Sunday, February 3, 2008
Business - Economics india
| DrumBeat: February 3, 2008 Source: The Oil Drum : TEHRAN — In one of the coldest winters Iranians have experienced in recent memory, the government is failing to provide natural gas to tens of thousands of people across the country, leaving some for days or even weeks with no heat at all. Here in the capital, rolling blackouts every night for a month have left people without electricity, and heat, for hours at a time. The heating crisis in this oil-exporting nation is adding to Iranians’ increasing awareness of the contrast between their growing influence abroad and frailty at home, according to government officials, diplomats and political analysts interviewed here. [break] A new federal fuel-efficiency law gives a break to makers of SUVs -- and the customers who, despite the rising cost ... Asian art is drawing buyers from China, India, Russia and Dubai Source: International Herald Tribune: Business : Amid global stock market turmoil, investors are scouring the region's art for the next big jackpot. 3M's global growth Source: Star Tribune: Business : The company's feet are planted in Maplewood, but its body is growing overseas. Eco-Diary Rescue Source: NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed : "The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind." - Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson The Eco-Diary Rescue appears every Saturday afternoon or evening. If you have missed the most recent two, you can find them and If you haven’t already joined the , click right on over there and join like-minded folks with a green tinge. I don’t often give prominence to a particular Diary in the Rescue because there are so many good ones it’s hard to choose. But this week I found davidseth ’s compelling. Viewing the yet-to-be-enacted federal government’s version wanting, he offered . He owns some land in rural Columbia County, New York in the Hudson Valley next to Massachusetts. Like the rest of the ... S.F. Activist Seeks Peace on the Rock Source: AP National : SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality.... San Francisco To Vote On Alcatraz As Peace Center Source: WCCO: National : It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality, but that doesn't mean the measure on Tuesday's ballot in San Francisco hasn't gotten a lot of attention. S.F. Activist Seeks Peace on the Rock Source: SFGate: Top Stories : It would literally take an act of Congress before a city ballot proposal to turn Alcatraz into a global peace center could become reality. The measure's purely symbolic, given that the legislative branch would have to formally switch the island prison... ... Michael T. Klare | How Oil Burst the American Bubble Source: Truthout.com : For TomDispatch.com Michael T. Klare writes: "The economic bubble that lifted the stock market to dizzying heights was sustained as much by cheap oil as by cheap (often fraudulent) mortgages. Likewise, the collapse of the bubble was caused as much by costly (often imported) oil as by record defaults on those improvident mortgages." India: Copyright and the Law Source: Global Voices : Law and Other Things on Supreme Court of India ruling that there can be no copyright in the raw text of court judgments/decisions. Something Had to Give: How Oil Burst the American Bubble Source: Common Dreams: Views : The economic bubble that lifted the stock market to dizzying heights was sustained as much by cheap oil as by cheap (often fraudulent) mortgages. Likewise, the collapse of the bubble was caused as much by costly (often imported) oil as by record defaults on those improvident mortgages. Oil, in fact, has played a [...] India advances Hewlett-Packard murder case Source: International Herald Tribune: Business : The Supreme Court ruled that the former head of Hewlett-Packard GlobalSoft in India should face prosecution after an employee was raped and killed by a driver. Fragile, finger-thin undersea cables tie the World Wide Web together Source: Star Tribune: Science & Technology : Cables connect the digital world / Backup systems keep data flowing over fiber-optic lines despite frequent breaks Source: SFGate: Business & Technology : The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor. The foundation for a connected world seems quite fragile - an impression reinforced this week when ... Cables connect the digital world / Backup systems keep data flowing over fiber-optic lines despite frequent breaks Source: SFGate: Business & Technology : The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor. The foundation for a connected world seems quite fragile - an impression reinforced this week when ... Daughters of the soil -- Part 1 Source: NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed : Women in the Indian subcontinent have proven to be some of most effective harbingers of socio-economic change at the grassroots. No surprise that governments and NGOs often target rural women for growth-oriented projects. In fact, there are banks that exclusively target women for loans. Only recently (and most famously) the founder of in Bangladesh, Nobel laureate was on explaining why 97 percent of the bank's borrowers are poor women and how they have proven they can handle money better than men. ... Keewatin taconite plant to get $300 million expansion Source: Star Tribune: Business : Russell: Indians in a change election Source: Indian Country Today: Featured Stories : Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor in the Clinton I administration, made a remark recently that bears serious consideration. We should not, Reich suggested, pick a presidential candidate by making a list of salie Keewatin taconite plant to get $300 million expansion Source: Star Tribune: Latest : Finger-Thin Cables Tie Internet Together Source: AP Business : NEW YORK (AP) -- The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor.... Finger-Thin Cables Tie Internet Together Source: SFGate: Business & Technology : The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor. The foundation for a connected world seems quite fragile, an impression reinforced this week ... HP case to go forward in India Source: International Herald Tribune: Business : After an HP employee was raped and killed by a driver the company employed, India's highest court may force international firms to do more to guard local workers' safety. Undersea cables cut, disrupting Net Source: International Herald Tribune: Business : Internet and telephone communications remained disturbed in the Middle East and the world's back office, India, after two undersea cables were damaged. Russia Talks of a Stability Beyond Ties to the U.S. Source: NY Times: Europe : Finance officials in Moscow are now describing Russia as the most insulated from the ill effects of a United States recession among the chief emerging-market economies. |
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