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Google profits surge on growing ad revenue

Jul 19, 2012 (AFP)

Google on Thursday reported a surge in quarterly profit to $2.79 billion on the back of rising online advertising revenue, beating Wall Street expectations. The...

Record tourists to France in 2011, Chinese numbers surge

Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)

A record number of foreign tourists visited France last year, with 81.4 million people travelling to the country and a surge in visitors from China, official fi...

Australia opposition to shun 'indulgent' foreign policy

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

Australia's main opposition leader pledged Tuesday to avoid "indulgent" policies if in power, pointing to hesitation by the government to export cattle to Indon...

China says 'reservations' over WTO payments ruling

Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)

Beijing said Tuesday it had "reservations" over a WTO ruling largely backing the United States in a dispute over lucrative electronic payments, in which US comp...

US hails WTO win vs. China on electronic payments

Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)

The United States welcomed Monday a WTO decision upholding its claim that China discriminates against US suppliers of electronic payment services, including cre...

Sydney navy base opened to cruise ships

Jul 15, 2012 (AFP)

A strategic Sydney naval base is to be used to dock large cruise liners, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sunday, just months after the government a...

Australia's resource boom to decline?

Jul 12, 2012 (UPI)

Australia should prepare for a downslide in the country's resource boom, the country's leading economists say. Speaking at an economic conference in Melbourne W...

Myanmar to charge Thai rubber workers

Jul 11, 2012 (UPI)

Myanmar will charge up to 61 illegal Thai nationals working on secret rubber plantations near the Thai-Myanmar border. In a detailed report, Myanmar's state-run...

40% of degree-holders from China, India in 2020: OECD

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

Emerging powerhouses China and India will lead the way in churning out university graduates by the end of the decade, the OECD said Wednesday. Forty percent of ...

HSBC to apologise over lax money laundering controls: report

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

Global banking giant HSBC Holdings will apologise to a US Senate hearing next week for failures in its anti-money laundering controls, a report said Wednesday. ...

Merkel pushes EU, Southeast Asia free trade pact

Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said Europe must step up its efforts to establish a free trade pact with booming Southeast Asia. "I am deeply convi...

Paraguay not facing suspension: OAS

Jul 11, 2012 (UPI)

Paraguay is not facing suspension from the Organization of American States because of the way in which its Congress removed Fernando Lugo from the presidency, O...

Bolivia mine in crisis after protest death

Jul 10, 2012 (UPI)

Bolivia's mining industry is in crisis after the death of a protester and government moves to salvage the situation by considering seizure of a Canadian silver ...

Australia eyes expanding Asian middle class

Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)

Asia's rapidly expanding middle class will become a key market for Australia's goods and services this decade, the country's Treasurer Wayne Swan will tell busi...

Philippines issues new mining policy

Jul 10, 2012 (UPI)

Philippines President Benigno Aquino has signed an executive order that bans mining in prime agricultural and fishing areas as well as in 78 designated eco-tour...

Romney lays into 'outsourcer-in-chief' Obama

Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)

Republican Mitt Romney, facing a Democratic assault over his business record and charges that he helped ship US jobs overseas, hit back Tuesday by pegging Presi...

Merkel signs cooperation agreement with Indonesia

Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed an agreement Tuesday for wide-ranging cooperation with Indonesia, saying it would take bilateral ties "to a higher compre...

Myanmar president reschedules Thai visit

Jul 09, 2012 (UPI)

Myanmar's President Thein Sein will visit Thailand for three days later this month, a trip that he has twice postponed. His arrives July 22, a government offici...

Paraguay-Venezuela row deepening

Jul 06, 2012 (UPI)

Paraguay's diplomatic row with Venezuela is deepening amid accusations the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is seeking to overturn political chang...

Brazil OKs Amazon iron ore mining project

Jul 06, 2012 (UPI)

Brazil is going ahead with a controversial iron ore mining development in its Amazon region as it weighs export potential for what may become one of the largest...