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The European Union has admitted its last two new members for several years. The EU, a confederation of European countries joined together for greater cooperation on economic, agricultural, and other policy issues, will make Bulgaria and Romania the

美国烟草公司又遭集体诉讼

A US judge has given approval for a class action suit by American cigarette smokers against several tobacco companies for deceptive advertising. The suit, which seeks damages of up to $200 billion, claims that advertising for cigarettes sold as ligh

意大利电信公司收购美国在线子公司

This week's good news for Italian telecommunications company Telecom Italia is that they are buying AOL's biggest subsidiary for 675 million euros: AOL's German division, which has over one million DSL subscribers. This fits well with Telecom Italia

德国制药商默克要收购Serono

Merck of Germany announced plans to buy Swiss Pharmaceutical company Serono for 10.6 billion euros. Earlier this year Merck failed to acquire German competitor Schering, and recently pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis had

百度签约MTV 网民可合法下载原创视频

Viacom, the parent company of MTV and many other American cable television channels, has struck a deal with China's biggest search engine to provide television and music content to Baidu's customers. The Baidu search engine has been called the Googl

美国松手，俄罗斯有望入世

Thirteen years after Russia began trying to join the World Trade Organization, the United States has ended their attempts to block Russia's membership. According to US trade representative Susan Schwab, We have an agreement in principle and are fina

尼日利亚人质绑价石油产量直下

A series of kidnappings of foreign workers has reduced Nigerian oil production by over 20% since the beginning of the year. Wednesday, six workers were freed after the government paid a ransom, and Thursday, two more workers were kidnapped. After th

苹果侵权赔钱戴尔发烧回收

Apple Computer has agreed to pay a $100 million settlement for a license to use technology patented by Creative Technology Limited, the world's second-largest maker of MP3 players after Apple. Creative sued Apple in May, claiming that Apple's iPod p

沃尔玛收购好又多

Another American company moving into China is Wal-Mart. The American store chain is bidding one billion dollars to buy one hundred hypermarkets (a combination of supermarket and department store) in China from Trust-Mart, a Taiwanese company. Althou

停止开发Torcetrapib 辉瑞制药暴跌

New York City-based Pfizer Incorporated, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, has stopped research on torcetrapib, a drug they hoped to sell to treat heart disease. The drug was supposed to raise levels of what is known as good cholesterol. T

中美战略经济合作会谈

The United States and China held two days of talks in Beijing on economic policy with no conclusive results. After the US trade deficit with China reached a record $24.4 billion recently, many Americans feel that the Chinese keep the value of the yu

中国银行业全面对外开放

In more economic news from China, the Chinese government is opening up local business to foreign banks. As one of the conditions for China joining the World Trade Organization five years ago, the country is allowing foreign banks to incorporate in C

泰铢交易火泰国政府忙

Last week was a dramatic one for Thailand's economy. Monday, Thai bank regulators put new rules into effect requiring banks to keep 30% of new foreign currency deposits for at least a year in order to slow the trading on their baht currency. Tuesday

港人反对，销售税推动骤停

Hong Kong had planned on introducing a sales tax of 5% on good and services, and an extensive television and print ad campaign tried to convince Hong Kong citizens that such a tax would help their economy, but the administration is dropping the plan

东盟欧盟美国加强经济合作

The Association of South-East Asian Nations, or Asean, signed an agreement with the United States to strengthen economic ties and reduce trade barriers. Member countries hope to create a common economic unit similar to the European Union in order to

美国准备起诉，空客声称不受政府援助

Airbus announced that they will be able to finance the development of their new A350 XWB wide-body aircraft without any government subsidies. The United States government had been preparing to file a suit against Airbus in the World Trade Organizati

西班牙开出世界最大乐透

The Christmas season in Spain begins with the drawing of the numbers for the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo. This year, El Gordo (or The Fat One) paid out more than 2 billion to lucky ticket holders across Spain, with 18 million going to Rebollo