Climate change's secret weapon Asia Times | By Khadija Sharife | The water is crystalline, the sand is whiter than white and elegantly bent palm trees sway in the breeze. This is how the Seychelles markets itself: as "another world". Tourism is the mainstay of this heavenly island, averaging 20% of gross domestic product (GDP) and 60% of fo...
KSE increases 114 points on foreign buying The News International Tuesday, March 09, 2010 | By our correspondent | KARACHI: The Karachi stocks market continued to recover on the third successive bull-run session on Monday on the back of uninterrupted foreign inflows. Therefore, this was the sixth consecutive sessio...
Not all at sea The Star | Stopping terrorists at sea requires similar action on land, with better international coordination and active and passive measures. | THE source of the information remains murky, especially given the specifics of the supposed intelligence: terroris...
Baker Hughes Announces February 2010 Rig Counts redOrbit Posted on: Friday, 5 March 2010, 05:00 CST | HOUSTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) announced today that the international rig count for February 2010 was 1,068, up 21 from the 1,047 counted in January 2010, ...
Full text of Barack Obama's state of the union address The Guardian | The US president's first state of the union speech | The words used most frequently by Barack Obama in his state of the union address. Photograph: Wordle.net | Madam Speaker, Vic...
Deora on oil hunt in Africa Deccan Chronicle Deora on oil hunt in Africa | Delhi/Mumbai, Jan. 24: The Union minister of petroleum and natural gas, Murli Deora, is in Africa and he is on the prowl for big game — with a team ...
Indian coast guard gets new class of OPV The Siasat Daily | Panaji, February 28: The Indian Coast Guard today received the first of the new class of offshore patrol vessel (OPV) indigenously designed in house and built by Goa Shipyard limited (GSL). | The GSL spokesman said that the ship named ICGS Vishwast...
Ku Li sticks to his guns The Star | enghock@thestar.com.my | PETALING JAYA: Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is sticking to his guns on the oil royalty issue, despite severe criticism from his Umno colleagues. | The former Petronas chairman maintained that Kelantan should receive cash payment...
Climate change's secret weapon Asia Times | By Khadija Sharife | The water is crystalline, the sand is whiter than white and elegantly bent palm trees sway in the breeze. This is how the Seychelles markets itself: as "another world". Tourism is the mainstay of this heavenly island, averaging...
China and India Join Climate Accord The New York Times | WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed to join the international climate change agreement reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. | The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be incl...
Rupee near 2-month peak on dollar fall; firm shares The Times Of India MUMBAI: The rupee climbed to its highest level in nearly two months on Monday, riding on a firm start to the local sharemarket and broad weakness in the dollar versus major currencies. | At 10:05 a.m. (0435 GMT), the partially convertible rupee was at 45.48/49 per dollar after hitting 45.42, its strongest since Jan. 12, and 0.3 per cent above its c...
