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ADB agrees $400 mn deal for Uzbek gas plant
AFP, Published on 25/01/2012
» The Asian Development Bank said Wednesday it has approved a loan and political risk guarantee of up to $400 million for a project to build Uzbekistan's largest-ever petrochemical plant.
Jobless US rails at globalisation
News, Published on 25/01/2012
» It is an election year in the United States of America and the world's biggest economic engine is barely puttering, indeed often sputtering. The next link in this series of events is as predictable as the rainy season in these parts. President Barack Obama and the opposition Republican Party candidates already are in full cry: "Blame the foreigners." A variety of slogans already appearing on the US election campaign trail clearly present the message we will be hearing from now through November, and probably beyond.
Thawee pushes for peace by recompense
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 25/01/2012
» Thawee Sodsong believes a new, friendly strategy of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre will succeed in quelling the violence and silence the critics who fear it will only inflame the situation in the restive deep South.
Cabinet scraps recovery projects worth B5.3bn
News, Published on 25/01/2012
» The government has eliminated 5.3 billion baht in projects that are part of its flood recovery, prevention and compensation scheme.
Balanced budget pledge to be kept
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 25/01/2012
» Kittiratt Na-Ranong, deputy prime minister and newly appointed finance minister, vowed to maintain a target set by the government's economic agencies to reach a balanced budget within the next four years.
PM vows to protect lese majeste law
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/01/2012
» The government will not amend the controversial lese majeste law, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday.
Fresh attack on police in troubled Nigeria's Kano city
AFP, Published on 24/01/2012
» Gunmen threw explosives and opened fire at a police station in a fresh attack in Nigeria's embattled city of Kano on Tuesday, residents said, four days after coordinated bombings and shootouts killed 185 people there.
State Railway: Land rich but loses money
Jon Fernquest, Published on 23/01/2012
» State enterprise with worst financial performance finally reports on assets, liabilities & losses. Essential step in restructuring for efficiency.
Statehood takes a back seat to bogeyman
News, Imtiaz Muqbil, Published on 22/01/2012
» Thailand's recognition of the right to an independent Palestine is a great step forward, but unfortunately it has been overshadowed by the arrest of an Arab man and the surrounding anti-Islam hysteria
Coordinated attacks, gun battles kill 162 in Nigerian city
AFP, Published on 21/01/2012
» Bomb attacks targeting security forces and gun battles killed at least 162 people in Nigeria's second-largest city of Kano, where bodies littered the streets on Saturday, sources said.