By JULIE WATSON and LISA J.ADAMS, Associated Press Writers MEXICO CITY – The music of James Brown plays to an empty Starbucks. A woman has virtually an entire airliner to herself as she flies into Mexico City. Beach chairs go begging on Cancun’s sugary sand. Already hammered by the global economic downturn and spiraling drug .
By WILLIAM J. KOLE and MARIA CHENG, Associated Press Writers From Egypt’s order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic — and some say debatable — measures to combat swine flu. Egypt ordered the pig slaughter even though there .
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Associated Press Writer CAIRO – Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported here, infuriating farmers who blocked streets and stoned vehicles of Health Ministry workers who came to carry out the government’s order. The measure .
By James Kon Bandar Seri Begawan – With the consent of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, an outstanding village award project or ‘Anugerah Kampong Cemerlang’ has been introduced to select the best village in the nation. The awarding ceremony for the outstanding village in the nation is expected to be .
By Azlan Othman Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei Darussalam’s Minister of Development urged Asean member countries to be vigilant and be prepared for unexpected and uncertain dry weather conditions for the upcoming dry season between June and September this year. Speaking at the 7th Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Transboundary Haze Pollution .
By Sahrol Daud Bandar Seri Begawan – Two uniformed personnel who alleged raped their own daughters recently appeared before the Bandar Seri Begawan Magistrate’s Court. On Monday, a 47-year-old man was charged with the attempted rape on his nine-year- old daughter on April 11, 2009. He was ordered to be remanded for a week pending .
LONDON WORLD stocks and oil fell yesterday and investors took refuge in the yen and government bonds as a report that major US banks may need more capital compounded market fears about a flu pandemic. World stocks shed 1.4 per cent and oil dropped 2.6 per cent after the Wall Street Journal said US regulators .
SINGAPORE THE rising risk that a global pandemic could snuff out frail signs of recovery in the world economy spurred nervous investors to seek safe havens yesterday, after the World Health Organisation raised its alert level for a deadly swine flu outbreak that started in Mexico. Mexican Labour Minister Javier Lozano said the country did .
FRANKFURT GERMANY’S biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, posted surprisingly strong results yesterday, becoming the latest global bank to offer hope for a reversal of the financial crisis. Deutsche Bank reported a first quarter net profit of €1.2 billion (US$1.56 billion), well above market expectations. In the first quarter of 2008, the bank suffered a loss of .
WASHINGTON ECONOMIC growth in the Middle East and North Africa is set to halve to three per cent this year with the collapse of oil prices, demand and worker remittances, a senior World Bank official said yesterday. Daniela Gressani, World Bank vice president for the region, said countries outside the Gulf such as Iran, Syria .
