But Global Times reports over 2, 000 traffic accidents in Beijing from wet weather yesterday.
Chinese scientists are concerned over whether the new H7N9 bird flu will mutate and pose a bigger threat, Global Times reports.
Prof Seamus Hegarty, Chair of the Education for All Working Group, UK National Commission for UNESCO, underlined the importance of the Global Monitoring Reports.
The Global Times reports in its Chinese edition that China and India will hold their latest round of border talks in Delhi next Tuesday.
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The government of Changsha in Hunan has reassured worried residents that no infectious diseases have been discovered in the pig carcasses in Liuyang river, Global Times reports.
And continuing the clean-air discussion, the English edition of Global Times reports that Beijing intends to improve fuel quality, especially by reducing the sulphur content in petrol.
Global economic reports were unsettling from all directions this week.
Meanwhile, the Global Times reports on a luxury car with new military licence plates seen on the road, days after new regulations were introduced aimed at preventing misuse of military license plates.
Although gold imports from Hong Kong were cut in half in December, HSBC Global Research reports that overall gold imports from Hong Kong were 10 times the historical average from January through November 2011.
Joy Global (JOY) reports its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, December 12, 2012.
The news is full of disturbing reports about global warming, threatened species, and the gradual realization that the way we live -- particularly in developed nations -- will have to change if we want to enjoy a clean and sustainable future.
Outside of prominent columns and reports, Roubini Global Economics offers clients research, market analysis and direct access to analysts and strategists.
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U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports and the global services PMI.
The easy answer is to point to the better-than-expected economic reports from the global manufacturing sector and say that things might be better than investors were assuming.
Outfits such as the International Crisis Group and Global Witness publish detailed and opinionated reports from places beset by war or other disasters.
Phil Streible, senior market strategist at MF Global, said there are several economic reports due out next week that could give the gold market price direction.
In fact, there have been three separate reports examining the downfall of MF Global.
His findings echo those of reports issued last year by another MF Global trustee and a U.S. House panel.
That plant, the story reports, accounts for 22% of global wafer share.
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Only 300 of the 800 firms registered with the PCAOB to audit broker-dealers also reported issuing audit reports for public company issuers like MF Global, JP Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs.
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Iron ore price negotiations continued between global miners and Chinese steelmakers, with various news reports suggesting that a new deadline has been set for this month, and that the Chinese steel mills may be making a concession on the deep price cuts they seek.
Bush's government is accused of conducting a campaign to sensor global warming scientists, and of altering or stifling their reports.
The U.S. remains the global leader in medical device development and manufacturing, although reports from PricewaterhouseCoopers and others show that even without the excise tax its lead is tenuous, in part due to regulatory uncertainties and dysfunction that thwart innovation.
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which releases the third of three reports into the causes, consequences and mitigation of global warming in Thailand this week, the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by the latter part of the 21st century.
One of these oral medicines, Sensipar, made by the global biopharmaceutical company Amgen, has been singled out in media reports, even though there are up to five other products affected that account for two thirds of the spending in this group of medicines.
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And on the fundamentals, another bailout of Greece, and a minor one-month bump in the ISM Mfg Index were hardly indications the global economic slowdown has ended, not given the continuing dismal reports on consumer spending, consumer and business confidence, the depressed housing industry, and the jobs picture.
Computers and software--a.k.a. information technology--should maintain 5% to 6% global growth this year despite the U.S. slowdown, reports market research firm IDC.
China's rising sea levels hit a record high in 2012 due to global warming and land subsidence, threatening millions of coastal residents, reports China Daily.
Local vendors resent the colossus from Cupertino, which extracts 80% of all profits from the global (read: mostly Asian) supply chain for smartphones, reports Sanford C.
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Even as recent news reports have begun to celebrate the first tentative signs of global economic recovery, a growing number of analysts have begun to warn of its fragility.
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