Serbia’s relations with the EU and the U.S. have passed a historical turning point, said U.S. professor and NATO and EU expert Charles Kupchan.
Kupchan has assessed that “key event for this change of course was resolution of the UN General Assembly,†daily Politika writes.
A Pew report finds that people mostly research health questions offline. But a high number of people in their 20s access health information on their mobile devices. – A
new report
from the Pew Internet amp; American Life Project and the California HealthCare
Foundation shows that Americans still go mostly offline for health resources,
but the numbers are higher for adults in their 20s.
Pew
has reported that 96 percent of people ages 18 to 29 have a cell …
Singapore shares in broad-based advance following rally on Wall Street, enabling STI to set new year-to-date high of 3,043 in early trade, says Dow Jones.
Benchmark last +0.4% at 3,035.82, with resistance expected at lower end of 3,085–3,146 breakdown gap formed June 9, 2008.
“There is enough underlying momentum being generated to be more positive than negative about the future,” says Phillip Securities economist Joshua Tan, “with the latest 2Q10 advance estimate of the US economy, in our opinion, showing that the glass is half full, we think a severe slowdown or second-dip risk is greatly diminished.”
Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos says he expects the EU-W. Balkans conference to represent the turning point in the EU integration of this part of the Balkans. The conference is planned for June 2 in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
The tide is now turning towards real financial reform:In a major development, Senator Harry Reid is now supporting breaking up the giant banks and auditing the FedNumber two Senate majority leader, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), came out Tuesday in favor o…
Alex Reid has dismissed reports claiming his wife Jordan is trying to make him resemble her ex Peter Andre.
The cross dressing cage fighter was referring to his latest look on Alan Carr: Chatty Man when he said the glamour girl had no such intentions.
“My new look on Alan Carr’’s show the other week got a [...]
Manufacturing is growing again in most big economies
SURVEYS of purchasing managers indicate that manufacturing industries in most of the world’s big economies are growing. In big emerging economies such as Brazil, China and India, the indices compiled by Markit, a provider of financial information, were well above 50 in January, indicating robust growth. In each of those countries manufacturing was still shrinking in January 2009. There has also been a pronounced turnaround in America, where the Institute for Supply Management’s index for January was 58.4, in contrast to 35.5 in January 2009. Manufacturing is also expanding in Germany, France and Britain. But it is still shrinking in Greece and Spain, though much less markedly than a year earlier.
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With Al Qaeda pushed into Pakistan’s tribal areas, Islamabad risks slipping into radical hands as it was already home to the terrorist group’s leadership, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned Friday.
“We know that Pakistan matters not just because it is the location for the Afghanistan Taliban leadership; it is also important in its own right,” [...]
The Japanese government is discussing an option to strip debt-ridden Japan Airlines (JAL) of its international operations to enable it to survive as a domestic carrier, a newspaper reported on Thursday. It calls for rival All Nippon Airways (ANA) to take over JAL’s international flights as
A UN report suggests that striking progress is being made in the fight against AIDS
ALL epidemics run their course. AIDS will be no exception. But concerted action can give them a helping hand to the finish line, and the latest report from the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS, the two United Nations agencies charged with tackling the epidemic, claims that is what is happening.
The most important figure in the report, which was published on Tuesday November 24th, is 17%. This is the estimated drop in the annual number of new infections compared with 2001, the year that the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed. The biggest proportionate fall, 25%, has been in East Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease is most rampant, the decline is estimated at 15%. That corresponds to 400,000 fewer African infections in 2008 than in 2001, though 1.9m Africans are still becoming infected each year. …
In most of Europe moderate leftists are having a bad recession—but things look more promising for them elsewhere
WHEN George Papandreou, the Greek opposition leader and president of the Socialist International—a global association of centre-left parties—convened the latest of his summer talkfests on the shores of the Aegean, the mood was upbeat. Veterans of the annual gathering said it was the cheeriest they could recall.
But the reasons for the optimism blowing in the pine-scented air were mainly local: after struggling for several years to rally discontent with Greece’s ruling conservatives, Mr Papandreou is now doing well in the opinion polls. He has a good chance, some time over the next year, of becoming prime minister, following in the trail of his liberal grandfather and firebrand father. …
Whitney Houston’s former husband Bobby Brown has laid the blame on the singer for his drug addiction.
The singer talks about how his 14-year marriage turned into a nightmare of addictions in his explosive tome “Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But…â€
“I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney. Before then, I [...]
Faisal Al Suwaidi has become a victim of his own success in creating a worldwide market for liquid natural gas
RED flames shimmer behind a thick shroud of smoke at the Ras Laffan gas plant in Qatar. Methane from the bottom of the Persian Gulf is part-combusted and filtered in a spaghetti-like tangle of steel pipes. Further along, the gas is cooled in bulbous storage tanks to minus 160°C, turning it into liquid and reducing it to one-six-hundredth of its original volume, ready to be sent across the oceans aboard a new generation of supercarriers. Local officials boast that the plant will be the largest structure made by man in centuries when it is finished next year. Already it produces a quarter of the world’s liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Ras Laffan is a singular industrial success, but that was no foregone conclusion. It would not have been built without one man taking a gamble. Faisal Al Suwaidi, the boss of Qatargas, wagered a decade ago that a massive boost in production would create a market large enough for his country’s main asset, the world’s biggest known gasfield. When it was discovered in 1971, Qataris were dismayed. Mr Suwaidi, who got his first job in the petroleum industry the following year, remembers there being a lingering disappointment that gas, not oil, had been found in the vast offshore North Field. Nobody traded gas then. Later a regional market developed in eastern Asia, with Japan and South Korea buying LNG from gas-rich Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, but gas remained oil’s underachieving younger sibling, lacking a global market. …
Weekend Comment July 23: Turning point for China stocks
This happens when M1 growth is running faster than the monetary base and when M1 is growing faster than real industrial production, a measure of excess liquidity. The Shanghai Composite is now up 8.8% from its Jul 5 low of 2,363 although it is still down 21% year-to-date.
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