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Canon Store for Cameras
Business   China   Industry   Market   Photos   		 China Daily 
Canon says China may become top camera market in 2015
Wed 10 Mar 2010
| Canon Inc expects China's camera market to become the world's largest as early as 2015, overtaking the US, its head of the business said. | Canon, the world's biggest camera maker, is doubling the n... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Cigarette Smoking
Cigarettes   India   Industry   Investment   Photos   		 The Times Of India 
Govt may ban FDI in cigarette making
Wed 10 Mar 2010
| NEW DELHI: Government is all set to ban foreign direct investment (FDI) in cigarette manufacturing. A cabinet note towards this end has been prepared by the commerce and industry ministry and circul... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Toyota Supra MKIV from the en:2 Fast 2 Furious movie.  The Daily Tribune  Wed 10 Mar 2010
The Toyota myth is shattered
| ZOOMING IN | 03/10/2010 | With the quickening pace of technological advance and the globalization-induced intensification of international competitiveness during the 20th Century’s second half and t... (photo: Creative Commons / Simon Davison)
Automaker   Business   Japan   Photos   US  
Brokers are seen at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, central Germany, on Friday, June 27, 2008.  The New York Times  Wed 10 Mar 2010
Euro Unity? It's Germany That Matters
| PARIS — Ten years after the euro, it’s still all about Germany, which isn’t the way it was supposed to be. | In the run-up to the common currency’s debut in 1999, the air was... (photo: AP / Daniel Roland)
Euro   Finance   Germany   Paris   Photos  
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Shanghai has been a political hub of China since the 20th century. The 1st National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. In addition, many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s. Asia Times Wed 10 Mar 2010
US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise
| By Peter J Brown | The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and ... (photo: Creative Commons / Naus)
Asian   China   Economy   Photos   US  
A currency trader smiles in front of a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Asia Times Wed 10 Mar 2010
South Korea back on track
| By Robert M Cutler | MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery p... (photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon)
Business   Economy   Exports   Photos   S Korea  
A Eurostar train enters the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France, in this Nov. 21, 1996 file photo. Anglo-French tunnel operator Eurotunnel reported a euro1.89 billion (US$2.36 billion) net loss in 2003 on Monday, Feb. 9, 2004 and said it had appealed to the French and British governments to allow for a rate cut to help boost traffic. The New York Times Wed 10 Mar 2010
Eurotunnel Ekes Out Profit for 2009 Despite Disasters
| PARIS — Eurotunnel Group said Tuesday that it managed to make a profit in 2009, despite lingering repercussions from a 2008 fire and the disastrous breakdown of E... (photo: AP / Michel Spingler, file)
Business   Company   Disaster   Photos   Transport  
File:Woodbury house 01.jpg The Press Democrat Tue 9 Mar 2010
Soaring China home prices thwart ordinary buyers
| Yang and many other young Chinese are finding their aspirations thwarted by an overheated property market that is enriching already wealthy speculators, local officials... (photo: Public Domain / Jrcla2)
China   Economy   Housing   Market   Photos  
Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, USA, Rupert Murdoch gestures while speaking during a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009. Business participants will search for solutions to the financial crisis with some 40 world leaders, but without the top finance officials of the new U.S. administration who are occupied by the crisis or by the confirmation process at h The Boston Globe Tue 9 Mar 2010
Murdoch to Arabs: censorship is counterproductive
| ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday called censorship counterproductive and urged Arab leaders to allow their citizens the freedom to unleash thei... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
Arab   Business   Censorship   Emirates   Photos  


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President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece in the Oval Office, March 9, 2010. Greek PM meets Obama over crisis Al Jazeera
President-elect Barack Obama was about to walk out to take the oath of office. Backstage at the U.S. Capitol, he took one last look at his appearance in the mirror. Obama using 'bounty hunters' for health care fraud Khaleej Times
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An Emirati man takes snap of a model of the Burj Khalifa , the world's tallest building in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. UAE economy expected to expand 3.2 percent in 2010 Daily Star Lebanon
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The Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, . Govt to borrow more from market in H1 of 2010-11 The Times Of India
The Minister of State of Communications and Information Technology, Shri Sachin Pilot addressing a press conference, at Itanagar on February 03, 2010. Broadband in every Indian village soon The Siasat Daily
President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece in the Oval Office, March 9, 2010. Greek PM meets Obama over crisis Al Jazeera
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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Feb. 23, 2009. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1 Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range The New York Times
A Eurostar train enters the Channel Tunnel in Calais, northern France, in this Nov. 21, 1996 file photo. Anglo-French tunnel operator Eurotunnel reported a euro1.89 billion (US$2.36 billion) net loss in 2003 on Monday, Feb. 9, 2004 and said it had appealed to the French and British governments to allow for a rate cut to help boost traffic. Eurotunnel Ekes Out Profit for 2009 Despite Disasters The New York Times
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