It's SpongeBob vs SpongeBob on German TV
2006-10-30 15:24:35
"SpongeBob SquarePants" is saturating the airwaves in Germany -- but not just because the yellow sea sponge and his sidekicks have captured the hearts of German children.
China enters mobile-TV fray
2006-10-26 14:28:02
As telecom companies and broadcasters around the globe rush to offer television services over mobile phones, China is taking steps to ensure that its domestic players don't miss out on the potentially massive market.
Japan's oil strategy hits snags
2006-10-25 13:49:24
Just five months after its unveiling, Japan's ambitious 25-year plan to sharply increase oil and gas development is hitting snags, suggesting Tokyo may find it even harder than expected to stabilize the nation's future energy supply.
Big worries for big oil
2006-10-24 11:45:42
With crude prices falling and oil-field costs on the rise, major oil companies have a big problem: sustaining their phenomenal profit growth.
Italy downplays concerns about debt ratings
2006-10-23 17:07:13
Despite international concerns about the Italian economy, Finance Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa brushed off recent downgrades of the country's debt and said the coming budget bill would do much to fix Italy's twin ills of slow growth and bloated public spending.
China's financial clout
2006-10-17 11:53:20
Sometime in the next few days, China's holdings of foreign currencies and securities will top $1 trillion -- a sum greater than the annual economic output of all but nine countries.
Olympics beckon businesses to Beijing
2006-10-16 15:46:16
For the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, Beijing expects to spend almost $40 billion on new stadiums, subways and a new airport terminal. That's more than three times Athens' estimated $12 billion infrastructure tab for its 2004 Olympics.
French farmers, activists battle over GM corn
2006-10-12 14:33:32
In a country with strong and often romantic ties to food and the land, and amid this bucolic landscape of neat vineyards and village butchers, U.S. biotech companies have found an unlikely ally in their battle to bring genetically modified crops to Europe -- French farmers.
EU strengthens landmark chemical bill
2006-10-11 11:13:54
In a setback for global industry, a European Parliament panel strengthened a landmark bill that would more tightly regulate chemicals in the European Union before sending it toward final passage.
Giants of the Sea
2006-10-10 12:47:19
When the container ship Hugo pulled into Long Beach, Calif., last month after a trans-Pacific crossing, its docking was about as easy as parallel parking a Greyhound bus in a phone booth.
Outrageous fashion, and why it matters
2006-10-06 15:13:56
With the white-fringed dresses and star-strewn bodysuits they sent down the runway to the strains of "Somewhere over the Rainbow," designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren were the talk of the Paris fashion scene this week.
EU levies tariffs on Chinese shoes
2006-10-06 10:06:40
The European Union voted to impose antidumping tariffs on imports of leather shoes from China and Vietnam, exposing the divide between European manufacturers clamoring for protection from low-cost competitors and retailers who want unfettered access to Asian goods.