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Bangladesh exports soar as orders shift from China: industryDhaka (AFP) Sept 8, 2010 Bangladesh said Wednesday exports leapt more than 25 percent year on year in July, with manufacturers linking the jump to a shift in orders from China to the low-cost South Asian country. In July, the first month of its financial year, Bangladesh shipped 1.82 billion dollars of goods - the highest export figure in the country's 40-year history, the Export Promotion Bureau said. This was due to a sharp rise in apparel exports as firms chose to buy from Bangladesh instead of China in a bid to kee ... read more |
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Naitale, India (AFP) Sept 3, 2010Sanjay Sathe stood by his vines in a sweeping agricultural belt outside the city of Nashik in western India and punched a number into his mobile phone. "Hello, it's Sanjay Sathe," the 36-year-old grape and tomato farmer announced in the local language, Marathi, as if talking to a friend. "Is it going to rain tomorrow?" The voice at the other end of the line told him there would be 25 mi ... more  
St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 03, 2010About 12,900 years ago, a sudden cold snap interrupted the gradual warming that had followed the last Ice Age. The cold lasted for the 1,300-year interval known as the Younger Dryas (YD) before the climate began to warm again. In North America, large animals known as megafauna, such as mammoths, mastodons, saber-tooth tigers and giant short-faced bears, became extinct. The Paleo-Indian cul ... more  
Chicago (AFP) Sept 2, 2010Times may be difficult at home for US auto giant Ford, but business is looking good in China and India, according to sales figures published Thursday. The company said sales in the two emerging economic powers increased 37 percent in August versus the same month a year before, affirming their status as "the world's fastest growing automotive markets." Sales in India posted a whopping 220 ... more |
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'BRICI' countries to drive digital revolution: studyMumbai (AFP) Sept 1, 2010 Fast-growing economies Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia will drive a "massive digital revolution" in coming years as disposable incomes increase, a study released Wednesday suggested. The Boston Consulting Group said more than 610 million people in the "BRICI" markets currently use the Internet regularly but that will grow to 1.2 billion by 2015 - over three times more than the United States and Japan combined. Annual growth will be between nine to 20 percent, driven predominantly by ... read more |
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