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...Austal, the country’s largest defence company, said that it would supply 11 patrol boats to the US Coast Guard....
...Michael Orlando, head of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in a recent speech that China focused its espionage on stealing military technology two decades ago, but now targets the...
...The WHO predicts air pollution to contribute to 7mn premature deaths a year....
...“People in my line of work who are idealistic about it say that we should simply retreat from the coast,” says Bill Read, a former director of the US’s National Hurricane Center....
...Europe must put more pressure on Russian oil exports, argues Christof Rühl, at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy....
...He’s the acting director of America’s National Counterintelligence and Security Center. He says stealing trade secrets has for decades played a key role in advancing China’s prowess in technology....
...Twelve pro-democracy activists were last week captured by China’s coast guard as they attempted a dramatic speedboat escape to Taiwan....
...Perched along the coast, the labyrinth of pipes and columns that form the vast oil processing complex seems to emerge directly out of the sand....
...“These are far more complex legal cases,” says Vickie Patton, general counsel at the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit organisation....
...Inghams has packages Disappointment: cruising Admittedly, I am not the target demographic for a Ponant cruise up the coasts of Chile and Peru — that would be semi-retired French fund managers....
...Chart of the week This is from a recent International Monetary Fund working paper on energy subsidies, showing the breakdown between different fuels....
...The country’s military, police and coast guard have been put on alert, and some flights and ferry services have also been halted....
...If the vessel is in the water outside a federal waterway and presents a public health hazard — leaking diesel fuel, for example — the Coast Guard will remove it....
...The National Hurricane Center issued tornado warnings throughout southern Florida....
...The pier is dotted with Pakistani naval and coast guard ships. Armed boats and pick-up trucks patrol the area, while wooden fishing boats float in the distance....
...of the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims in Beijing....
...Rear-admiral Joseph Servidio of the Coast Guard highlighted what he called the “inadequate assessment and management of risks by the parties involved” as the most significant cause of the accident, adding...
...Interbank Funding Center....
...The funds were in- vested heavily in U.S. home-mortgage-backed securities that had become nearly impossible to value....
...The paths forecast by organisations that do that sort of thing, such as the National Hurricane Center and the US Navy, are the vivid coloured lines....
...Its fund, the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF), is at the heart of that promise, intended to offer victims of the spill a way to make good their losses without going to court....
...with Hong Kong, New York and London offer some of the world’s most expensive real estate and their property markets have held firm amid chaos elsewhere, to the point where they have dislocated from their national...
...fire for ‘unstable’ planning - Brussels attacks barriers to capital flows - Takeover battle for Micro Focus looms - Mobile operators in charge challenge to Ofcom - Investec looks to shift operations from U.K...
...HK listing * Sun Pharma plans bigger U.S. purchase to gain scale * Apple faces pollution storm in China * Telefónica seat for China Unicom * Vodafone-Essar Group spat intensifies * China Power New...
...The national economy expanded at an annual rate of 9.8 per cent in the final quarter of 2010, and grew 10.3 per cent for the entire year....
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