Global race on to match US drone capabilities
Washington Post
No country has ramped up its research in recent years faster than China. It displayed a drone model for the first time at the Zhuhai air show five years ago, but now every major manufacturer for the Chinese military has a research center devoted to ...
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Int'l relations: Time to ride the Indonesian wave
Jakarta Post
Stable economic growth in recent years and a leading position in regional organizations are factors counted. The country has also been mentioned in the latest World Bank Global Development Horizons Report to be one of the major contributors to global ...
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Global survey names VIC as top spot for oil and gas investment
Gas Today
The Fraser Institute surveyed 478 of the world's top oil and gas companies who together accounted for more than 60 per cent of upstream oil and gas exploration expenditure last year. The survey result comes in the wake of recent figures from the ...
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Marketplace Globalist Quiz: The World's Largest Urban Economy
The Globalist
The only other European city to feature in the world's top ten urban economies is Paris, whose 1.43% share of global GDP ranks it in sixth place. Japan has been foremost in people's minds in recent months due to the earthquake and tsunami disasters, ...
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RI remains among world's top LNG exporters
Jakarta Post
BP's chief economist, Christof Ruhl, said the policy was a brilliant choice and would ease pressure from soaring global oil prices and fuel Indonesia's rapidly growing industries in the future. “Building liquefied natural gas-receiving terminals to ...
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Investors and Analysts Define the Best and Worst of European IR
PR Newswire (press release)
XbInsight is IR magazine's research brand, building on the publication's established global research efforts. Since 1991, IR magazine has taken its renowned investor perception study around the world, to markets as diverse as Brazil, China, Singapore, ...
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UQ ranks highly in final QS subject rankings tranche
UQ News
The University of Queensland has confirmed its place as one of the top one per cent of world universities in the final results of the first QS Global ranking of universities by subjects released today. UQ was ranked one of the world's top universities ...
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Warren Buffet's Top 5 Holdings: Are They Right for You?
Seeking Alpha
Coca-Cola Company (KO) is a leading global beverage manufacturer. The company sells over 3000 beverage products in over 200 countries around the world. On a global basis, sparkling beverages make up roughly 80% of Coco-Cola's unit case volume sales. ...
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US: Born on the 4th of July, deadbeat on 3rd of August?
Globe and Mail
Here's how things look to Robert Kavcic of BMO Nesbitt Burns: "Canadian stocks ... have lost some lustre relative to their global peers, particularly those in the US The TSX was among the worst performing major global equity indices in the first half ...
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Gold is best debt-crises defense — just not yet
MarketWatch
Indeed, the current global landscape is fraught with so many cross-currents that calculating potential causalities is becoming less of a science and much more of an art. In the US, failure to raise the debt ceiling will end the country's ability to ...
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Qatar ranked above India, China in innovation index
Economic Times
DUBAI: Qatar has been ranked 26th in the Global Innovation Index, securing the highest position in the Middle East ahead of even the world's two largest emerging economies China (29) and India (62). The report, prepared jointly by business school ...
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Indonesian Conference To Push For Sustainable Cocoa Production Association
NASDAQ
Major global chocolate makers such as Mars Inc., Nestle SA (NSRGY), Hershey Co. (HSY), and Cadbury (CDSCY) are among those who are already promoting the use of cocoa certified under labels such as the Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade and UTZ Certified. ...
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Japanese presence at Singapore international water expo surges
Mainichi Daily News
"We have the largest Japanese pavilion this year," Michael Toh, managing director of the Singapore International Water Week, said. The annual event, which is being held for the fourth time, is fast gaining momentum as one of the world's top ...
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Top badminton comp comes to Sydney
Ninemsn
'Fowl' experienceBilly Law is first top ten MasterChef contestant to be sent home. Final destinationThe Crusaders have landed in Brisbane for Saturday's showdown. Snow report VIDEO: All the latest from the snow fields around the country. ...
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US strategy to narrow focus on home threat
The Australian
John Brennan, US President Barack Obama's top terrorism adviser, recently highlighted the final image of Osama bin Laden seen around the world: "An old terrorist, alone, hunched over in a blanket, flipping through old videos of a man and a movement ...
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CARL SCHRAMM: Boom has come for world's bottom half too
Business Day
Constantly pushing those boundaries, asking radical questions and prodding policymakers to get out of the way is what entrepreneurs do. The best of global entrepreneurship is yet to come. • Schramm is president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation.
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Global Logistics News: Will US Global Trade Increasingly Move Through Gulf Ports?
Supply Chain Digest
Many countries in Latin and South America are among the world's fastest growing economies, and overall growth was 6.1% last year, much faster than most of the developed world. As evidence of this shift, in recent years Brazil has risen to become the ...
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Maths 'best third level subject'
Irish Times
Mathematics is Ireland's best performing third level discipline,a global university ranking of subjects has found. Trinity College Dublin is ranked 15th in the world for mathematics, the QS World University Rankings by subject show. ...
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Attracting oil investment
Oil & Gas Journal
Mississippi is the world's most attractive place in the world for oil and gas investment, according to a new survey. The Fraser Institute, a Calgary-based think tank, last week released its annual Global Petroleum Survey, which asks the opinions of ...
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US program has reached a plateau
SI.com
We saw it repeatedly in World Cup qualifying, as so many sluggish starts left matches in bad places. We saw recent friendlies against Argentina and Spain where the US was utterly overwhelmed, never mind playing at home. The real pressure point, ...
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Special Report: Ethylene Report: Global ethylene producers add record capacity ...
Oil & Gas Journal
Global ethylene producers last year added more than 8.6 million tonnes/year (tpy) of capacity, according to the latest Oil & Gas Journal's survey of the industry. That level sets a record for 1-year additions. New capacities at three Middle East plants ...
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World stocks at 4-1/2 week high, risk back in favor
Buenos Aires Herald
World stocks hit a 4-1/2 week high as investors grew confident over global economic prospects after Greece avoided an early debt default and data pointed to a moderate slowdown in China's growth. European share prices were flat today and on course to ...
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Greenland Group Announces Construction Plans for the World's Third Tallest ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Wuhan Greenland Center will become one of the world's top-500 high-end commercial spaces. Adrian Smith, AS + GG co-founder, one of the architectural design firms, has been in the construction industry for over 40 years. Some of the world's most ...
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China's Answer to Anthony Weiner: A New Wave of Digital Political Sex Scandals
TIME
By Zhang Yilan / Economic Observer / Worldcrunch Monday, July 04, 2011 "This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published ...
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New US counter-terrorism strategy focuses more on homeland security
People's Daily Online
The international financial crisis over recent years has further weakened the hard and soft power of the Untied States. US politicians and the masses are both deeply aware that the country's top agenda is to revive the economy and to cope with ...
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