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Entrance to Chevron's headquarters complex in San Ramon, California. Chevron was found to have evaded $3.25 billion in federal and state taxes from 1970 to 2000 through a complex petroleum pricing scheme involving a project in Indonesia.
Chevron   Jobs   Photos   Refinery   Trading		  The Guardian 
Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
Tue 9 Mar 2010
* Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Shares down 0.2 percent in early trading (Adds quote, detail, background, byline, updates share... (photo: Creative Commons / Coolcaesar)
Kashmiri women cry during the funeral of Shabir Ahmad Mir, one of the four militants killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces, in a village in Pastuna, 50 km (32 miles) south of Srinagar March 5, 2010. Thousands participated in the funeral processions of four militants belonging to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Kashmir's frontline militant group after they were killed on Thursday by Indian security forces during a two-day-long gun battle in the village of Dadsar in south Kashmir. One Indian army officer was also killed in the gun battle and four residential houses were completely destroyed in the process, police said.
Gender   India   Kashmir   Photos   Women		  Kashmir Observer 
At Least 15,000 Conflict Widows In Kashmir: MKM
Tue 9 Mar 2010
Srinagar, Mar 08: (KONS) The International Women's Day brought forth a horrific picture of the fair gender in Kashmir where at least 15,000 women were said to have been widowed in the past twenty... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Cars - Vehicles - Parking Lot  Inquirer  Tue 9 Mar 2010
Summer heat no picnic for your car
MANILA, Philippines--You may be celebrating this dry season as being perfect for your car. And why wouldn't you? The last rainy season only brought a flood of despair to thousands of cars all over the... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Cars   Motorists   Philippines   Photos   Weather
Sony Bravia Televisions - LCD TVs  Wall Street Journal  Tue 9 Mar 2010
Sony Plans TV, 3-D Push
By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI TOKYO—Sony Corp. said on Tuesday that its television business will shift to "attack" mode in the coming fiscal year by ramping up TV shipments by about 70% to more than 25... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
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In this photo released by the Australian Defense Department, an Australian Surveillance Reconnaissance Vehicle (SRV) patrols outside the perimeter of a forward operating base in Afghanistan Sept. 17, 2005. An elite Australian commando was injured and an Afghani soldier killed when their patrol clashed with insurgents in Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. The clash came less than a month after a group of 190 Australian special forces commandos began arriving in Afghanistan to bolster international efforts to restore law and order amid an upsurge in violence blamed on the al-Qaida terror network and supporters of the ousted Taliban regi The Daily Telegraph Australia Tue 9 Mar 2010
Command role for Aussies in Afghanistan
AUSTRALIA is under increasing pressure to take command of coalition forces in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province after Dutch troops withdraw later this year. The Daily... (photo: AP / Australian Defense Department, CPL Bernard Pearson, HO)
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. BBC News Tue 9 Mar 2010
Robert Gates warns of 'hard Afghan fight ahead'
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that "hard fighting" lies ahead, in his first visit to Afghanistan since the launch of a major offensive there.... (photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen)
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   S Asia   US   War
Former Sri Lankan army commander General Sarath Fonseka gestures as he addresses a press conference after taking over as the chief of defense staff in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Newsvine Tue 9 Mar 2010
Sri Lanka's opposition leader ends hunger strike
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's detained opposition leader has ended a hunger strike after just one day after authorities allowed him to use a telephone again, a party... (photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena)
Colombo   Media   Photos   Politics   Srilanka
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the 2010 National Defense Authorization Budget Request May 13, 2009, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Star Tribune Tue 9 Mar 2010
Gates praises troops in hard-hit battle unit in southern Afghanistan
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FRONTENAC, Afghanistan - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin... (photo: US Navy file / Chad J. McNeeley)
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Shanghai has been a political hub of China since the 20th century. The 1st National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. In addition, many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s. Asia Times Tue 9 Mar 2010
US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise
By Peter J Brown The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and the... (photo: Creative Commons / Naus)
Asian   China   Economy   Photos   US
The Minister of State for Environment Jairam Ramesh - India- Politics Deccan Herald Tue 9 Mar 2010
India stands by Copenhagen Climate Change Accord: Ramesh
New Delhi, Mar 9, (PTI): India today said it has decided to formally back the Climate Change Accord hammered out in Copenhagen last year joining over 100 countries that... (photo: PIB of India)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at Moscow's President Hotel, Friday, March 27, 2009. Friday's conference on coordination of global efforts to combat terrorism and drug-trafficking in Afghanistan, whose participants include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China and the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekista Russian foreign minister says nuclear arms treaty could be signed by April Star Tribune
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reacts during a news conference after meeting with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009. The Czech prime minister is in Moscow to offer the Kremlin a gas deal brokered with Ukrainian President and Prime Minister PM to visit India RBC News
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An investor studies the latest shares prices through an electronic board at a stock market gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, July 22, 2005. Asian stocks mixed after lackluster US finish The Boston Globe
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Investor look at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Wednesday June 24, 2009, in Shanghai, China. China's shares edge up, renewable energy strong The Boston Globe
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Cars transit on the streets Thursday Feb. 5, 2009 in Shanghai, China. Two years ago, China zoomed past Japan to become the world's No. 2 vehicle market. Now it looks poised to pass the United States to be the biggest. While car sales in China have slowed lately, they haven't plummeted like those in the U.S., where January sales tumbled 37 percent from a year ago to 656,976 vehicles, a 26-year China passenger car sales up 55 pct in February The Boston Globe
Dominique Strauss-Kahn IMF head says may be yuan changes in coming months The Guardian
A delivery man walks past the Google sign outside the Google's China headquarters in Beijing, China, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. U.S. cannot take Google row to WTO -Chinese strategist The Guardian
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