China looks to defuse trade tensions, asks US for talks BEIJING: President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser told US business leaders in Washington that China hopes the White House will revive high-level dialogue on economic disputes and name a new chief liaison to defuse... Women 04 Mar, 2018
In Canada, climate change could open new farmland to the plow TORONTO: As global warming intensifies droughts and floods, causing crop failures in many parts of the world, Canada may see something different: a farming expansion. Rising temperatures could open millions of once frigid acres to the plow,... Art & Culture 24 Sep, 2017
Tough talk in latest Clinton-Sanders Democratic debate WASHINGTON: The Democratic contest for the presidential nomination returned to the headlines as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed in the latest debate over their records, with the former secretary of state defending her Wall Street ties... Women 07 Mar, 2016
China warns against protectionism China is worried that the lingering financial crisis could unleash a spiral of protectionist policies across the globe, which could further dent its trade-dependent economy. Rising protectionism, China fears, might facilitate global acceptance of the... 02 Feb, 2009
TOPICS : Sino-US trade friction in the offing China is entering the Obama era on a defensive note. Angered by US charges that its glut of savings was the root cause for the global credit bubble, Beijing has chided Washington for being ungrateful and hinted at reviewing its long-standing policy of... 21 Jan, 2009
TOPICS: US: A long period of ‘malaise economy’ Who’d be a central banker? When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was whisked into a stage-managed, on-camera meeting with Senator Christopher Dodd and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson last week to explain what he intended to do about the chaos on... 28 Aug, 2007
US treasury secretary gives away $800m New York, January 22:Top 15 charitable gifts in US last year totalled $35 billion - Nike chairman gave $105m to business school His day job may be balancing the books of the world’s only superpower. But the US treasury secretary, Hank Paulson, wants... 22 Jan, 2007
