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Electronics factory in Shenzhen Can China become a hi-tech economy?
Inside a former shoe factory in China's southern city of Shenzhen, the noise of hammering and stitching has long gone. | In its place is something much quieter - the hum of laboratory machinery a... (photo: Creative Commons / Steve Jurvetson) BBC News
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Palestinians take part in a protest against the reduction of some of the financial and food aid services given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestine refugees, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2013. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
If Christopher Coyne's new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails needed a subtitle, I'd be willing to offer up "We Meant Well, Too." | Coyne's book puts into formal terms what I... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Huffington Post
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Life in Color featuring Morgan Page & David Solano on Day 4 of Sunfest 2013 in Downtown West Palm Beach, Florida - May 4, 2013 VISIT FLORIDA supports Governor Rick Scott's budget
Will Seccombe, President and CEO of VISIT FLORIDA said, “With the substantial increase in VISIT FLORIDA funding, Florida tourism is extremely well positioned to build on two consecutive years of rec... (photo: WN / Luum Photos) The Examiner
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Trader Gregory Rowe, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, July 16, 2009 Stocks make gains in afternoon trading
The stock market turned higher Tuesday as investors banked on continued policy support from the . Two big retailers also topped expectations for the most recent quarter. | The industrial average rose ... (photo: AP / Richard Drew) Newsday
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The headquarters of Apple Inc. on Infinite Loop in Cupertino is one of many cities that claim to be the "heart" of Silicon Valley, as many semi-conductor and computer companies were founded here and in the surrounding areas. Apple grilled about tax havens
By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney May 21, 2013: 12:59 PM ET | NEW YORK (CNNMoney) | Apple executives defended the company's tax strategy on Capitol Hill Tuesday, claiming that it pays one of the highest effe... (photo: Creative Commons / Joe Ravi) CNN
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File:2009-04-12 The Home Depot in Knightdale.jpg CANADA STOCKS-TSX may open higher in catch up after long weekend
n">May 21 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index looked set to open slightly higher, catching up with gains in global equity markets following a Canadian long weekend, as investors cautiously awaited t... (photo: Creative Commons / Specious) Reuters
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U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell, speaks during inauguration of the American Business Corner (ABC) in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Similar centers have been set up in different parts of India to provide Indian business community information on U.S. companies and upcoming business opportunities. India's growth needs more opening, foreign funding: Powell
Tweet | Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) US Ambassador Nancy Powell Tuesday called for greater economic opening and more foreign investments for India's higher economic growth, saying "there is more yet to do" ... (photo: AP / Anupam Nath) Newstrack India
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A Palestinian man exchanges currency, in the in city of Rafah the southern Gaza Strip, the U.S. dollar and shekel in black markets in the Gaza Strip on Sep. 20, 2011. Significant increase to the U.S. dollar $1000 against Israel 3.63. shekel in the Palestinian territories, the first time in five years, gets high for the dollar a due to protests in Israel, analysts said economy Palestinian. ( Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN) U.S. Stock Futures Fall
By BARBARA KOLLMEYER | MADRID—U.S. stock market futures fell on Wednesday, with investors expected to look for more clues on any tapering of the Federal Reserve's easing program. | There is no data ... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Wall Street Journal
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