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		<title><![CDATA[Beijing tightens its grip on the internet]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ China has banned individuals from registering internet domain names in Beijing's toughest move so far to tighten online censorship.From Monday, people registering a domain name in China would have to present a company seal and a business licence, the China Internet Network Information Center, a government-backed body, said in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US protests at Japan clunkers scheme]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ US trade authorities have protested against Japan's nine-month-old "cash for clunkers" vehicle scrappage scheme after Ford, General Motors and Chrysler complained that it discriminates against imported cars.The private protest, lodged by the office of Ron Kirk, US trade representative, calls on Japan to review emissions criteria governing which models...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:50:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Berlusconi treated in hospital after being hit on face by missile]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, was in hospital last night after being injured by an object thrown from a crowd during a public appearance in Milan.Mr Berlusconi was hit in the face by the missile as he met supporters on the street after a rally of his People of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New breed strikes at Iraq oil auction]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ International oil companies were the big winners at Iraq's latest oil auction that ended at the weekend, but national oil companies showed for the first time en masse that they were able to garner major contracts outside their traditional regions.China's CNPC, Malaysia's Petronas, Angola's Sonangol, Gazprom, Russia's state gas...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bombs fail to deter bidders at oil auction]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The world's biggest oil companies will bid today for the rights to Iraq's largest undeveloped fields, shrugging off the threat of terrorism and fears over political instability.The live auction comes three days after bomb attacks in Baghdad claimed more than 110 lives and amid growing uncertainty over Iraq's political...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Utility's debt woes increase pressure on Dubai]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The credit downgrades of Dubai's government-owned companies have triggered an accelerated payment clause on a $2bn debt issued by the emirate's utilities provider, raising pressure on the city-state's finances.Dubai Electricity and Water Authority's $2bn securitisation programme, Thor Asset Purchase Company Limited, an instrument originally maturing in 2036, may have...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Brussels to rule on Microsoft deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The European Commission is set to give formal approval next week to a settlement with Microsoft that ends the latest European antitrust case against the company. The two sides reached a broad agreement in September, though final details have only been hammered out in recent days before being put...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[India opts for voluntary cuts on carbon emissions intensity]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ India announced yesterday it would reduce its carbon emissions intensity by 20-25 per cent of 2005 levels by 2020, but that the reduction would be made voluntarily rather than as part of any legally binding international agreement to combat global warming, writes Amy Kazmin in New Delhi.Jairam Ramesh, the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drink-driving law under scrutiny]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The legal alcohol limit for driving could be lowered and new offences related to drug-driving introduced after the government recruited an independent expert to review the law.Lord Adonis, transport secretary, announced the appointment of Sir Peter North as he launched the annual campaign against drinking and driving.Robert Wright by...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe cuts corporate tax]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Zimbabwe will cut the rate of corporate tax to 25 per cent but raise tax rates for the mining industry .Presenting his 2010 budget, Tendai Biti said corporate tax had brought in only 4 per cent of total revenue, but he hoped better compliance as a result of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Search begins to fill GM's hotseat]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ As job descriptions for chief executive posts in industry go, taking over the top job at General Motors is singularly unappealing.The candidate needs to be willing to work gruelling hours, travel the globe, and endure pressure from an assertive and mercurial board dominated by industry neophytes named at the...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Four of the world's largest internet companies have urged Lord Mandelson to drop plans to allow ministers to change UK copyright law without needing primary legislation.Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Ebay have written a joint letter to the business secretary expressing their "grave concerns" at the clause in the Digital...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:50:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM insider who had a rough road to follow]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fritz Henderson, who was a "lifer" at General Motors, was never a perfect match for the US government's idea of a new broom at the carmaker they bailed out.Inside GM Mr Henderson was widely regarded as the brightest executive and - as financial problems mounted last year - heir...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Murdoch calls for relaxation of US rules]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Governments can best help the news industry save itself by getting out of its way, Rupert Murdoch said yesterday, as he used a Washington podium to call for a relaxation of US media ownership rules.Unsuccessful publishers should be allowed to fail just as "a carmaker who makes cars no...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[F Telecom loses state aid appeal case]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ France Telecom, Europe's third-largest telecoms group, yesterday lost its court appeal against a European Commission order to repay about ?1bn ($1.5bn) of state aid to the French government that Brussels had deemed illegal.The European Commission's competition department ruled in 2004 that tax concessions enjoyed by the telecoms group a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In France there is often no greater compliment than to be described as a "servant of the state".Every year scores of bright young graduates fight for places at the elite schools that churn out ranks of clever bureaucrats who work away in the back rooms of government. For the...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ "Stay tuned," Wang Dazong, chief executive of Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp, told reporters on Monday. "We want to move fast." BAIC, which was to take a minority stake in General Motors' loss-making Saab unit in return for funding a bid from Koenigsegg, is now in talks with GM...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ General Motors has failed for the second time in two months to sell a lossmaking brand to outside investors after a Swedish consortium pulled out of talks to buy Saab, the premium car marque, from the US carmaker.Fritz Henderson, GM chief executive, said the company was "disappointed" by the...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The BBC has been holding discussions with City advisers about floating part of BBC Worldwide, its commercial arm, in response to pressure from the government and commercial rivals to dilute its media market power.As Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, told the Financial Times on Tuesday that...]]></description>
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