KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 (Bernama) -- Thursday's proceedings in the corruption trial of former Immigration director-general Datuk Wahid Md Don in the Sessions Court here involved a prosecution witness manually counting cash amounting to almost RM200,000.
FedEx Corp.'s fiscal third-quarter earnings more than doubled, topping the company's own estimates, as the shipper saw a big increase in profit at its express-shipping business.
MUNICH—Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Thursday it will cut 4200 jobs world-wide by end-2011 at its information-technology unit SIS, as part of a restructuring.
Barnes & Noble Inc. tapped the president of its Web site, William Lynch, as its new chief executive. He succeeds Steve Riggio, who held the post since 2002.
HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--China Mobile Ltd. (CHL), the world's biggest mobile operator by subscribers, reported Thursday a sharp slowdown in profit growth for 2009 and said it plans to cut capital spending in the next three years to save costs and ...
SAO PAULO, March 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian wind power and hydroelectric generator Renova Energia (RNEW11.SA) halted a planned initial public offering for up to 60 days, underscoring concern about weak investor demand for richly valued IPOs in the ...
WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency is requiring beefed up labeling for flea and tick products used on dogs and cats amid an increasing number of reports showing that pets given the pesticides may suffer from seizures and ...
A California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a runway Toyota Prius last week arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with emergency lights on.
LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - The euro fell on Thursday after a media report saying Greece is not hopeful of receiving aid from euro zone members added to uncertainty over a resolution to its debt problems and soured sentiment for the ...
(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.2 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.07 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.12 percent.
BEIJING - China's reluctance to allow the value of its currency to rise “is a real concern” to both the United States and to China's other major trading partners and could be subject to negotiations in coming weeks, the American ...
HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--China Mobile Ltd. (CHL), the world's biggest mobile operator by subscribers, reported Thursday a sharp slowdown in profit growth for 2009 and said it plans to cut capital spending in the next three years to save costs and ...
SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) -- Crude oil futures in Asia fell Thursday on the heels of a stronger US dollar, but prices were poised to rise into the mid-$80 range as investors renewed their appetite for risk, according to some analysts.
LONDON—Interdealer broker Tullett Prebon PLC won its claim against rival BGC Partners Inc. in a judgment handed down from the UK's High Court Thursday, after it was found that BGC unlawfully poached Tullett Prebon's brokers.
This is still the worst January and February period on record (monthly data goes back to 1993), but it looks increasingly likely that borrowing will slip under the £178bn in full fiscal year forecast chancellor Darling presented in the pre-budget ...
WASHINGTON—US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro on Wednesday acknowledged that the agency's oversight of Lehman Brothers Holdings may have been inadequate during a critical period when the company may have masked ...
AFP British boy leaves Pakistan with dad after kidnap - Google ISLAMABAD - Smiling and in high spirits, a five-year-old British boy boarded a flight home from Pakistan on Thursday after being reunited with his overjoyed father following a 12-day kidnapping ordeal.
The Malaysian Insider UK companies have role in NEM, .. - Themalaysianinside ... Malaysia earlier this year that were reported widely in the media such as the firebombing of the churches, and now the trial of Anwar Ibrahim which is ...
Reuters Sandra Bullock's marriage on the rocks after .. - Reuters PTI Just days after Kate Winslet announced the end of her marriage, the curse of the Academy Award has claimed another victim, this time it is Sandra Bullock.
Space.com Soyuz spacecraft carrying two astronauts .. - Space MISSION CONTROL CENTER, March 18 (RIA Novosti) - A Soyuz-TMA-16 space capsule carrying astronauts returning from the International Space Station (ISS) successfully landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
the unwired Cheaper Internet access from MWeb; News24, .. - Theunwired Apart from the launch of TopTV, this morning, Thursday, 18 March 2010, saw MWeb with the support of its parent company Naspers announce that it is now offering cheap uncapped ADSL packages for South Africa which should have a dramatic effect on the ...
AFP China orders probe after unsafe vaccine report - Google BEIJING - China has ordered an investigation after a report that unsafe vaccines led to the deaths of four children and sickened 74 others in the country's latest product-quality scare.
Ananova Corrugated shack is priceless - Ananova A St Lucia man who lives in a corrugated lean-to, without electricity or water, has turned down an offer of £40m for his land. ...
