NEW YORK, Dec. 23 - Oil prices jumped more than 3 percent to above 76 U.S. dollars a barrel on Wednesday as a larger-than-expected slide in fuel stockpiles and a weakening dollar boosted energy market. Crude futures in New York opened above 74 dollars on Wednesday boiled by a report from American Petroleum Institute (API). Late Tuesday, the industry group reported commercial crude oil inventories fell by 5.8 million barrels in the week ending on...more
PORT HARCOURT/YENEGOA, Nigeria, Dec 23 - Security forces have deployed in two cities in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta in the past two days to disperse former militants protesting over the non-payment of amnesty allowances. Activists say the government is not keeping the promises it made during an amnesty period earlier this year and that the region, which is home to Africa's biggest oil and gas industry, risks returning to violence. More...more
From 30th November to 9th December, 2009, Wang Quanqing, Secretary General of CBIA, traveling with China Machinery Industry Delegation to Taiwan, participated in the Meeting on Precision Machinery Cooperation and Exchange between Mainland and Taiwan and visited some corporations. The delegation is composed of 103 representatives from China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF), machine tool sector, textile machinery sector and machinery research institutions among other corporate and public organizations. The delegation was headed by Chairman Wang Ruixiang. The meeting, co-hosted by Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI) and Industrial Technology Institute, was held from 1st-2nd December in Taipei International Conference Center. Officials from Taiwan financial department and an audience of over 500 professionals from machinery sectors in China mainland and Taiwan were present. In the meeting, Chairman of CMIF, Wang Ruixiang and Director-General of TAMI, Xu Xiucang delivered keynote speeches. Other speech makers share their opinions on themes like Development Trend of Precision Machinery Industry across the Strait, How to Strength the R&D Coorperation and Mutually...more
FINDING the right outfit for a New Year's Eve party will drive fashion-savvy shoppers to spend more than $6 billion in the post-Christmas sales, the nation's peak retail industry body says. Shoppers in Victoria are expected to spend $1.67 billion during the two weeks of post-Christmas sales from Boxing Day through to early January.Clothing and...more
WASHINGTON: Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history."We are now finally poised to deliver on the promise of real, meaningful health insurance reform that will bring...more
Samung has been one of the pioneers of the mobile industry since years now. Every one expects its products to be unique and loaded with features. The technology it provides is far more advanced than provided by others. Be it camera phones, touch screen phones or regular ones, it excels in all genres. They all have got a unique style, design and on the top of it the durability factor is the most prominent.One of the most sought after Samsung mobile phones is Samsung M8910 Pixon 12. Everyone has been enticed by the handset. As the name suggests it features a 12 mega pixel camera. It offers an unbelievable camera quality. The videos have great resolution with high quality. It has 28 mm lens with xenon flash for low light conditions. With Geo-tagging feature you can remember the location of even the vaguest place that you would have visited in your trip. Sometimes shaky hands spoil the quality of the images. To put a stop on this there is image stabilisation feature. Face detection feature detects the facial expressions of the subject before clicking photos.The Samsung is a leading handset manufacturing brand across the globe. This company moves into the market with the Samsung i8910...more
You want to make business shirts. Well there are several things to consider when making shirts. You have to consider the patterns, fabrics, and notions needed to complete your shirts. Make the shirts yours by making educated choices. Consider where...more
We can safely surmise that everyday somewhere in the world, one fool falls for Internet business hoaxes, hard. This is such a sad turn of events considering that the Internet itself offers a wealth of information about the many types of online...more
UK Mortgages 2009: Competitive Dynamics in the UK Mortgage Market2008 proved to be the most challenging year in recent times for UK mortgage lenders, with the year being marked by government bailouts and consolidation. While mortgage lending reached...more
Juegos de azar son una confluencia de suerte y habilidad. Sin embargo, la suerte es la parte dominante de esta mezcla. Esto es especialmente cierto para el bingo en línea, donde la suerte unidades del juego y la suerte sólo determina el...more
Bush left office with a 32 % approval rating. The Black Jesus, the Most Important Man in History [MIMH], is currently sitting at about 45 % and declining fast. For the record Bush's popularity was over 53 % at the same point in time in both his first...more
It is a non-partisan problem. It was first encountered in 1819 in the post Napoleonic era of cheap money, zero interest rates and no money down for land all secured and promoted by government. It has been repeated perhaps half a dozen times since in...more