Britain's Department of Health has proposed banning tobacco companies from putting any logos or branding on cigarette packs. One proposal for preventing young people from smoking is to sell cigarettes in plain black-and-white boxes with nothing on t
South Korea is delaying its planned resumption of U.S beef imports in the face of mounting protests, state media said Monday. The government has put off the final administrative step needed to resume imports after a request from the ruling party, the
欧盟食品价格飙升在保加利亚粮食同比增长25.4 ％.拉脱维亚同比增长了21.7 ％.爱沙尼亚同比增长了18.3% .欧洲联盟的发言人迈克尔曼表示食品价格上涨源于收成减少与日益增长的需求. Food prices in the European Union rose by more than seven percent over the past yea
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that there was no quick fix to high oil prices, which he called an issue of supply and demand. Paulson said inflation in the Gulf is significant but suggested that Gulf countries pegging their currenc
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will push G-8 leaders at this year's summit in Japan to come up with a common approach for combatting the rise in global food prices. Merkel says action needs to be taken to ensure that agricultural areas are
Investors examine the same key economic reports at the start of every month on manufacturing, the service sector and employment. This week, they'll be looking at these indicators for inflation clues as much as they will for insight into economic gro
Oil prices held steady around $8 below the record hit last month as investors tried to determine if the market's yearlong bull run is over. Jitters that record high fuel and energy prices are cutting into demand particularly in the U.S., which has j
The head of the German employers' federation Dieter Hundt warned that long-term high inflation would have a devastating impact on Europe's biggest economy, in an interview published Sunday. If inflation remains high for a long period this will send
China's foreign exchange reserves rose to 1.76 trillion dollars at the end of April, state media reported Monday, reaching a level higher than the rest of Northeast Asia's combined. China's reserves, by far the largest in the world, expanded by an
Many fishing fleets in Europe remained on strike Sunday over soaring fuel prices, but the first cracks in the movement appeared as some workers in Spain voted to end their walkout. Strikes were launched in Spain, Portugal and Italy on Friday followin
Farmers on Friday moved quickly to reject President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's tax concessions made a day earlier. She moved the point at which the sliding curve of withholding to a place so high -- about $750 per ton for soy -- that no one ha
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal will spend at least $20 billion setting up two new integrated steel plants in India from 2009 onwards, company executives have told CNN. art.mittal.afp.jpg Mittal Steel and is headed by Lakshmi Mittal, whose 45 percen
General Motors Corp. will furlough entire shifts of workers at some truck factories and may move them to nearby car plants as it restructures to adjust to a rapidly changing U.S. market brought on by $4 per gallon gasoline. GM Chairman and Chief Exec
Growth in Asia and strong sales of notebook computers helped Dell Inc. beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter sales and profit. That strong report pushed shares of Dell, the world's second-largest seller of personal computers, up 9.9 percen
Oil prices fell to near $126 a barrel Friday in Asia, extending a decline of more than $4 in the previous session despite a huge unexpected drop in U.S. crude oil stocks. The U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said delays in
