Month: September 2009

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Beijing is drawing up plans to prohibit or restrict exports of rare earth metals that are produced only in China and play

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they would

Undercover armed Americans are swarming the Pakistani capital in the latest sign that the elected government has allowed Washington to dispatch what is believed to

Are you planning to get vaccinated against the H1N1 virus (also known as swine flu) this fall? Response    Percent        Votes Yes               23%     

By Linda Sieg Japan’s next leader Yukio Hatoyama, fresh from a historic election win, faced the task on Monday of forming a government to tackle

Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may unilaterally terminate derivative contracts with six foreign banks that provide over-the-counter commodity hedging services, a leading financial magazine said. China’s