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1. President Barack Obama has signed the emergency legislation to raise the nation's borrowing limit. Obama says lawmakers still need to find a balanced approach to reducing the deficit that includes adjustments to Medicare and reforming the tax code
1. Just a day after a jobs bill cleared Congress, President Barack Obama is expected to sign it today. The bill includes 18 billion dollars in tax breaks and extends highway and mass transit program to the end of the year. It's estimated the bill cou
1. The Syrian city of Homs is once again under attack with government forces shelling rebel-held areas. This comes as France's new foreign minister declares Syria is in a state of civil war. 2. Mitt Romney is attacking President Obama as anti-investm
1. A political stalemate in Greece is rattling financial markets worldwide. It comes more than a week after elections gave no party a majority in parliament. Greeks are furious over the handling of their financial crisis and severe austerity measures
1. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase is keeping his job as chairman of the board. Some shareholders wanted Jamie Dimon to lose the other title after the giant bank lost two billion dollars on risky trades. However, he survived the vote that began weeks befor
There were 222 million people aged 60 or above in China at the end of 2015, 16.1 percent of the total population, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said last Monday. 中国民政部上周一表示,截至2015年底,我国60岁及以上老年人口为2
中国国际动漫节成交22亿元 HANGZHOU, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The contracted transactions reached 13.8 billion yuan (2.2 billion U.S. dollars) at the 10th China International Cartoon Animation Festival which closed Saturday, said organizers. The si
British oil giant BP says it made nearly $40 billion in profits last year even as it prepares for the opening of a massive trial later this month about damages that resulted from the company's 2010 oil rig explosion off the southern U.S. coastline. W
Business. 商业。 Mis-selling drugs. 违规销售药物。 The settlers. 和解者。 American prosecutors wring $3 billion from GlaxoSmithKline. 美国检察官提请对葛兰素史克公司处以30亿美元罚款。 PATRIOTIC pundits might make s
Finance and Economics;Funds of hedge funds;Going, going, gone? 财经;综合基金;渐行渐去? An overdue wave of consolidation is hitting the funds-of-funds industry; 迟到的兼并浪潮冲击着综合基金管理; If one individua
Finance and Economics;The euro zone's rescue fund; Funny money, fuzzy maths; 财经;欧元区救助基金;不明的财源,模糊的数字; The IMF's coffers are fuller, but the euro zone's firewall is still flimsy; IMF金库充盈,欧元防
Finance and Economics;Apple's share price; iRational? 财经;苹果的股价; 苹果股价合理吗? Apple is an iconic brand. Now it is a totemic investment, too. 苹果本是一种电子产品的品牌,现在却成了投资的风向标。 T
What? 怎么了 Not now. 现在不行 Okay. 好吧 I should go. 我得走了 I just... it seemed... I know. 我只是,我以为,我知道 We can't start this again. 我们不能再这样了 When I end something, I end it. 我结束掉的事不会再
BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The reconstruction of parts of southwest China's Sichuan province, which was hit by a devastating earthquake in 2008, has been completed, the vice governor of Sichuan province announced Friday. Wei Hong, also the director
Google and Amazon were quick to put drones to use delivering orders. 谷歌和亚马逊已经开始用无人机送货,反应神速。 But new research suggests delivery is just one small way drones are going to replace humans. The tiny airborne ves
Liverpool takeover: State-backed Chinese group want to buy club from Fenway for £700m 中国国家支持的企业想以7亿英镑收购利物浦俱乐部 An investment group supported by the Chinese state government is attempting to purchase Liverp
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Eighty-three individuals worldwide with personal fortunes totaling 10 billion U.S. dollars or more have been listed on the Hurun Global Rich List 2012, which was released Tuesday in Beijing. Carlos Slim, 73, tops the list
The online-to-offline or O2O catering sector is now viewed as a multi-billion U.S. dollar industry. Beijing-based consulting firm Sootoo estimates that more than 260 million users will order about 23 billion U.S. dollars' worth of meals online this y
Online medicine sales are emerging as a new promising business in China thanks to easy accessibility and fast delivery. Figures from the China Food and Drug Administration show that online medical sales hit 6.8 billion yuan, or more than 1 billion US
MUNICH, Germany, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- German car producer Audi AG announced Saturday to expand its investment program to 24 billion euros (29 billion U.S. dollars) at home and abroad from 2015 through 2019. The total investment volume comprises about