
| China and India endorse Copenhagen climate deal The message 'CUT Co2' lights up on the face of the Le Meridien hotel in New Delhi, calling for urgent action to fight climate change, at New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 19, 2007. Greenpeace is demanding that India implement energy efficiency measures as the first and most cost effective way to reduce Carbon Dioxide (Co2) emission... |
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| China and India Join Climate Accord Su Wei, chief negotiator of China on climate change, makes a point during his press conference at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.... |
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| Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks Whale shark... |
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| Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Feb. 23, 2009. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1... |
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| RP 4th most corrupt on Asia-Pacific list A scene of an ordinary day in Las Pias City, one of the cities of Metro Manila, Philippines... |
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| 'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar Anti-Myanmar government protesters hold posters of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest to demand her release in front of the U.N. office in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 22, 2009.... |
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| US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise Shanghai has been a political hub of China since the 20th century. The 1st National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. In addition, many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s.... |
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| South Korea back on track A currency trader smiles in front of a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 19, 2009.... |
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| Turkey's Ambassador Not Returning to US Yet File:Erdogan usak56.jpg... |
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| China, India give qualified nod to climate deal Greenhouse gas emission - emission - factory - global warming - air pollution wnhires (js1) ... |
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| Pietersen flops again in Bangladesh England's Kevin Pietersen bats in the nets during a training session in St. John's, Antigua, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009. The third cricket test between the West Indies and England will start on Sunday at the Recreation Ground after being moved from the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium where play was abandoned after 10 deliveries because of a dangerous outfield.... |
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| US-Born Panda Freed From Quarantine in China Male giant Panda Tai Shan at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., 10 June 2007... |
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| GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon" Rice fields in West Africa (file photo) Benin wants to quit importing rice by 2011... |
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| China passenger car sales up 55 pct in February Cars transit on the streets Thursday Feb. 5, 2009 in Shanghai, China. Two years ago, China zoomed past Japan to become the world's No. 2 vehicle market. Now it looks poised to pass the United States to be the biggest. While car sales in China have slowed lately, they haven't plummeted like those in the U.S., where January sales tumbled 37 percent from a year ago to 656,976 vehicles, a 26-year... |
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| IMF head says may be yuan changes in coming months Dominique Strauss-Kahn... |
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