Nikkei climbs 2 per cent, oil boosts resource shares The Times Of India | Text: TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei average gained 2 per cent on Tuesday, with Mitsubishi Corp and other trading houses buoyed by a surge in crude oil prices and jump in copper. | Elpida Memory Inc 5556.T climbed 2.6 per cent to 1,057 yen after the Nik...
Australian stocks: Resources sector leads market higher NZ Herald New 7:50PM Thursday Jun 25, 2009 | SYDNEY- The Australian share market closed higher for the second day running, led by gains in the resources sector on the back of higher commodity prices. | The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 49 points, or 1.29 per cent, at 3,856, while the broader-based All Ord...
Water Resources San Fransisco Chronicle | While still not resolving the $26.3 billion budget crisis, the California Legislature is on the verge of considering an extensive and costly restructuring of California's water laws and water infrastructure. Does the right hand know what the left h...
Human resources face important BEE challenges Business Report | By Vuyo Jack | Continuing from last week's exploration of the broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) elements from all points of view, we shall look at the rest of the elements. The element of human resources development is the mo...
Resources Houston Chronicle | Wednesday | Minority-Owned Business Certification: 9-11 a.m., UH SBDC, 2302 Fannin, Suite 200. Join representatives from the Houston Minority Business Council as they discuss the benefits of being certified as a Minority Business Enterprise, the de...
Black bear killed in Utah County The Salt Lake Tribune | The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 07/04/2009 10:37:17 PM MDT | A campground attendant shot and killed a black bear that wandered into a site in Utah County's Hobble Creek Canyon on Saturday. | A Division of Wildlife Resources officer told KUTV tha...
Sterling Energy bidder met the Taliban The Times | An Argentine oil tycoon who once courted the Taliban is the mystery bidder for Sterling Energy, the troubled oil group that is listed in London. | Carlos Bulgheroni, credited as the first western oil man into Turkmenistan through his family-owned c...
Mines workers union call for assessment oil contracts Modern Ghana The Mines Workers Union (GMWU) of Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Friday added its voice to call on government to re-assess all oil contracts signed between Ghana and foreign multinationals. | Mr Prince Ankrah, General Secretary of the union, said the...
Fresh water Canada's chief resource: poll National Post | Tops oil and gas | Giuseppe Valiante, National Post Network Canada.com Newspapers National Post Victoria Times Colonist The Province (Vancouver) Vancouver Sun Edmonton Journal Calgary Herald Regina Leader-Post Saskatoon StarPhoenix Windsor Star O...
States delay tax refunds as resources squeezed The Oklahoman Comments 0 | ATLANTA — Colin Daymude was out of work last year after his business failed and eagerly filed his taxes in mid-January, figuring he’d get his refund sooner. He was wrong. Featured Gallery | It took the 44-year-old entrepreneu...
Bereft of their own resources The Australian | CAN billions of dollars of gas refloat Papua New Guinea? The country's hopes since independence have focused on one huge mine or energy project after another, each getting progressively bigger. | Each has been hailed by the country's government as ...
Clive Palmer has resources to build a mining house The Australian | IF you want an insight into the scale of Clive Palmer's ambition, there are clues in a shelf company he set up in March -- Resourcehouse. | There's nothing in it at the moment, but if his plans come to fruition, it could soon house a multi-billion-...
New DNR licenses available Syracuse | (AP) - INDIANAPOLIS - New hunting, trapping and fishing licenses are available from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. | The new fishing licenses include a category for residents born before March 31, 1943. Seniors are not required to buy fishing licenses, but the DNR says the new voluntary licenses will allow them to "continue contribu...
Reason clouded by carbon obsession The Australian | ALTHOUGH there are many doubters of man-made climate change, I am not yet one of them. But I remain unconvinced that carbon dioxide is the sole bete noire. Two decades ago, I pored over the spectral properties of the infra-red radiation of this gas, which is essential to plant life, and found that it was almost completely overshadowed by the radi...