Stocks Retreat As Oil Pushes To Record

Say you're a businessman visiting a factory in Wilton. Or you live out of state and you want to go to your cousin's wedding in Milford. >> full story

Bay Area Chinese Americans mobilize to help

Americans pride themselves on their individuality and independence. But Chinese Americans live by an old Chinese motto, "group effort will bring prosperity." That mind-set was in force last week, when Chinese ...full story

HK breaks record with nearly $1b in quake relief

Hong Kong people have opened their hearts and purse strings by raising nearly HK$1 billion for Sichuan earthquake victims. >> full story

Leisure firm to develop Cagayan int'l airport

By Judith Balea abs-cbnNEWS.com In a bid to boost tourism in northwest of Luzon, publicly listed Leisure and Resorts World Corp. >> full story

Stocks Retreat As Oil Pushes To Record

Stocks declined Friday as enthusiasm over a surprise jump in home construction gave way to renewed concerns about how consumers will fare as oil pushes to fresh highs.Wall Street, hoping for an economic rebound ...full story

Europe's largest bank to tap rising Indian incomes

The images and stories are not pleasant: shrimp raised overseas, en masse in stagnant ponds pumped full of antibiotics so the shellfish won't die from their own filth. >> full story

S.A. entrepreneur turns embroidery into art

The first idea that turned Robert Young into an entrepreneur grew from the frustration of working in a captive embroidery digitizing house. >> full story

Government assist farmers boost marketing

The government through the Marketing and Export Promotions Division of the Ministry of Commerce on Friday released a $60,000 funding assistance to promote honey and meat production in Auki, Malaita Province. >> full story

BayBio makes local pitch to BIO attendees

How are you going to keep biotechs down in San Diego after they've seen Mission Bay? Trade group BayBio and a cadre of Bay Area economic development agencies next month will lead international delegations on a ...full story

Europe's largest bank to tap rising Indian incomes

HSBC Holdings Plc plans to buy 73.2 percent of IL&FS Investsmart Ltd, an Indian brokerage, for 10.03 billion rupees to tap rising incomes in the world's fastest growing major economy after China. >> full story

2007 Top 10 IPR protection events

Updated: 2008-05-19 10:14 A Chinese saying sums up the government's efforts to immunize itself from global price shocks: a half-closed door will not shut out everything. >> full story

India exam pressure leads to wave of student suicides

IT'S exam season in India - and it's also suicide season when students buckle under parental pressure to get high marks and into a top university for the golden chance of a high-paying job. >> full story

Comcast sets up Arabic service hub

DEARBORN -- In response to a burgeoning demand from the Arab-American community, Comcast is opening its first bilingual service center today to serve its Arabic speaking customers. >> full story

Savea Sano Malifa

What did His Highness think when he was given the bill to sign? Today's Topic: "The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it" - Thomas Jefferson Two weeks ago, ...full story

2007 Top 10 IPR protection events

The General Administration of Customs recently unveiled the 2007 Top 10 Intellectual Property Right protection events of Chinese Customs in Beijing. >> full story