AP – RESULTS: Malaysian national carmaker Proton posted a 55 percent jump in quarterly profit and is taking steps to make it easier for the state-owned company to ally with foreign automakers.
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Summary Box: Malaysia carmaker Proton posts profit
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A year ago, there were some 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. This week marks the end of an enormous withdrawal of American troops to 50,000. Most have been flown out of Iraq, but one brigade, the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, drove from north of Baghdad to the crossing into Kuwait, tracing in reverse the route the U.S. Army took when it invaded Iraq more than seven years ago.
NPR’s Robert Siegel talks to Sanjiv Mehta, the new owner and CEO of The East India Company. He opened a London shop to sell fine foods on Sunday, the anniversary of India’s independence from England. The company of the same name was first established in 1600 to trade items from the East, and became a powerful force with its own army, navy and treasury. It was dissolved more than 200 years later into a tiny coffee and tea business. Mehta bought it, calling it the world’s first multinational company.
Security services say they believe the Taiba mosque served as a recruiting arm for groups linked to armed Islamist movements. The cultural association affiliated with the mosque was declared a “banned organization.”
Security services say they believe the Taiba mosque served as a recruiting arm for groups linked to armed Islamist movements. The cultural association affiliated with the mosque was declared a “banned organization.”
The “cloning” scandal has dominated headlines this week amid fears that beef and milk from the offspring of cloned cows have made their way to British supermarkets. British food regulators say there is no danger to the public, but they also concede that they don’t exactly know how many cows derived from an American clone are on farms in Britain.
President Hugo Chavez calls his country a workers’ paradise. But trade union activists are being murdered at an alarming rate in Venezuela, making it one of the world’s most dangerous countries for union organizers.
Reuters – Chinese factory workers at two suppliers for foreign automakers returned to work on Thursday after winning hefty pay rises, ending strikes that again highlighted the carmakers’ vulnerability to their China suppliers.
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Strikes end at two Chinese automotive suppliers
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The Nobel Prize winner and former NIH director has received another presidential appointment: director of the National Cancer Institute. Ira Flatow and Varmus discuss the intersection of politics and science, the genetics of cancer and the process by which basic research becomes medicine.
AP – A property arm of struggling state conglomerate Dubai World is backing out of a plan to build luxury homes in Malaysia as it looks to shore up its finances.
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Dubai World property arm sells off Malaysia stake
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