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SINGAPORE – Oil rose in Asian trade Friday as investors bought the commodity at more attractive prices, but concerns over the strength of the global economic recovery has injected caution into the market.
12:03:20 2009-11-20
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President Barack Obama predicted Wednesday that the United States economy would grow again in the final quarter of 2009, pulling further out of a long and crippling recession.
08:21:43 2009-11-19
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Toyota's global sales increased five percent in October from a year earlier to about 640,000 vehicles, the first such rise in 15 months, Kyodo News reported Wednesday citing unnamed company sources.
12:05:49 2009-11-18
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As Asia-Pacific leaders tackled further relaxing trade barriers and galvanizing regional integration in the face of the financial crisis, President Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday asked her counterparts to come up with a framework ensuring the protection and fair treatment of migrant workers.
02:15:17 2009-11-15
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SINGAPORE – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has frowned on an initial proposal at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit here to come up with “exit strategies” from fiscal stimulus packages being implemented by member-countries to combat the global financial crisis.
11:39:48 2009-11-14
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SYDNEY – Australia's unemployment rate edged up to 5.8 percent from 5.7 percent in October as growing confidence brought job-seekers back to the market, official data showed Thursday.
12:44:44 2009-11-12
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The global financial meltdown resulted in the loss of 950,000 jobs in the country between October 2008 and March 2009, the Asian Development Bank said in the paper, “How has Asia fared in the global crisis? A tale of three countries: Republic of Korea, Philippines, and Thailand.”
14:59:52 2009-11-11
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ST ANDREWS – Hosts Britain told the G20 it had "no reason to give up" on a new climate change deal Friday, as finance ministers met for talks on bolstering the world economy and green finance.
07:34:55 2009-11-07
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The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday held rock-bottom interest rates for "an extended period" and kept trillion-dollar stimulus measures in place to support a fragile recovery from recession.
09:58:21 2009-11-05
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Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Napoleon Morales Tuesday said he would not follow in the footsteps of Sixto Esquivias IV, who resigned as commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue because of the BIR’s failure to meet targets, even as the customs bureau was also experiencing collection shortfalls.
04:38:19 2009-11-04
