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Boeing 737 Max 8 woes crimp Asian airlines' growth plans
Associated Press, Published on 07/05/2019
» SINGAPORE: Asian airlines are cutting routes, revamping their schedules and leasing extra aircraft to fill gaps left by the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8s after deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people.
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Strongman vies with 'people's president' to lead Indonesia
Associated Press, Published on 16/04/2019
» JAKARTA: In the final moves of Indonesia's presidential campaign, one candidate dashed to Saudi Arabia to meet its king and perform a minor pilgrimage. The other attended a feline photography exhibition and giggled with delight at a giant photo of his own pet cat.
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Stock turbulence continues, New York down again
Associated Press, Published on 08/02/2018
» NEW YORK: It was another shaky day on Wall Street as indexes rallied in the morning, bobbed up and down for much of the day, then sank in the last few minutes of trading. Energy companies dropped along with oil prices and technology companies also declined.
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Metro typifies deep economic inequalities
Business, Associated Press, Published on 07/07/2017
» CAIRO: Cairo's subway is perhaps the cheapest in the world. For a fare equivalent to 11 US cents, you can ride as far as you want across the overcrowded, traffic-choked Egyptian capital.
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Coal back on the rise in China, US, India
Associated Press, Published on 26/06/2017
» BEIJING -- The world's biggest coal users -- China, the United States and India -- have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year's record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions.
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Fed raises key US interest rate
Associated Press, Published on 15/06/2017
» WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate for the third time in six months, providing its latest vote of confidence in a slow-growing but durable economy. The Fed also announced plans to start gradually paring its bond holdings later this year, which could cause long-term rates to rise.
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Pyongyang drivers scramble as fuel stations limit services
Associated Press, Published on 22/04/2017
» PYONGYANG: Drivers in North Korea's capital are scrambling to fill up their tanks as service stations begin limiting services or even closing amid concerns of a spreading shortage.
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Chevrolet Volt arrives in China as Buick Velite 5
Business, Associated Press, Published on 20/04/2017
» SHANGHAI: General Motors Co plans to make and sell a gasoline-electric hybrid version of its Chevrolet Volt in China, as Beijing presses global automakers to promote alternatives to gasoline.
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Toyota promises better mileage with new Prius
Business, Associated Press, Published on 14/10/2015
» TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp yesterday released details for its fourth-generation Prius, promising that improvements in the battery, engine, wind resistance and weight mean better mileage for the world's top-selling hybrid car.
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$470,000 onboard crashed Indonesian plane
Associated Press, Published on 17/08/2015
» JAYAPURA, INDONESIA — A passenger plane with 54 people on board that crashed in the mountains of eastern Indonesia was carrying the equivalent of nearly a half-million US dollars in government cash for poor families to help offset a spike in fuel prices, a local postal official said Monday.
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