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Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivers his opening address during the 150th Anniversary of Standard Chartered Bank held on on Thursday Feb. 19, 2009.
(photo: AP / Wong Maye-E)
Who will support aging Japan?
Japan Times
| Under the leadership of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore more than a decade ago adopted the growth strategy of making the medical industry the core of the nation's industrial development. | Lee, the eldest son of the city state's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, known for his "developmental ...
An Afghan villager unlocks the door of a suspected homemade explosives factory for U.S. Army Spc. Timothy Rodgers in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, May 4, 2012.
(photo: US Army / Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod)
The NATO Afghan summit: Reality and illusion
Al Jazeera
| Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of negotiation, US President Barack Obama made a triumphal appearance at the Afghan Presidential Palace, on the first anniversary of the US military's brilliantly successful raid against Osama bin Laden, to mee...
Who will support aging Japan?
Japan Times
| Under the leadership of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore more than a decade ago adopted the growth strategy of making the medical industry the core of the nation's industrial development. | Lee, the eldest son of the city state's founding ...
Trade win with Malaysia spurs regional talks
The Australian
| LABOR hopes a breakthrough free trade agreement to be signed with Malaysia tomorrow - giving Australian companies unprecedented access to Asia's eighth-biggest economy - will provide momentum to negotiations on other bilateral deals across the Paci...
Cannes 2012: 'X-Factor' Australia's Ronan Keating Debuts With 'Goddess in the Marche du Film'
The Hollywood Reporter
share Getty Images The Irish musician, who made his acting debut in the film and has never been to Cannes before, joins the film's lead, Broadway star Laura Michelle Kelly, another French Riviera first-timer. | Irish popstar Ronan Keating is used to ...
NATO summit opens with Afghanistan focus
Al Jazeera
| Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have gathered in Chicago for a summit that will be dominated by the withdrawal of forces in Afghanistan. | US President Barack Obama opened the summit in his home town, Chicago, on Sunday,...
In this image from television, foreign reporters and workers in protective gear are seen at North Korea's main nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, Friday, Feb. 22, 2008.
AP / APTN
North Korea 'resuming work' on nuclear reactor
The Daily Telegraph
Satellite imagery has revealed that North Korea has resumed work on a light water reactor that analysts believe indicates Pyongyang's intention to push ahead with efforts to enrich...
South African Airways
Creative Commons / Kleinz1
SAA needs state cash to renew its fleet — Gigaba
Business Day
| South African Airways (SAA) needed to be recapitalised by the state to allow it to renew its fleet of aircraft and roll out its African aviation strategy, Public Enterprises Mini...
Gold bangle-jewellery-metal-India.
WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam
Gold hits 4-1/2 month low on Greek turmoil
The Times Of India
Tweet | SINGAPORE: Gold extended losses on Wednesday and slipped to its weakest since December after Greece's failure to form a government prompted investors to cut their exposure ...
Bunye: The Importance of Good Credit (Last of two parts)
Sun Star
| THE recent commemoration of Credit Consciousness Week (April 24 to 30, 2012) was a special opportunity to learn about the importance of good credit. | Last week, we discussed how important credit score is in personal finance. It can affect our appl...
8 diesel-feed power plants to rise in Misamis Oriental
Sun Star
| EIGHT diesel-feed power plants are expected to rise in Misamis Oriental, officials of the Misamis Oriental Rural Electric Service Cooperative (Moresco-1) in Laguindingan town said Friday. | Edelesio Arcol, Moresco-1’s president of the board of di...
Far East buyers beware in London property rush
Reuters
| LONDON (Reuters) - When Hong Kong businessman Mr. He paid a 35,000 pound ($56,000) deposit on a four-bedroom apartment in Britain, he believed it was a 40-minute walk from central London, his lawyer says. In fact it was a 40-minute journey by high-...
IMF News
The Aug. 18, 2009 file photo shows the Angela Merkel's adviser Jens Weidmann in Berlin. According to German media reports on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 Weidmann is becoming new head of the German Bundesbank.
(photo: AP / Berthold Stadler)
Europen banks warned against raising Greek risk exposure
The Times Of India
Tweet BERLIN: Central banks in Europe should not increase their exposure to Greece due to the high level of political uncertainty there, Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. | "Indeed, I would not consider it to be right for the euro system to further increase its level of risk for Greece," Weidmann ...
Debt
President of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet looks on during a news conference in Frankfurt, on Thursday, June 10, 2010. T
(photo: AP / Martin Oeser)
Europe's banks on the brink
Reuters
| LONDON, May 17 (IFR) - The euro zone crisis was in full swing when Jean-Claude Trichet took the podium in Berlin last October 6 for his final press conference as president of the European Central Bank. Having helped create one of the longest periods of price stability in the history of central banking, Trichet was closing out his eight-year reign...



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