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MICROSOFT and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are in discussions planning to remove its websites from Google. The move could make Microsoft force Google to pay to index news or for the software giant to pay to include the news results...

Australia has given a cause to cheer for the Western economies by becoming the maiden country to increase the key interest rate since the world got engulfed in the financial crisis that started two years ago. The Reserve Bank of...

With the turnaround in the economy Vietnam is already facing an inflation problem and is beginning to raise interest rates to slow it down. Vietnam has also adjusted the exchange rate on the dong -the Vietnamese currency--to a record low...

Hewlett-Packard Co. 's $2.7 billion takeover of 3Com Corp...Com makes things like routers and switches that direct Internet and other data traffic. HP also raised its 2010 guidance and reported preliminary quarterly earnings that topped Wall Street's forecasts.

To know more opinions and Comments from Global Times, please visit: http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/index.html Almost each series of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings has two protection-related subjects on the agenda – one is security protection, and the other is trade...

Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian...

W orld stock markets rose Monday after the Group of 20 leading rich and developing countries agreed to maintain their stimulus measures in the wake of weak U.S. employment figures. British shares was up 61.21 points, or 1.2 per cent,...

The dollar gained ground against the US dollar following the release of October employment data. S&P/ASX200 index was up 34 points, or 0.71 per cent, at 4791, while the broader All Ordinaries had gained 32.5 points, or 0.68 per cent,...

The makers of the Triumph brand of lingerie have revealed a new bra in Japan that is the talk of the town – it is a bra that can be used for playing golf. The corset like garment unrolls into...