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The IPOs of U.S. online education company Archipelago Learning and Chinese hotel chain 7 Days Group attracted investors, while coal miner Cloud Peak and defense-technology firm Global Defense Technology & Systems didn't.
Guatemala Ends 2-year Adoption Suspension, Establishes Reforms To Stop Theft, Sale Of Babies (AP) GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Guatemalan officials on Friday announced the resumption of international adoptions after a nearly two-year...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives on Monday in Washington on the first state visit of the Obama administration -- a tribute, both sides say, to the close natural ties between the two giant...
Posted by Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer A few years ago rivals mocked Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek, and his purse-size laptop computers. But the biggest netbook maker, with 38% of the market, is another Taiwanese tech...
What a meal of beef stomach and duck throats taught me about the new China. Zhang Haiqing, deputy director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, Chongqing Municipal People's Government, mulled the question for a...
New Moon opening night is in two weeks in Israel. But signs of a fan base for supernatural tales are few. By Jerusalem - For every rule there is an exception – and in the case of the Twilight series, it's the Israeli fan base....
Bill McKibben: Al Gore Again Explains What Must Be Done. Al Gore speaks about the key of solving the climate crisis is to have a strong grassroots consensus and how many people are beginning to stand up. Gore, I think, has...
CHENGDU, China, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A city official in Chengdu, China, said Friday that pigs are being tagged with identification chips to provide the public and officials with data. An unidentified spokesman with Chengdu's food...
A Christian Science perspective. The long recession since the end of the "bubble economy," as well as the country's high suicide rate, have triggered this study. So far, the results say that the degree of hope people feel may...
If the last century was the age of economic globalization, expect the first half of this one to be the era of urbanization. By 2050, 3 out of 4 people will be concentrated in major cities or massively urbanized regions, many of...
