Wheat, gold make stunning runs in nervous markets The Times Of India Tweet | NEW YORK: Wheat charged higher on Friday to post its biggest weekly gain in 16 years and gold continued its recovery from four-month lows as commodity markets saw selective buying amid lingering worries about the euro zone. | Prices of crude oil and copper -- two of the biggest industrial co...
China poses no threat to India: Pallam Raju The Hindu China posed no threat to India despite border dispute but the country was equipping itself well and having a strong deterrence posture so that no adversary took it for granted, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr M.M. Pallam Raju, said today. | “I think it is not a threat. We have a very hea...
Company apologizes for modified picture China Daily The combo shows two original photos and a modified one, published on the official website of Yuhang government in Zhejiang province. | ...
One on one with Hillary Rodham Clinton ABC News | Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke with USA TODAY earlier this week about her time at the State Department as she nears the end of her self-imposed four years there. She highlighted her travels, including her recent trip around the wor...
Old teacher keeps passion for teaching[1] China Daily A happy union of Lai and the children at Guanbu Primary School in Anyuan county, Jiangxi province, May 18, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua] | ...
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China tops India in gold demand for second quarter The Times Of India Tweet MUMBAI: China's gold demand surpassed India's for the second successive quarter, growing at an annual rate of 10% to 255.2 tonne in the January-March 2012 period while sales ...
We simply love our 'chai' The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetWe simply love our 'chai' (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) | Even as talks are on to make tea as India's national drink, the humble 'chai' has come a long...
HK stocks end 0.31 pct lower Xinhua | HONG KONG, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong stocks fell 58.90 points, or 0.31 percent, to close at 19,200.93 on Thursday. | The benchmark Hang Seng Index traded between 19,452.30 and...
Short films show strong life during fair China Daily Visitors look at new media exhibits at the eighth China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Friday. Xuan Hui / for China Daily | ...
Train rapist, robber gets life behind bars China Daily Jia Xiaoming, who committed a series of robberies and rapes in the 1990s on international trains and in Moscow, is taken to court in Beijing on Friday. Cheng Ning / for China Daily | ...
World stocks mixed amid bargain-hunting vs caution Atlanta Journal | BANGKOK — Asian stocks eked out gains Thursday as traders hunted for bargains after sharp selling in recent days, but markets in Europe fell amid intensifying fears of a messy exit by Greece from the euro common currency. More business news | Westmoreland cries foul at FDIC deals New Yorkers defrauded Atlantans Delta: Glitch caused fare woe...
China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term Denver Post | BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight. | The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Lai Changxing was convicted and sentence...
