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China Minsheng Bank will aim to raise up to $4.68bn through Hong Kong’s largest initial public offering this year in a move that should solidify China’s dominant position in the global IPO market. The country’s first privately owned lender will on Monday...
Tags: U.S, Hong Kong, China Life Insurance Co, public offering, China Minsheng Banking Corp., China Bank, initial public, jobs data, stock market
Iraq's bickering politicians finally agreed today on a new election law, paving the way for crucial national elections to take place in January and for the drawdown of U.S. troops to proceed as scheduled. The head of Iraq's election commission, Faraj...
Tags: Iraqi Council of Representatives, Iraq Hillary Rodham Clinton, elections law, national elections, Barack Obama, U.S, national vote, combat force
Taipei, Nov. 8 (CNA) Although Taiwan is set to lift its restrictions on U.S. beef imports on the basis of a recent protocol between the two countries, Taiwan importers are being turned off by costs and the complicated paperwork required to bring in ground...
Tags: Taiwan, U.S, beef importers, ground beef, Taipei
Afghanistan yesterday," the press release said. Giving details, the press release added that one U.S. service member was killed in an insurgent attack in western Afghanistan. However, it added this event was not related to the ongoing search operation...
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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:51:12 GMT Font size : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Western powers are concerned about Tehran's steady progress in becoming energy independent rather than its alleged potential to build a nuclear bomb. "The [Western]...
Tags: Iran, Bank Mellat, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iraqi, Berlin Wall, Tehran Province Commercial Organization, Cuba, Afghanistan, U.S, Obama
Badghis the previous day mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen. Afghan authorities were investigating whether an alliance airstrike during an operation Friday...
Tags: U.S, afghans soldiers, Afghanistan, NATO Airstrike Killed, afghans security, NATO Air Strike Kills, Badghis, security forces, friendly fire, badghis province
Senate has cut spending earmarked in a fiscal 2010 budget bill for the relocation of 8,000 Marines from Okinawa to Guam by 70%, congressional sources said Friday. The sharp cut from about $300 million earmarked for the transfer of the Marines comes at...
A British-born Florida yacht broker and former client of Swiss bank UBS AG received a reduced, two month prison sentence for tax fraud on Friday because he cooperated with a sweeping U.S. Robert Moran, a 58-year-old U.S. citizen who was born in Leicester,...
Tags: U.S, UBS AG, South Florida, Robert Moran, yacht broker, florida yacht
AES, the Arlington, Va.-based power generating company, said Friday that it would raise capital for new projects by selling a 15 percent stake in the company to a unit of China's sovereign wealth fund for $1.6 billion. AES said the China Investment Corp....
Tags: AES Corp., China Investment Corp., percent stake, generation businesses, U.S, CIC
U.S. stocks rose on Friday as investors took heart after the government said monthly payroll losses slowed, even as unemployment rose above 10 percent. General Electric Co shares jumped more than 5 percent after a brokerage upgrade, and helped lead the...
Tags: brokerage upgrades, U.S, sector higher, General Electric Co, industrial sector