Topic: China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several senators have formed a caucus to promote online freedom in Iran, China and other countries as the Obama administration pushes for greater access to an unfettered Internet.Ted Kaufman, a Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sam ...
AIG (AIG) has agreed to sell AIA, its Asian life insurance unit, to Britain's Prudential (PUK). AIG had been planning a Hong Kong IPO for the unit, but opted instead for Pru's $35.5B cash-and-stock offer. Germany's Merck agreed to buy Millipore (MIL) ...
Equity markets snapped a two-day losing streak on Wednesday, as comments from Ben Bernanke indicating that interest rates could remain low for the foreseeable future caused a buying spree on Wall Street. Leading the way higher was the Financial Select Sector SPDR ...
As politicians spend America into the fiscal abyss, Republican Gov. Chris Christie has a novel idea: New Jersey's new governor, the successor of so many corrupt chief executives, is taking action that will make him, like Reagan, the focus of pure hate ...
The Dalai Lama has met every US president in the past two decades, but Barack Obama also gave him a surprise memento from well before that time -- a 1942 letter from Franklin Roosevelt.The Dalai Lama revealed that Obama handed him a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top White House adviser Lawrence Summers on Thursday played down the significance of a decline in China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries.Some saw China's paring back of its portfolio as a possible sign of protest against U.S. policies.But asked on ...
Washington Sen. Murray to lead Senate trip to China to discuss trade, economy, securityPatty Murray and two other U.S. senators are traveling to China to meet with leaders of that country.Murray, a Washington state Democrat, chairs the U.S.-China Inter-Parliamentary Group, which promotes ...
War bonds like those that fueled the US military in World War II? US lawmakers wondered aloud Tuesday how to pay for a new "surge" in Afghanistan. "I don't know whether you can raise enough money, I don't know what capital is ...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered a hand to the United States to help build an " open and inclusive" Asia as President Barack Obama prepared to toast him Tuesday with his first state dinner.Singh said the world's two largest democracies had ...
EU urges US to spell out long-term climate goal, says climate deal hinges on US, ChinaThe United States should be ready to spell out its long-term vision for reducing carbon emissions over the next two decades, not just until 2020, the European ...
