Word: asia
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...MSCI Asia Pacific index gained 7.7% after dropping 20% last week - the worst performance in its history...
...Despite interest-rate cuts last week in the U.S., Europe and Asia, businesses throughout the world are finding it nearly impossible to borrow and money-market rates remain abnormally high. In Hong Kong, for example, the one-month interbank offered rate, the benchmark for short-term bank lending, rose to 5% last week even as the city cut its policy rate from 3.5% to 2.5%. Banks remain leery of lending in the face of further financial-industry failures...
...project’s success even prompted a visit from former Indian president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. “Wherever he goes he always tells about the Chitrakoot project,” Pathak said. Last spring break, about 15 undergraduate members of the Harvard College in Asia Program visited self-sustaining villages in the region. “We are finally able to continue a conversation that we started almost a year ago,” said Yi Wei ’10, HCAP’s alumni chair. Wei also said that Pathak’s talk...
...time did Palin or her government cite the desire to preserve Alaskan gas for the lower 48 states. The Sempra terminal began operations just four months after Palin announced unconditional support for the Marathon and ConocoPhillips request and a month before DOE approved their plans to export gas to Asia. The development of the Mexico plant was well-known and much anticipated in energy circles...
According to Senator Ron Wyden, the Alaskan gas slated for Asia between 2009 and 2011 could meet the annual consumption of 1.4 million American families. The Oregon Democrat has accused Palin of a "major contradiction" between her support for gas exports and campaign emphasis on more drilling to slake US energy needs. "It's pretty outrageous to scare Americans about energy shortages while she has been approving export of billions of cubic feet of natural gas that could be providing energy to homes in Alaska and the lower 48 states," he said...