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FDI affects on the process of economic growth of developing countries
By Jeff Stats · 17 years ago
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is known as movement of capital across national frontiers in a way that grants the investor control over the acquired asset. That is how it is distinct from portfolio investment which ...
Governments are preparing to face a global pandemic
By Fabiola Groshan · 17 years ago
The World Health Organization are considering to send a national report next month and advise the government to think about stockpiling vaccine against H5N1 because a possible global pandemic could begin at any time now. ...
Federal Disability Retirement and the Agency Cover of Accommodation
By Robert Mcgill · 17 years ago
"A man who acts without knowledge is a man who merely acts."
-- From "Compendium of Sage Verses"
I am receiving too many phone calls from people who have been fooled by his/her Agency that ...
What can Be Done To Fight Suicide Terrorism?
By Obono John Obono · 17 years ago
Terrorists use suicide attacks to instill a feeling of helplessness in the population--the notion that they have no way of protecting themselves against such attacks. These feelings strike a blow to public morale, creating fear ...
JFK Conspiracy and Other Historical Secrets
By Gersiane De Brito · 18 years ago
The prophecies of Nostradamus, today popularly believed to be the work of a charlatan, are given new life in Morten St. George's Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics: A Guide to Cryptic Thinking. St. ...
Chinese: Adapting the Past and Facing the Future
By Jeff Stats · 17 years ago
Half a century ago nobody could even imagine the pace of growing that China is experiencing right now. Back then it was simply a country with a devastated by war economy that was just starting ...
The Energy Crisis : Headlines in the 60's and 70's
By Danna Schneider · 18 years ago
All the rage in the revolutionary years of the 1960's and 1970's were the smaller, more compact vehicles. It's the time during which we saw the first emergence of awareness of our planet, what we ...
Murder, Policies and Procedures
By Dot Olonovich · 18 years ago
On a recent Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer shocked our local community by stating the obvious: "Even after the carnage at an Amish school in Lancaster County last week, a spot check by Inquirer reporters found ...
Terrorism in Kashmir – India
By Jennifer Taylor · 18 years ago
India is fighting the terrorists in kashmir since 1989. Pakistan fought three war on kashmir- 1947-48, 65, 1971. but his every attempt to snatch kashmir from india become futile. Pakistan army understood the edge of ...
Coup in Paradise
By John King · 18 years ago
Sprouting like a flower in the rough yet beautiful red sea Thailand sports some of the most spectacular sites within Asia . A land of elephants, beaches, and beautiful women, Thailand is a hotbed for ...
The Freedom Tower – Signature of the New World Trade Center Complex
By Fabiola Groshan · 18 years ago
The new World Trade Center complex currently under construction in Manhattan, New York City is a very ambitious project designed to fulfill multiple roles: stand out as a symbol for national strength and freedom, pay ...
Terrorism – A Major Concern Worldwide
By Fabiola Groshan · 18 years ago
In an already insecure society dominated by crime, conflict and injustice, terrorism has a major impact on global level, having the ability to generate panic, chaos and destruction of indescribable proportions. Terrorism adds even more ...
African Countries Must Speed Up Enacting Biosafety Laws
By James Wachai · 18 years ago
Opponents of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) regularly cite lack of biosafety policies as the main reason why there should be no rush to introduce genetically modified crops in Africa. I agree with them on this, ...
Croc Hunter and the notion of risk in business and life
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Steve Irwin the international crocodile hunting celebrity from Australia died while filming a new TV program on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A videotape of the incident is purported to show Irwin on one side of ...
Sumner Redstone Fires Viacom CEO Tom Freston
By Geoff Gannon · 18 years ago
On Monday, Sumner Redstone fired Viacom’s CEO, Tom Freston. Yesterday, Viacom announced that its Board of Directors had appointed Philippe Dauman President and CEO and Thomas Dooley Senior Executive V.P. and Chief Administrative Officer (a ...
Katrina: The Big One
By John Burnett · 18 years ago
Storm refugees, nearly all of them black, are on the move throughout the city. And they are refugees, as in, people fleeing misfortune and seeking refuge. NPR and other news organizations caved to pressure from ...
How Much Should We Care About The War?
By Evelyn Cole · 18 years ago
Really, how much time do you spend thinking about wars in the Middle East? And, if you're not traveling by air, about terrorist threats?
Do your thoughts and words affect either in any way? They ...
What’s Going On In The “GO Zone”
By Chris Anderson · 18 years ago
Duck!!! Here comes another hurricane……. This is becoming a common mantra on the Gulf coast the last few years. I personally have cut more fallen trees out of my yard the last couple of years ...
The Tale That Dogs the WAG
By Croydon J Hounslow · 18 years ago
Glancing through the red-tops on certain days over the past few weeks, one could be forgiven for thinking that England’s World Cup bid revolved not around 11 strapping male athletes on the pitch in Gelsenkirchen, ...
Enron Debt Paid in Full? Hardly.
By Lawsuit Search · 18 years ago
There was Breaking News in the investment fraud world today, as Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted of criminal charges.
Specifically, Lay was found guilty on six counts of fraud and conspiracy ...