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Northeast Asian countries' cooperative development accelerates

2 Sep 2010

Economic cooperation and investment among northeast Asia countries is accelerating, a senior trade official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.

Which Countries are Doing a Good Job Managing Their Economies?

2 Sep 2010

Name: Stephen Johnson Question: Please name some countries who seem to be doing a good job of managing their economies and social programs. What are they doing right and what can we learn from them? Paul Solman: Superb question. But what does "good job" mean? Given all the controversy over using output (GDP) as a measure of national success, the vogue in recent years has been to augment it with ...

A list of countries considering BlackBerry bans

2 Sep 2010

A list of countries considering BlackBerry bans over security concerns with data routed abroad: -- India -- The country of almost 1.2 billion people had threatened to block corporate e-mail and messaging services unless BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. makes data more easily available to its intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The deadline had been Tuesday, but the government ...