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In a speech today at a conference organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn called on Asia to play a leading role in guiding the global economy to a new, more sustainable path for global growth.
The debate between skeptics and supporters of global warming has heated up recently as hackers managed to get a hold of e-mail correspondences between some of the world's leading scientists involved in researching the issue. The anonymous group posted many of the purported e-mails on the Internet.
Nearly five months after the ruling aristocracy of Honduras used that nation’s military to oust the president of the country, Manuel Zelaya, from power and send him into exile, a “de facto” government, headed by a former leader of the Honduran Congress, Roberto Micheletti, remains firmly entrenched in power — with national elections only weeks away.
The Jubilee Debt Campaign has launched a new campaign encouraging faith groups to take action on global poverty and poor country debt.
The Oct. 7 statement by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) regarding Canada’s challenge of the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling Law (COOL) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) was disappointing to many cattle producers across the country, including myself.
On Friday, October 9, the USDA released the monthly supply/demand report for October. The USDA estimated corn production at 13.018 billion bushels, up slightly from last month and 8 percent higher than 2008.
Union boilermaker Martin Willis said he was anticipating plenty of holiday-season refinery work as he helped co-workers wrestle a giant piece of equipment into place early Friday for a several-week maintenance job at Valero's Delaware City Refinery.
Gov. Bev Perdue toured the state port at Morehead City this week. It was her first visit to a North Carolina port as the governor. Perdue said the ports are important to the state's global economy.
Madrid - Tens of thousands of farmers demonstrated in the Spanish capital of Madrid on Saturday for higher prices for their produce, claiming that farming in the country was no longer profitable. According to the state broadcaster RNE, more than 100,...
Which is better: flax or Brassica?The studies developed by the researchers reveal that flax (which is richer in cellulose) can produce up to 0.3 kg of ethanol for every kg of dry biomass, compared with 0.25kg/kg of Brassica. However, when the whole production cycle is analyzed, the yellow-flowered plant offers a greater production of biomass per hectare and has a lesser environmental impact.The ...
Gov. Bev Perdue toured the N.C. Port of Morehead City Friday, before meeting with business leaders and stopping by The News-Times office to discuss job creation, economic opportunities and her soon-to-be announced plan for “resetting” the state’s education system to better compete in the global economy.
SEOUL (AP) | South Korea's foreign minister Friday ruled out additional negotiations with the United States over a free-trade agreement, a day after the presidents of the two countries vowed cooperation to push the stalled deal forward. The ambitious accord, signed more than two years ago, has languished in political limbo as U.S. officials insist it does not adequately address a wide gap in ...
Ten years ago: President Bill Clinton called on prosperous nations to spread global wealth by helping poor countries with Internet hookups.
More than half of the residents in Humboldt County eligible for the federal food stamps program don't access it, and recent efforts by the county and local community groups are looking to change that.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday left for the United States with talks on terrorism and the global economy expected to dominate the agenda.
Our last two columns have taken a look at the role of agricultural policy in increasing food security and thus reducing the number of people who experience chronic hunger in developing countries. In our survey, we have identified policies that have had the effect of reducing the level of food security for many consumers and small-scale agriculturalists and pastoralists in developing countries.
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