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Chinese pandas leave for France

Two Chinese pandas left their breeding centre in southwestern China Sunday destined for a 10-year stay in France, in a loan sealed after years of top-level negotiations.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Chinese panda loan to France kept top secret

As world leaders held frenzied talks to try to save the crisis-hit eurozone in the south of France earlier this month, the fate of two giant pandas destined for a French zoo hung in the balance.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Before the G20 summit in Cannes: IZA researchers propose concept for a global debt brake

A few days before the G20 summit in Cannes, economists from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, have proposed a global consolidation strategy of public finances. In a new IZA Policy Paper entitled ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Curbing speculation could destabilize commodity prices, study says

Price spikes for gasoline, grain and other commodities could be magnified if lawmakers curb speculative trading in futures markets, according to a new study released today in conjunction with this weekend's G20 summit.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'Acquisitions are back on': Google CEO

US Internet giant Google is ready to begin buying up other companies again as the world economy begins to recover, chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.

Technology / Business

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0