By Barry Wood Washington 28 February 2007 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday regulators are closely watching U.S. markets following the huge drop in stock prices Tuesday. But U.S. stock markets rebounded early Wednesday on

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ECONOMICS REPORT - U.S. Central Banker Alan Greenspan Prepares to Retire By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, November 18, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The chairma

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By Nico Colombant Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 13 May 2008 With rising oil prices, oil exporters like the lightly-populated central African country of Equatorial Guinea, are awash with new revenue. Here, a new modern capital called Malabo II is being bu

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After steadily cutting interest rates for much of the past year, the U.S. central bank has decided to keep them unchanged, while signaling concerns about inflation that could trigger interest rate hikes in the future. VOA's Michael Bowman reports fr

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By Barry Wood Pristina 23 September 2006 At a ceremony Friday in Pristina, Kosovo took another step toward revitalizing the territory's ruined economy. The Banking and Payments Authority of Kosovo (BPK) was transformed Friday into a central bank for

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 July 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross is stepping up humanitarian operations for 100,000 displaced people in the Central African Republic. A Red Cross Official just back from the CAR tells VOA these people a

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Central banks of the leading industrialized nations are working together to try to ease a financial crisis that originated in the United States but has roiled markets worldwide. From Washington, VOA's Michael Bowman reports. A Wall Street street sig

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The U.S. central bank says the U.S. economy continues to deteriorate, and the outlook for the months ahead remains grim. Wednesday's Federal Reserve report followed another decline in U.S. retail sales that helped push financial markets lower. In it

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India Holds Interest Rates Steady Amid Economic Slowdown As India struggles with an economic slowdown, the central bank has decided to hold interest rates steady. A series of aggressive rate hikes in the last 18 months have been partly blamed for dam

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The head of the Federal Reserve,, Wednesday defended his actions over the past year that were aimed at restoring normal lending in the credit markets. Bernanke declined to make specific predictions, but was cautiously optimistic that an economic tur

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 02 July 2007 A Thai investor has a lot more going for her than ten years ago, 13 June 2007 Asian economies hit by the financial crisis of a decade ago have now recovered, thanks in part to reforms and strengthened banking system

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By Kari Barber Dakar 29 October 2007 A new World Conservation Union report says a large number of the world's endangered primates are at risk of extinction in West and Central African countries. Experts say hunting for bushmeat is threatening the ani

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 29 February 2008 The United Nations is asking for $32 million in immediate humanitarian aid for the Central African Republic (CAR). The UN's humanitarian coordinator, Toby Lanzer, says the aid will help stabilize a volat

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By Navbahor Imamova Washington 16 November 2007 In most of Central Asia women are still struggling to find their place in the political arena. Despite the Soviet legacy of gender equality, women are still underrepresented in the highest levels of gov

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 07 June 2006 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 7, 2006 before the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the

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LONDON, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and another two were injured after a helicopter crashed into a construction crane near Wandsworth Road, south of River Thames in central London earlier on Wednesday. Two people confirmed dead at scen

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BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- China's meteorological authorities said Monday that central and east China will be shrouded in fog through Tuesday morning. The National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a blue alert for the fog. Blue is the lowest leve

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UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Wednesday called on both the Central African Republic (CAR) government and rebels to halt violence and resolve the current crisis through dialogue. We continue to follow the situation in the Ce

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Finance ministers and central bank governors from seven major industrial economies met Friday in Washington and agreed on a five-point plan to stabilize global financial markets that this week experienced their biggest declines in 30 years. VOA's Ba

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CHANGSHA, July 5 (Xinhua) -- A section of a highway running near a major river in central China's Hunan Province caved in early Thursday, engulfing a passing vehicle and killing at least one person aboard. The cave-in, near the Poly International Pla

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