Archive for December 2012
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Hundreds of rebel fighters, singing and brandishing weapons, pulled out of Congo's eastern border city of Goma on Saturday, raising hopes for negotiations to end the insurgency. The withdrawal of the M23 rebel movement from
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A former chief executive of the comedy company National Lampoon Inc was sentenced on Friday to 50 years in prison on a conviction of defrauding investors in a separate business out of more than $200
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Syria's new opposition coalition edged closer on Friday toward choosing a prime minister to lead a transitional government after three days of talks in Cairo that furthered the dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood. Former Prime
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The Internet was working in Syria's capital of Damascus and the central city of Homs on Saturday, residents said, after a two-day blackout that experts said was highly likely to have been caused by authorities.
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Indonesia's state procurement body Bulog has signed contracts to import 720,000 tonnes of rice from Vietnam and India for delivery in 2012, Bulog CEO Sutarto Alimoeso said on Wednesday. "Besides contracts to import 720,000 tonnes
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China, the world's top rice producer and consumer, aims to improve its super-hybrid rice yield by a further 11 percent by 2015 as part of its efforts to maintain food self-sufficiency, the official Xinhua news
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The CME Group, the biggest operator of US futures exchanges, has no plans to shut open-outcry trading pits but will not change new price settlement rules for grains despite a lawsuit by a group of
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US cotton futures closed higher on Friday, ending the month up 3.5 percent as bargain hunting by mills helped offset speculative short selling on expectations of a record global surplus and concerns about a gridlock
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Cotton arrivals from the new crop in India, the world's second-largest producer of the fibre, have fallen 29 percent in the current season that began in October, the Cotton Corp of India said on Monday.
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Gold importers in India, the world's biggest buyer of the metal, continued to pile up bargain stock in view of the wedding season, as prices extended losses for a fourth day to hit their lowest
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