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        <pubDate>2010-09-06 07:40:05</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama pledges new measures to boost economy]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[United States President Barack Obama promised to introduce &quot;new ideas&quot; to boost growth and spur hiring this week.
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            <title><![CDATA[Four more executives arrested as Hanoi probes firm's debt blowout]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Police have arrested four additional former senior executives of Vietnam's debt-laden, state-owned shipbuilding company as part of widening a probe  into mismanagement. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Recovery on track 'but challenges remain']]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The world economy was recovering moderately but still faced challenges such as the need for medium-term fiscal consolidation, the International Monetary Fund's first managing director,  John Lipsky,  said yesterday.  
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            <title><![CDATA[Tech firms at odds over rebound]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Top executives of consumer electronic companies offer differing opinions about the sustainability of a European economic upswing.
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman to close down proprietary trading unit]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group is disbanding its principal-strategies business, one of the groups that makes bets with the firm's own money, to comply with new government rules aimed at curbing risk, two people with knowledge of the decision say.  
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            <title><![CDATA[Burger King cancels Sinar Mas palm oil deal in eco push]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Environmentalists  praised Burger King's decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying rain forests.
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            <title><![CDATA[Revolving door at top hurts Japan]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A showdown between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the contender for his job threatens to erode confidence in Japan's ability to address a faltering economy and the world's largest debt, analysts say.
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            <title><![CDATA[Villagers fear for their health after Thai court ruling]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A year after legal action halted 76 projects at the vast Map Ta Phut  industrial estate on Thailand's eastern seaboard, a court dismissed the case  and opened the way for a full-scale resumption of works there.
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            <title><![CDATA[IT provider enjoys steady rise in revenue]]></title>
            <pubDate>2010-09-06 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Strong product sales saw  information-technology service provider Automated Systems Holdings  announce a 9.4 per cent rise in net profit to HK$8.7 million for the three months to June.  Revenue increased 15.4 per cent   to HK$331.4 million.
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