening After Baby Infected (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The Health and Disability Commissioner is calling for a review of the national HIV screening programme for pregnant women after an untested mother infected her baby.
- Wb Tells State To Buck Up On Development Projects (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The World Bank has asked the State government to expedite the ongoing development projects and commended the economic reforms undertaken in the State.
- Forget China, India Is Where It Is At (New Zealand Herald, Naomi Hamersley, Jun 21, 2005)
It’s hard to open a newspaper these days without reading some story or another about China and its economic locomotive.
- The Euro's Legs Are Shaking (Japan Times, DAVID HOWELL, Jun 21, 2005)
Now that the proposed European Union Constitution has been well and truly sunk (although parts may be salvaged), could the same fate happen to the euro currency?
- Central Asia — A Region Destabilised (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Jun 21, 2005)
Just what is the U.S. mission in Afghanistan? The "war on terror" is providing a timeless, seamless context for geopolitics
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