November 14, 2011
What’s wrong with Ec 10? The dozens of Harvard University undergrads who walked out of the school’s famous introductory economics course this month think they know. The students’ general criticism is that Ec 10, in which some 700 students are enrolled, “espouses a specific — and limited — view of economics.” Their specific criticisms [...]
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November 14, 2011
President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where our interests lay [...]
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October 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61 percent of the world’s population. If the child is born in the [...]
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September 27, 2011
File picture shows Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) meeting with then finance minister Alexei Kudrin in May. The Kremlin on Tuesday faced warnings of trouble for the Russian economy after President Dmitry Medvedev ousted his finance minister in the most bitter public clash within the elite for years. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who had been [...]
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June 29, 2011
The recent documentary festival has sparked a dialogue over the flagging quality of Vietnamese films A scene in the Swiss documentary “Cleveland versus Wall Street” depicting the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis. The fictional details in the film captured local viewers and filmmakers alike. Three thousand people attended the third International Documentary Film [...]
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May 25, 2011
The logo of American International Group (AIG) is seen at their offices in New York in this file photograph from September 18, 2008. The US Treasury made a small profit when it sold a portion of its shares in American International Group Inc on Tuesday, but it was unclear how its investment in the beleaguered [...]
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January 31, 2010
Job seekers attend an interview workshop in San Mateo, California The US$700-billion US government effort to rescue the financial system has failed to meet key goals such as sparking lending and curbing risky activities by banks, a special auditor said Sunday. The special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said in a report [...]
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January 29, 2010
PM Nguyen Tan Dung on January 28 delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum’s Plenary Session on Reshaping the Global Governance in Davos, Switzerlands. Below is the speech in full. PM Nguyen Tan Dung speaks at the WEF on January 28 (photo: government’s website).I would like to share with you my thoughts on reshaping the global [...]
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December 8, 2009
Until last month, Dubai was acclaimed worldwide as an exotic Manhattan on the sea. File photo shows Kuwaiti traders follow the market’s movement at the Stock Exchange in Kuwait City Dec. 1, 2009. (Xinhua File Photo/Noufal Ibrahim)Unsurprisingly, news of the financial collapse of the emirate’s key construction firms came as a shock to many, but [...]
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December 4, 2009
A Vietnam Airlines share sale was planned for 2008, based on a 2007 Vietnamese government statement. Vietnam may next year revive long-stalled plans to sell shares in companies including Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam and Vietnam Airlines Corp., Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc said. State-owned enterprises are âcrowding out capitalâ [...]
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