 Wall Street Journal (blog) By Simon Zekaria SABMiller's normally ebullient South-African born Chief Executive Graham Mackay painted a bleak picture of the Western World Thursday morning. As the London and Johannesburg-based global brewing giant posted its first-half results, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| America's New Cold War With China Huffington Post (blog) An increased emphasis on China's systemic human rights violations will provide a liberal rationale for the new global competition. Just as some might wonder what the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization is doing in Afghanistan, one might wonder what the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| India, US looking to counter China at Asian summit GlobalPost (blog) Shown here linking hands for a publicity shot during the opening of the 19th summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the leaders and representatives of ASEAN may be poised to take on greater importance as Obama reboots America's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US, China role play for ASEAN Asia Times Online By Donald K Emmerson NUSA DUA, INDONESIA - Southeast Asian policymakers looking north to the Asian mainland and east across the Pacific Ocean see two major, different, and complementary assets to their region: China's biggest-in-the-worldeconomy and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Airlines face East-West fight Asia Times Online East to West flights have traditionally been dominated by full-service Western carriers. Singapore Airlines, frequently ranked as the world's best premium airline, in April launched a new long-haul budget carrier known as Scoot. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| South Africa's Incredibly Shrinking Gold Production Daily Markets (press release) The latest Gold Demand Trends Report from the World Gold Council (WGC) contained two salient visuals of how the dynamics of the global gold market have shifted from theWest to the East over the past 40 years. Today we'll take a look at supply, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Africa Can Feed the World . . . Wall Street Journal Last year, our government approved the commercial planting of genetically modified crops, becoming the fourth African country to do so after Burkina Faso, Egypt andSouth Africa. This will give our farmers access to one of the world's most important ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Global Note: “Hear The Screams”…Europe: The Fears Return…Opening In ... ABC News (blog) The Arab League's latest ultimatum demands that Syrian President Assad stop the violence within three days, and allow League monitors to visit the country. But it's not clear that the “or else” is particularly potent, or that Assad is in a mood to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| OWS: Too Big to Fail Bay Area Indymedia by Stephen Lendman An idea whose time has come resonates globally. November 17 marked two months since beginning in New York. Earlier Middle East and European protests inspired it. Now it's spreading everywhere across North and South America, Europe, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Power Down National Journal Revolution is sweeping the Middle East, the world's energy basket. Revisionist powers (Russia) and perennial outliers (Iran, North Korea) sense opportunity and new room to maneuver. “If a unipolar moment ever really existed, it's not just passed, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| West, Russia compromise on Iran nuke resolution CBS News Wide support is crucial at board meetings, which strive to work by consensus, and the diplomat said such broad support will send a strong signal of world concern to Iran. Avoiding a big power split along East-West lines is taking on increased urgency ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| South Asia's water The Economist The scarcity of water in South Asia will become harder to manage as demand rises.South Asia's population of 1.5 billion is growing by 1.7% a year, says the World Bank, which means an extra 25m or so mouths to water and feed: imagine dropping North ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Students need to stand with Palestinians Daily Illini How shameful if Rosa Parks knew of the Israeli Egged and the French Veolia bus companies, both of which operate numerous segregated lines running through the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The companies are involved in Jerusalem Light Rail, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| A review of real economic developments across SA, Africa & the world Creamer Media's Engineering News The Africa Oil Week conference was dominated by talk of East Africa as the new oil and gas frontier, with analysts also saying there is a scramble to explore terrain and untapped potential in parts of West Africa. [ADD PIC OF NAMIBIA] UN CLIMATE FUND... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Drama lessons: The traveller's guide to natural wonders The Independent Further north, Monument Valley, pictured below, is a postcard of the American West, its fame encapsulated by the weathered buttes – such as the East and West Mittens – that dot its surface. Bon Voyage (0800 316 3012; bon-voyage.co.uk) sells a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| GMM foundation to be launched in January Malaysia Star Now is the time to build a new, progressive vision of East and West standing side by side, learning from each other and facing the challenges of the modern world with a united front. Because together we are stronger, and out of many, we are one. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The New Rules: How to Stop Worrying and Live with the Iranian Bomb World Politics Review 2. The world's rising powers are not on board with the West. Brazil and Turkey made their diplomatic play last spring, and the West vilified them in response. Russia has already dismissed more sanctions as a clear “instrument of regime change. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Quietly, the US Embarks on an East Asia Offensive TIME (blog) Strategically, maintaining peace and security across the Asia-Pacific is increasingly crucial to global progress, whether through defending freedom of navigation in the SouthChina Sea, countering the proliferation efforts of North Korea, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 2015: How S/East can get the presidency – Egolum Vanguard Back to Chukwumerije, he averred that the South-West got the presidency through struggle with groups like the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC); the South-South via the activities of Niger Delta militants; and now the North was angling for it through Boko ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Making the most of wellness tourism Bangkok Post Spiritual & holistic services are set to be the most important assets and demand components of the health and wellness sector in the Far East and South East Asia by 2020, according to a research report distributed at the World Travel Market 2011 here ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Small-Cap Energy Exploration Picks By The World's Largest Fund Managers Seeking Alpha In this article, via an analysis (based on the latest available institutional 13-F filings) of the investing activities of these world's largest fund managers managing between $100 billion and over a trillion dollars, we identify the small-cap oil and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 10% Of People Worldwide Will Have Diabetes By 2030 Medical News Today Only 4.5% of global diabetes expenditure is spent in this region. 12.4 million people in Brazil have diabetes. 11.2 million people in Central and South America with diabetes do not know about their diabetes status. In South East Asia there are 71.4 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Go for the Gold: Metal to Rise as Financial Tactics Fail NewsMax.com Demand has shifted from west (North America and Europe) to East (India, China) as economic liberalization has increased. Demand for gold has been exercised more readily due to a more stable environment: greater market access, more flexible products, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Landmines hamper Iraq oil boom, delay investment Reuters "Until now we have managed to defuse around 8900 landmines and unexploded ordnance from Rumaila North and South ... we have cleared around 45 million square meter of Rumaila," said Nawaf Abdulla, head of operations at Arab Gulf. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Global temperatures 8th warmest on record for October NOAA Cooler-than-average regions included the southeastern United States, most of southern and western South America, parts of Algeria and Libya, part of Eastern Europe, and far southeast Asia. The global ocean surface temperature was 0.70 F (0.39 C) above ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| EPD, BUD, VCI, CRK, DLB - Crucial Stocks to Observe at Opening Bell Retirement Planning The Company operates in seven segments: North America, Latin America North, Latin America South, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific and GlobalExport & Holding Companies. On February 28, 2011, the Company closed a transaction with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| VTech Announces 2011/2012 Interim Results MarketWatch (press release) Revenue from ELPs in Asia Pacific was US$10.5 million in the first half of the financial year 2012, a 7.1% increase from the same period last year. This growth was broad-based over most South-East Asian countries and China. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NYSE Hot Stocks to watch are - AGCO, PWE, WYN, WEC, NVE Retirement Planning The Company operates through four segments: North America; South America; Europe/Africa/Middle East, and Rest of World. The Rest of World reportable segment includes the regions of Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Week in Review theTrumpet.com North Korea helping Iran with nuclear program: Hundreds of North Korean scientists are helping Iran with its nuclear program, according to reports published by Japanese andSouth Korean newspapers, citing information from anonymous diplomats. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Delphi Trading Debut Stalls Wall Street Journal Its customers include the 25 largest auto makers in the world; it operates 110 manufacturing facilities and 15 technology centers that are regionally based to serveglobal customers from low-cost manufacturing countries. In 2010, 24% of its net sales... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Titan Machinery Announces International Expansion MarketWatch (press release) Titan Machinery Inc., founded in 1980 and headquartered in West Fargo, North Dakota, is a multi-unit business with mature locations and newly-acquired locations. The Company owns and operates a network of full service agricultural and construction ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Terex at Citi North American Credit Conference Call Transcript Seeking Alpha From a geographic look, you'll see that we're pretty balanced in terms of the three major geographies with North America, Western Europe and the rest of the world. The other category is growing pretty rapidly. I mentioned the Australian mining exposure ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Oil prices surge on pipeline plans by Enbridge, TransCanada Vancouver Sun Energy consultancy IHS CERA predicts 300000 additional barrels per day of oil a year will move into the North American marketplace in the next five years, much of which Calgary-based global oil director Jackie Forrest says will come from Canada's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gold Bullion Releases Significant Historic Hole With Granada Drilling Update PR Newswire (press release) Gold Bullion's originally-defined LONG Bars zone of 600 metres long by 300 metres wide, striking east-west and dipping approximately 50° to the north, has been increased 6 fold to approximately 1500 metres long by 750 metres wide. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Asia is now more important to our economy than Europe: US Zimbabwe Metro The American debt crisis last August did nothing but intensified global opinions on that the US is a declining power. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Standard Chartered Plc both predicted last year that China will surpass the US as the world's largest ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The inevitable eviction of OWS Reuters Blogs (blog) I would go south and west and he would go north and east but we would both try to find the inevitable point where the demonstrators would gather to regroup. That point would ultimately be on Broadway, to the south of the park. On the same street, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Qatar Airways orders two Boeing 777 freighters at Dubai Air Show AME Info The south western Chinese city of Chongqing becomes Qatar Airways' final new route of 2011 - its fifth gateway in China from November 28. On February 1, Qatar Airways begins scheduled flights to Baku and Tbilisi, the capital cities of Azerbaijan and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Great Recession, the Arab Spring and the euro crisis show how global ... Salon this much can be safely said: the ongoing Arab upheaval is sweeping from that region of the world the last vestiges of Western imperialism. Europeans created the modern Middle East with a single purpose in mind: to serve European interests. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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