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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Asia Bulletin.com http://www.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/10/id/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/ en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:30:01 -0400 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:30:01 -0400 30 In the UK, the Nationwide Building Society has had talks with two of its smaller rivals, the Derbyshire and Cheshire Building Societies. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403605/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:07:32 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403605/cs/1/ Libya's OPEC representative, Shukri Ghanem, has said he would like to see members of the oil cartel respecting their quotas. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403604/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:06:12 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403604/cs/1/ British trade unions have called for tax cuts for lower-income workers, and tax hikes for the rich. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403603/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:04:53 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403603/cs/1/ The Yahoo Japan website is under investigation for identity theft. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403602/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:03:21 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403602/cs/1/ A British woman has paid 1.5 million pounds in a charity auction to fly with the Royal Air Force's aerobatic Red Arrows display jets. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403601/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:02:02 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403601/cs/1/ The 45 members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group have approved a US proposal to lift a ban on nuclear trade with India. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403532/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:43:53 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403532/cs/1/ One of Asia’s largest budget carriers, AirAsia, has decided to increase flights and add new routes. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403531/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:43:00 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403531/cs/1/ Nokia has lowered its predicted market share for the third quarter. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403530/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:41:47 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403530/cs/1/ As Ford Motor Co. cuts costs at its Chicago assembly plant, at least 600 part-time workers will be laid off. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403529/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:40:44 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403529/cs/1/ Continental Airlines in the US is now charging for checking a single bag. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403528/cs/1/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:39:38 -0400 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/403528/cs/1/ Nationwide, Britain's largest building society, yesterday announced it is on the brink of swallowing the Derbyshire building society and Cheshire building society.The move, the result of the credit sq... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561218/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:42:11 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561218/ The United States government last night announced the biggest financial bailout in the country's history, as it took the troubled American mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into temporary pub... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561216/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:42:15 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561216/ Wall Street finally got what it's been angling for: a bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could aid a recovery of the broken U.S. housing market and arrest a slide in stock and ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561215/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:42:35 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561215/ High-flying chief executives are thriving in the credit crunch even though the pace of pay rises in the boardrooms of Britain's top 350 companies has slowed in the economic downturn, according to a su... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561223/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:42:01 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561223/ For a long time now, I have collected what I respectfully call "bloody awful fashion-label names". Arrogant Cat, French Eye, the frankly distasteful Pinky Fish: call me crazy but I just don't find tha... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561225/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:41:59 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561225/ The employee sacked by Marks & Spencer for leaking details of cuts in redundancy payments has accused the company of operating in a "climate of fear" by monitoring private phone calls and keeping ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561226/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:41:57 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561226/ The number of flexible workers in the UK has jumped sharply over the past four years, according to a report out today from the CBI.Of 513 respondents employing more than a million staff, the CBI repor... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561224/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:41:54 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561224/ It was not the reported claim that Uma Thurman looked "angry and upset" at Heathrow's Terminal 5 that riled British Airways. After all, BA had handled its fair share of flustered passengers at T5. Wha... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561228/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:41:52 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561228/ Herbert M. Allison, former vice chairman of Merrill Lynch, has been chosen as the new CEO of Fannie Mae. Allison was selected to replace CEO Daniel Mudd after the Bush administration took control of t... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561229/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:34:12 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561229/ SAN FRANCISCO - A group representing big-spending national advertisers said Sunday it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. will... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561231/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:31:10 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561231/ Methane was once a threat to Rhondda’s miners Photograph: Laister/Hulton Getty The site does not look impressive: a fenced-off farmer's field next to an old barn in a quiet Welsh valley with a sig... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561227/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:41:55 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561227/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Sunday seized control of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, launching what could be its biggest bailout ever in a bid to support the U... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561234/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:20:58 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561234/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said on Sunday it has named Eric Felder and Hyung Soon Lee as global co-heads of fixed income, following the departure of current global head Andrew M... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561236/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:20:55 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561236/ Microsoft's Application Virtualization 4.5 has a lot to offer enterprises, but the product comes with packaging and setup issues that need to be overcome for it to work properly. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561230/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:32:36 -0400 eWeek http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561230/ Photo Credit: Fabrice Coffrini For the first time in its 123-year history, Unilever will be putting an outsider in charge when Mr. Polman becomes CEO sometime this fall. He will succeed Patri... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561239/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:17:19 -0400 Ad Age http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561239/ Become a better trader with technical analysis of the market's trading ranges, exit and entry points, breakout signals and more — including five stocks poised to move in each issue. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561240/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:11:31 -0400 MarketWatch http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561240/ Google, which enjoyed its 10th anniversary as a corporation yesterday, has a lot to celebrate. During that short period it has become the most interesting - and powerful - company on the planet. Its s... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561222/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:42:02 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561222/ Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are uniquely US institutions with no direct British equivalent. The government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) buy mortgages from lenders, package them up and sell them on to f... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561219/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:42:09 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561219/ There is something about imminent recession that calls out competitive memory syndrome in all of us. As someone who was a child in the last recession (not the one in the early 1990s - pah! that barely... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561221/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:42:04 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561221/ Equities appear poised for a surge on Monday after the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) on Saturday reached a consensus on the Indo-US nuke deal agreeing on a clean waiver for India, allowing it an ent... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561243/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:56:06 -0400 Times Of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17561243/ John Huot is starting to like high oil prices. Earlier this year, the president of St. Paul-based Huot Manufacturing won back a key U.S. customer who abandoned him three years ago for cheaper tool ki... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558843/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:18:10 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558843/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings on Sunday cut the ratings on preferred stock of troubled housing finance companies Fannie Mae (FNM.N: http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558854/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:53:50 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558854/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures surged on Sunday, pointing to a sharply higher open when Wall Street opens on Monday, after the U.S. government seized control of troubled mortgage finance com... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558855/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:53:49 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558855/ NEW YORK (Associated Press) - The stock market has lurched back near its July lows _ but Wall Street's concerns are a bit different now than they were then.In July, investors were vexed about record-h... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558852/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:01:01 -0400 CNN Money http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558852/ Dubai: UAE indices went tumbling on Sunday, as bearish sentiment and selling pressure from foreign funds continued. Weak regional and global markets also played their part. The Dubai Financial Market ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558857/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:50:43 -0400 Gulf News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558857/ MILWAUKEE - Foodmakers may be worried about higher costs for key ingredients, pushing through price increases and still maintaining their profits. But for big names like Sara Lee, Kraft and others, th... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558850/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:01:33 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558850/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter objecting to the proposed Internet search advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc and Google Inc to government regulator... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558856/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:53:47 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558856/ SimEverything .) Can anything actually live up to that standard? If is our test case, then the answer has to be no: For all the work that went into this intricate and complex simulation of life, ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558858/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:48:18 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558858/ An advertising blitz intended to help Microsoft polish the tarnished brand of its Windows Vista operating system began this week with a head-scratcher of a commercial. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558859/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:34:43 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558859/ NEW YORK - The government's historic bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Sunday will be good news to homebuyers and some homeowners hoping to refinance if it leads to lower mortgage rates, as ex... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558844/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:18:08 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558844/ The web world is buzzing with rumours that Apple Inc is all set to unveil new iPod music players this week. Apple is hosting a special event titled "Let's Rock," on September 9, the media invitees f... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558860/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:28:03 -0400 Times Of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558860/ ABU DHABI: Some of the beggars detained during a crackdown on begging in the emirate of Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates (UAE) were found to be staying at five-star hotels, WAM news agency reporte... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558861/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:28:01 -0400 Times Of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558861/ www.convera.com -- a leading provider of vertical search services for publishers, today announced financial results for the three-month period ended http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558862/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:25:16 -0400 CNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17558862/ NEW YORK - The stock market has lurched back near its July lows — but Wall Street's concerns are a bit different now than they were then.In July, investors were vexed about record-high oil pri... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557113/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:54:57 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557113/ are certainly growing louder . Not only is an unelected lame duck Labour prime minister struggling to get to grips with economic crisis and a resurgent Tory party. But the attempt to impose a 2% pay p... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557118/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:48:15 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557118/ MILWAUKEE - Foodmakers may be worried about higher costs for key ingredients, pushing through price increases and still maintaining their profits. But for big names like Sara Lee, Kraft and others, t... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557111/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:55:08 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557111/ NEW YORK - Efforts to bring oil and gas production back online in the Gulf of Mexico slowed Sunday as Hurricane Ike barreled toward the nation's energy complex, likely to be the second hurricane to s... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557114/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:54:58 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557114/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - For weeks the U.S. economy appeared to be approaching the light at the end of a tunnel, but now it seems the light may be an oncoming train. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557123/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:31:06 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557123/ NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Sunday that it was affirming its debt ratings on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but cutting the firms' preferred stock ratings to junk gra... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557116/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:50:20 -0400 MarketWatch http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557116/ In this May 2, 2007 file photo, the Fannie Mae building in Washington is seen. The Bush administration, acting to avert the potential for major financial turmoil, on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 announced th... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557120/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:40:02 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557120/ In late September, Kellogg's will be putting Olympian Michael Phelps’ face on 10 million boxes of Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes. But his agent is looking further in to the future. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557122/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:44 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557122/ New Delhi: Microsoft Corp is seeking a patent in India for an electronic data snapshot generator, co-invented by an Indian. The concept has been developed by Ramakrishnan Natarajan, associated with Mi... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557117/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:48:40 -0400 The Hindu http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557117/ VIENNA, Austria - With oil prices off nearly 30 percent from their highs of almost $150 a barrel, OPEC oil ministers are considering what was unthinkable just a few weeks ago — cutting back output t... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557121/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:45 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557121/ PORTLAND, Maine - When the 1,020-foot Explorer of the Seas cruises through North Atlantic waters next year, it'll spend more time off the coast of New England and less time near Canadian shores, and ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557112/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:55:04 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557112/ Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are to be balloted on taking industrial action for three months in a pay dispute, it has been announced. The Public and Commercial Services Union said around ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557128/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:09:19 -0400 Ananova http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17557128/ With data on retail sales, pending home sales, the trade deficit and wholesale inflation on tap this week, investors appear to be hoping for the best but bracing for the worst. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555102/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:19:20 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555102/ Partisan squabbles aside, many seasoned workplace recruiters would agree that, by most standards, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went through a speedy hiring process in becoming Republican presidential hopef... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555104/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:19:18 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555104/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The bears have been in firm control on Wall Street so far in September, and with anxiety about the health of the United States and world economies on the rise, they probably will ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555107/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:11:44 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555107/ LONDON (Reuters) - Investors are likely to be wrestling this week with two new factors that have arisen to complicate an already tricky environment -- a sharp about-face in currency trading and signs ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555108/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:11:43 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555108/ The US government today announced the biggest financial bailout in the country's history as it took troubled mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into temporary public ownership to save them fro... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555100/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:28:41 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555100/ DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The operator of the oil rig involved in last week's deadly helicopter accident off the Dubai coast said production remained halted on the platform Sunday. The rig serve... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555096/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:35:31 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555096/ With Congress returning this coming week from its summer break, the industry plans an aggressive lobbying campaign for the low-interest loans. The situation is growing dire after months of tumbling sa... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555103/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:19:19 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555103/ BAGHDAD - Iraq's Cabinet approved an initial gas agreement Sunday between the Oil Ministry and Royal Dutch Shell PLC to invest in a joint venture to tap natural gas in southern Iraq, a government sta... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555097/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:35:29 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555097/ 's market capitalization surged past Google's, making it the financial king of Silicon Valley. True, Apple still holds only 11 percent of the U.S. consumer PC market, according to researcher NPD, but ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555098/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:31:24 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555098/ Ramon Gonzalez (left), a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Rice University, and research associate Syed Shams Yazdani have found a way to make ethanol from glycerin, a common by-pr... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555110/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:06:45 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555110/ WASHINGTON – Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and help struggling car makers build more fuel-efficient vehi... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555112/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:02:53 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17555112/ blah, blah, blah. Well, kids, this was inevitable. If you have a grenade and pull the pin and release the spoon, the grenade will go off. It just happened to go off on Bush's watch. It could just as ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17553522/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:13:41 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17553522/ Many Great Friends Stables owners gathered in the winner's circle Aug. 24 around jockey Michael Baze (back to camera), who rode Mr. Chairman to victory. “They are an A+,” Dado said. &#8220... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17553527/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:40:17 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17553527/ US and Indian business groups were quick to welcome the international green signal to India on Saturday. "NSG approval is an historic step forward for India and for the world," said Ron Somers, Pre... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17553529/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:26:06 -0400 Times Of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17553529/ Merrill Lynch has raised the earnings estimates for its universe of Abu Dhabi banks on the back of a strong first half and a booming macro outlook for the UAE. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17552064/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:21:27 -0400 Arabian Business http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17552064/ US Government 'to take over mortgage giants in massive bailout The US government plans to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and all shareholders of the two mortgage giants will take a hit, ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17552066/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:09:08 -0400 Financial Post http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17552066/ New York, Sep 6 : PepsiCo, headed by India-born Indra Nooyi, is the ninth most respected company in the world, NRI Lakshmi Mittal led ArcelorMittal is ranked 60th and Reliance Industries, India's larg... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17550187/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:41:42 -0400 New Kerala http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17550187/ NEW YORK/EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer following two days of eme... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17550189/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:18:09 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17550189/ Nuclear power presents the ultimate catch-22 for environmentalists. It doesn't generate a lot of greenhouse gases, but it does produce long-lasting toxic waste. No one is more familiar with this toug... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17550190/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:12:48 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17550190/ The American government is aiming to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the two mortgage giants' shareholders will all take a hit, a US lawmaker has said. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547808/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:59:12 -0400 Sky News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547808/ KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - AirAsia, the region's biggest budget carrier, is making a risky bet. As soaring fuel prices have forced other airlines to cut back, shed jobs and ground planes, AirAsia is d... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547804/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:18:43 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547804/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Thomas O'Brien, the U.S. Attorney for California's Central District, is emerging as a likely prosecutor in criminal cases expected from the U.S. mortgage meltdown. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547809/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:53:59 -0400 Reuters http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547809/ Computer researchers built a tool that demonstrates how hackers could silently turn Facebook users into a powerful zombie army that can attack other websites or scout for vulnerable sites on the net. ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547810/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:48:39 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547810/ TOKYO - Posing proudly for a snapshot with a glittery championship belt, Seigi Nishiyama is among some 600 other sports fans packing a Tokyo theater who can't get enough of World Wrestling Entertainm... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547803/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:18:44 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547803/ In science fiction, it's one zap of a laser gun, and you're dead. But real-life energy weapons likely won't work that way. Take the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) that U.S. Special Forces have begun t... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547811/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:48:37 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547811/ Seattle-based rock band Heart on Friday informed the GOP it was not amused with the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket. Late Thursday, the group's hit song "Barracuda" was blaring in the backgr... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547812/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:48:33 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17547812/ The war over Wal-Mart on Salt Lake City's east bench may be nearing an end. With a possible Planning Commission vote looming Wednesday, the city's planning staff has issued a qualified "yes" to amen... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17545961/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:36:35 -0400 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17545961/ Sarah Palin has more in common with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in internet-searchers' minds than Obama. That's according to the audience measurement firm Hitwise, and search pattern statistics f... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17544291/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:53:45 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17544291/ NEW DELHI: It seems the US sub-prime lending crisis has come as a boon for Indian high networth individuals (HNIs). An increasing number of affluent Indians are now eyeing property in the States. In... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17544292/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:35:20 -0400 Times Of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17544292/ NEW DELHI: The acrimonious fight between the Ambani brothers is not just restricted to gas pricing, winning government contracts and M&As abroad. In fact, it has spilled over to the government circl... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17544293/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:35:19 -0400 Times Of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17544293/ The fear of recession has loomed for months, but economic facts that emerged last week alone give real cause for alarm. The London stock market fell by 7 per cent; August car sales were the lowest for... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542232/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:51:08 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542232/ It is not only the football world that has been stunned by a consortium of oil-rich Abu Dhabi businessmen paying £200m to buy Manchester City. Every British business with a share quotation has b... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542235/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:51:00 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542235/ August, amid gathering recession, is a wickedly lousy and atypical month to base too many newspaper circulation theories on - but here's a cheery one. What could rescue much of the market - especially... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542236/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:50:59 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542236/ In Houston, Houma and Hilton Head, hurricanes habitually happen. But that doesn't mean they're much of a news story outside the American cable TV loop. Mostly, indeed, they can prove a bit of a bore, ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542240/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:50:50 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542240/ Share/Embed ' }, 'v4421798': {videoId: '4421798', flashId: 'Gojn29aWCiWyhuQp7wd4xaKdHSYfnysg', videoImage: 'http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/CBS_Production_News/807/555/evening_mason0905_244x183.jpg', cro... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542243/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:31:10 -0400 CBS News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542243/ TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday as candidates and congre... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542193/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:42:10 -0400 MSNBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542193/ It may look like vodka - and it certainly sounds like it - but now the makers of Vodkat are embroiled in a bitter legal battle over claims that they are misleading the public into thinking that their ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542233/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:51:05 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542233/ We carefully examined the writing style and grammar of three recent e-mails claimed to have been sent by Jobs with three samples of his confirmed writing. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542244/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:26:53 -0400 Wired News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542244/ In the old days, dates fell into one of two categories: BC and AD. Now the relevant categories are BG. and AG: Before and After Google. The critical date was 1998, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin laun... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542239/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:50:51 -0400 Guardian http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542239/ SAO PAULO, Brazil – Argentine President Cristina Fernandez inaugurated a new wind generator manufacturing plant in Brazil on Saturday. IMPSA Wind, part of Argentina's Pescarmona group, said i... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542247/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:23:01 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542247/ WASHINGTON – The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as Sunday, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday as candidates and congressional... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542246/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:23:00 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542246/ SURABAYA, Indonesia – With the dollar a day he earns scrounging for scrap metal and paper, Jumadi can't buy his family beef or even chicken. But until now, the rail-thin scavenger could at least... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542248/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:22:59 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/17542248/