Google complaint highlights China-based hacking The Press Democrat | The hacking that angered Google Inc. and hit dozens of other businesses adds to growing concern that China is a center for a global explosion of Internet crimes, part of a rash of attacks aimed at a wide array of targets, from a British military contractor to banks and chemical companies to a Cali...
HSBC moves chief back Hong Kong Standard HSBC Holdings (0005) relocated its chief executive from London back to Hong Kong yesterday as senior bankers around the world flocked to Davos, Switzerland for their annual forum. | //--> Derek Yiu | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | HSBC Holdings (0005) relocated its chief executive from London back to...
Chinese Dissident's Prison Sentence Is Appealed The New York Times | BEIJING - The longtime girlfriend and the lawyer of an exiled Chinese dissident who was sentenced recently by a court in Sichuan Province on financial fraud charges both said in interviews that they were appealing the ruling. | The complex case of the dissident, Zhou Yongjun, has raised questions ...
CNNMoney.com Pre-Market Report CNN February 8, 2010: 5:24 AM ET | LONDON (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks were poised to open higher Monday, as investor concerns about the debt situation in Europe started to ease. | At 5:01 a.m. ET, Dow Jones industrial average, S&P 500 futures and Nasda...
Asia Sails Smoothly Through Debt Waters The New York Times | MUMBAI, India - While rising government debt is a growing concern in Europe and the United States, Asia's economies remain remarkably resilient, even buoyant, underscoring how economic might is shifting from West to East. | China has been repaying ...
Color job aptitude test shows CEOs really are different USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By QI Group A mechanic? Vijay Eswaran, CEO of giant India conglomerate QI Group. By Del Jones, USA TODAY Ask CEOs to pick their favorite color and what they select will often be very di...
Need to know: CSL sales up ... Bet365 profits ... Gazprombank listing ... The Times | View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap | Economics | Trade balance: Official figures due out tomorrow are expected to show that the trade gap narrowed to £2.7 billion in December, from £2.9 billion in November. | Industrial production: Dat...
Cities like Seattle look abroad for prosperity at home Seattle Times | Are we ready to retire the old bugaboo that any American mayor better think twice before visiting a foreign city - that the press back home will pillory him or her for "junketeering"? | Just possibly. "Gotcha" stories about foreign travels are stil...
The CEO and the custodian The News & Observer | DURHAM -- Few issues incense citizens more than the exorbitant bonuses awarded to corporate executives, and yet little has been done to stop this practice. | Just last week, published reports said AIG, which accepted a $180 billion government bailo...
Make CEOs help the little guy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Few things incense citizens more than the exorbitant bonuses awarded to corporate executives, yet little has been done to stop the practice. | Just last week, it was reported that AIG, which accepted a $180 billion government bailout, was set to pa...
Australia's Resourcehouse signs huge coal deal with China Business Report | Australian miner Resourcehouse said Saturday it had signed a 60-billion-US-dollar coal deal with energy-hungry China, calling it the country's "biggest-ever export contract". | Resourcehouse chairperson Clive Palmer said the company had negotiated ...
Stocks fall on mixed jobs report, debt worries The News & Observer | NEW YORK -- Stock indexes fell Friday following mixed news from the Labor Department's monthly employment report. | The Dow Jones industrial average dipped below the 10,000 line. | Concerns about mounting debt problems for European governments weighed on the market again. Stocks had tumbled around the world Thursday as worries about the global ec...
European Stocks Follow Wall Street Higher Wall Street Journal By MICHELE MAATOUK | European stocks opened higher Monday, taking their cue from a late rally on Wall Street Friday. | The U.K. FTSE 100 index rose 0.9% to 5106.10, Germany's DAX advanced 1.1% to 5491.91 and France's CAC-40 gained 1.2% to 3605.87. | Mining companies were leading gainers in London, with Randgold Resources and Xstrata both rising mor...
Jinggoy Estrada last to see Lacson in Hong Kong Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—Beleaguered Sen. Panfilo Lacson was last seen in public in Hong Kong just before the New Year. | Of all people, it was the senator's staunchest enemy in the Senate, Senate President Pro-Tempore Jose 'Jinggoy' Estrada, who found him in a crowded shopping area in Hong Kong on December 27. | "I saw him before New Year in HK," rec...
