News tagged with trade
Cheers as Australia's carbon tax hits parliament
Cheers erupted in Australia's Parliament House after Prime Minister Julia Gillard presented her bill for a new pollution tax she hopes will help counter climate change.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Google vows cooperation in SKorea amid raid report
(AP) -- Google says it will cooperate with South Korea's antitrust regulator amid a report its local offices were raided as part of an investigation.
Sep 07, 2011 |
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South Korean regulators raid Google office: CNET
South Korean anti-trust regulators carried out a raid on Google's offices in Seoul, technology news site CNET reported.
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Malaysia seizes nearly 700 elephant tusks
Malaysian authorities have seized nearly 700 elephant tusks bound for China, an official said, the latest in a series of hauls indicating Malaysia had become a key ivory transit hub.
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Researcher finds 9/11 attacks led to new understanding of mass trauma
(PhysOrg.com) -- Out of the wreckage of the World Trade Center attacks and the events of 9/11 came some of the first large-scale research of mass trauma. The resulting findings have led to a broader understanding of how post-traumatic ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Hong Kong seizes nearly 800 smuggled elephant tusks
Hong Kong has seized nearly two tonnes of elephant ivory worth about $1.7 million hidden in a shipment from Malaysia and detained a local man over the haul, customs authorities said Wednesday.
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Hedge funds sold stocks quickly while mutual fund investors suffered larger losses during crisis
A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Aug 25, 2011 |
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WTC memorial guide of names debuts as iPhone app
(AP) -- The arrangement of nearly 3,000 names at the World Trade Center memorial is now available as a free iPhone app.
Aug 24, 2011 |
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China to appeal WTO ruling over rare earth exports
China, under pressure to relax controls over rare earths, said Wednesday it would appeal against a World Trade Organisation ruling that it illegally restricted exports of other key raw materials.
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Hong Kong arrests man over stock exchange hacking
Hong Kong police said on Friday they had arrested a 29-year-old man over a cyber attack on the city's stock exchange website which halted trading in the shares of seven companies.
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Feds likely to let Google buy Motorola Mobility
(AP) -- Federal regulators are unlikely to block Google Inc. from buying cellphone maker Motorola Mobility since the acquisition could help drive competition in the fast growing mobile device market.
Aug 16, 2011 |
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Hong Kong bourse hit by 'malicious hacking'
The Hong Kong stock exchange said Wednesday its website had been hit by "malicious hacking", forcing trading in at least seven companies that issued price-sensitive information to be suspended.
Aug 10, 2011 |
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New research questions government's policy on youth careers
The lack of strategic planning by the Government in managing recent changes in careers services has been criticised by international experts in career guidance at the University of Derby, in a new report to be published today.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Oracle to HP: Core of lawsuit 'complete fiction'
(AP) -- Oracle says a former Hewlett-Packard executive has been falsely accused of stealing trade secrets in one of several ongoing legal skirmishes between the two technology heavyweights.
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Organized crime is wiping out wildlife
A paper by noted WCS conservationist Elizabeth Bennett says that an immense, increasingly sophisticated illegal trade in wildlife parts conducted by organized crime, coupled with antiquated enforcement methods, ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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