Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf defends governance record Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency, following an independent audit that cast doubt on her anti-corruption efforts. | She said a recent audit of resource contracts by accounting firm Moore Step...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX pushes higher as energy gains soften dip in golds Reuters * TSX rises 49.73 points, or 0.40 percent, to 12,557.33 * Nine of 10 main sectors advance * Suncor gains 2 percent to play market's biggest positive influence * Fed warns BMO on anti-money laundering; stock up By John Tilak TORONTO, May 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose on Friday as posi...
Hope and Time Running Out Or Trapped Freeport Workers Scoop Monday, 20 May 2013, 10:10 am | Press Release: The Jakarta Post | Hope and Time Running Out Or Trapped Freeport Workers | About 23 PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) workers were still trapped in a landslide at the Bog Gossan training facility at the compa...
Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines NZ Herald Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. | Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to th...
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Lonmin South Africa workers strike, raise fears of mine unrest The Star MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - South African workers of world No. 3 platinum producer Lonmin launched a wildcat strike on Tuesday, halting all of the company's mine operations ...
Aussie stocks higher on budget day Canberra Times Visit BusinessDay's special federal budget page for all the latest news | The Australian sharemarket has opened slightly higher despite weakness among major resources stocks. | IG ...
Hong Kong has world's most expensive retail space: report The Guardian By Ilaina Jonas | NEW YORK (Reuters) - There's expensive and then there's Hong Kong. | The Asian shopping haven in the first quarter kept its crown as having the world's highest re...
Alternative energy fuels hopes for Pea Ridge mine STL Today Never mind the lawsuits, regulatory hurdles and competing against the Chinese. Jim Kennedy is plotting a comeback for the mine he used to own in eastern Missouri. | The St. Louis-area developer was forced to sell the now shuttered Pea Ridge Mine in W...
A mixed picture The Hindu Economic data released over the past two weeks send out confusing signals. The IIP data (index of industrial production) for March 2013, released on May 10, was on the face of it, positive. It showed industrial production growing by 2.5 per cent on a...
Sensex up 85 points; Oil & gas, healthcare stocks jump The Hindu Domestic markets were trading higher by over 0.4 per cent in the late morning session on Thursday led by oil & gas, healthcare, banking and PSU stocks amid mixed Asian cues. | At 10.50 a.m., the 30-share BSE index Sensex was up 85.19 points (0.42 per cent) at 20,298.15 and the 50-share NSE index Nifty was up 33.8 points (0.55 per cent) at 6,180...
