
chip stocks eked out slight gains on Friday amid renewed hopes for a recovery, but the Nasdaq finished lower on near record volume as investors booked profits from a rally on news of Oracle Corp’s proposed takeover of software rival PeopleSoft Inc. The broad Standard & Poor’s 500 index also ended Friday’s session

Pakistan,s economy is showing signs of recovery despite bad effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) hitting its textile exports, said a leading British daily Financial Times(FT) on Friday(Getty Images).

| The ultimate objective of the 1992 United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to stabilize the greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human

Ottawa's "Climate Change Plan" is designed to implement the Kyoto treaty that Prime Minister Jean Chrétien signed last December. | Kyoto is the nickname for an initiative under the auspices of the United Nation

6/3/03 AUSTIN, Texas, Jun 3, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- | DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in flat panel display market research and consulting, has hired two experienced industry analysts to expand company

Land prices nationwide at the end of March fell to levels not seen since March 1982, the Japan Real Estate Institute said. | The prices averaged 54.9 percent of their September 1991 peak, the group found

From Mohd Kamel Othman | KHON KAEN (Thailand), International Trade and Industry Minister, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said Malaysia had undertaken several measures to facilitate the movement of goods and services

Scotsman WITH a flick of a switch a Chinese official will today close the last remaining gap in the controver.

Scotsman FRENCH president Jacques Chirac has failed in an attempt to airbrush global economic woes off the G8...

Japan Times Housing starts totaled 100,276 units across the country in April, up 1.4 percent from a year earlier