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US lawmakers demand accounting on human trafficking manipulation
Reuters, Published on 05/08/2015
» WASHINGTON - Senior US lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday about whether the State Department's annual global report on human trafficking may have been watered down due to political considerations and vowed to demand a full accounting at a Senate hearing this week.
Dying business
Business, Reuters, Published on 27/07/2015
» In the world's biggest ship recycling centre of Alang on India's Arabian Sea coast, workers with blow torches cut segments of steel stripped from the rusting hull of a towering cargo ship, sold for scrap by its Japanese owner.
US existing home sales surge in June
Business, Reuters, Published on 24/07/2015
» WASHINGTON — US home resales rose in June to their highest level in nearly 8½ years, a sign of pent-up demand that should buoy the housing market recovery and likely keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates later this year.
US Fed tells CCB to take more actions
Business, Reuters, Published on 23/07/2015
» WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday told China Construction Bank Corp to ramp up its anti-money laundering framework, the first enforcement action by the US central bank against one of China's four largest state-owned banks.
New Zealand drone makers target Hollywood
Business, Reuters, Published on 21/07/2015
» RAGLAN, New Zealand: Deep in New Zealand's dairying heartland, drone maker Aeronavics tests aircraft designed to corner the fast-growing emerging market for unmanned aerial vehicles in the film and television business.
Bangkok office occupancy rate hits record
Reuters, Published on 17/07/2015
» Despite the pall hanging over the economy, office occupancy rates in Bangkok have surged to a record.
Date set for Shell's Arctic oil drilling
Business, Reuters, Published on 01/07/2015
» SEATTLE/WASHINGTON: Royal Dutch Shell could begin drilling for oil in the Arctic off Alaska as early as the third week in July, when it expects sea ice to begin clearing, a spokesman said on Monday.
Greece reels in shock as banks shut
Reuters, Published on 29/06/2015
» ATHENS — Greeks woke up to shuttered banks, closed cash machines and a climate of rumours and conspiracy theories on Monday as a breakdown in talks between Athens and its creditors pushed the austerity-battered country to the brink.
Armed Tunisian police swarm tourist towns
Reuters, Published on 28/06/2015
» Hundreds of armed police patrolled the streets of Tunisia's beach resorts on Sunday and the government said it will deploy hundreds more inside hotels after the Islamist militant attack in Sousse that killed 39 foreigners, mostly Britons.
Aviation, hotel stocks tank on Mers, ICAO downgrade
Reuters, Published on 19/06/2015
» Shares of aviation companies and hoteliers tanked on Friday after the first confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome was confirmed in Bangkok, further dampening tourism sentiment already hit by an international aviation agency's safety rating downgrade.