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Climate Change - Environment - Weather
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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...
Alberta oil gas drilling well
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Canada looks to China to exploit oil sands rejected by US
The Guardian
| Canada courts Chinese investment in Alberta oil projects as US firms boycott tar sands fuel | Canada looks to China to exploit its Alberta oil sands projects as US firms boycott the fuel produced there. Photograph: Orjan F. Ellingvag/ Dagens Naringsliv/© Orjan F. Ellingvag/ Dagens Naringsliv/Corb...
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, ...
First Supply Contract For Asiaflex Products, Technip’s New Flexible Pipe Plant In Malaysia
Subsea World
Technip has been awarded by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) a flexible pipe supply contract for the Lufeng 13-1/13-2 oil fields, located in the South China Sea. | Technip's operating center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will execute ...
The President lays out his priorities for getting people to work and bolstering the middle class in his State of the Union Address.
White House / Pete Souza
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...
Filipino men standing in a side walk while waiting for public utility vehicles along Roxas Boulevard , Manila City , Philippines , March 7 , 2009.
WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
Australia expects entry of more Filipino workers as economy recovers
Inquirer
| Most Read Business Bidding for SCTEx contract fails Why locally sold cars are still better than grey-market options Licensed to shout Moody's raises outlook on RP banks Clark air...
The Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Murli Deora addressing  at the Golden Jubilee celebration of Lunej Oil Well of ONGC, at Lunej (Cambay Basin) in Gujarat on October 05, 2008.
PIB of India
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...
Oil & Gas
Su Wei, chief negotiator of China on climate change, makes a point during his press conference at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.
(photo: AP / Heribert Proepper)
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...
Offshore Investments
Rupee - Currency - India
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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...



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