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| Tackling Poverty |
 IT is tempting to wonder how much
of an appetite Barack Obama will
have for dinner on Thursday
evening (17May). That afternoon,
ahead of the two-day meeting of
the G8 at Camp David, which kicks off
on Friday, he will announce what is currently
being called "the new alliance to
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| A MARKET
SOCIETY |
 PORING through Harvard
philosopher Michael
Sandel's new book, What
Money Can't Buy: The
Moral Limits of
Markets, I found myself over
and over again turning pages
and saying, "I had no idea."
I had no idea that in the year
2000, as Sandel notes, "a
Russian ... |
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$202 million rights issue
SHAREHOLDERS of the Energy
City Qatar (ECQ) Holding
Company on Saturday agreed on
restructuring the company
through rights issue with a total
value of $202 million.
The rights issue will be offered
to 180 Qatari investors, senior.
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with Tohoku Electric |  CHEVRON has signed a preliminary
agreement to sell
Japan´s Tohoku Electric one
million tonnes of liquefied
natural gas per year for 20
years, the US oil major said
on Sunday.
The gas will come from its
Wheatstone plant in
Australia, Roy Krzywosinski,
Chevron Austalia´s managing
director told reporters in
Adelaide, adding that with
this sale more than 80 percent
of the gas from the 8.9
million tonnes per year
(mtpa) Wheatstone project
had been sold to Asian customers.
Wheatstone, located off the
coast of Western Australia, is
currently under construction,
with the first gas shipments
expected in 2016.
Chevron plans to eventually
expand the production... | | | AI, IA merger progress
not as desired: Minister |  ACKNOWLEDGING that the
merger of Air India and
Indian Airlines has not progressed
as desired, India´s
Civil Aviation Minister Ajit
Singh has said some things
had gone ´seriously wrong´ in
the process.
"Obviously the merger didn´t
go as planned, and there is
something seriously gone
wrong. My job is to see what
is the current situation, learn
from past mistakes and work
to see that Air India succeeds,"
Singh told interviewer
Karan Thapar in his programme
´Devil´s Advocate´ on
channel CNN-IBN.
He said, "We all agree that
the merger hasn´t progressed
or happened as it should have.
But at this point of time we
have to decide how to implement
the Dharm-adhikari... | | | East Asian powers agree
on 3-way trade pact talks |  CHINA, Japan and South
Korea agreed at a summit on
Sunday to launch negotiations
for a three-way free
trade pact they said could
help fend off global economic
chills, but the talks are
expected to be long and difficult
because of decades of
rivalry.
The three nations are
major traders, and together
accounted for 19.6 percent
of global gross domestic
product and 18.5 percent of
exports in 2010, according
to a feasibility study issued
by their governments last
year on the trade pact.
"Northeast Asia is the
most economically vibrant
region in the world,"
Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao told reporters after
talks in Beijing with
Japanese Prime Minister
Yoshihiko Noda and... | |
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