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Oil recovery provides platform for Asia energy firms’ rally

HONG KONG, China (AFP) -- Asian markets mostly rose on Tuesday with energy firms rallying with their United States counterparts…

Microsoft plans layoffs in sales force shake-up: reports

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) -- Microsoft is planning layoffs as it refocuses its sales force on making the software…

US dollar rebounds while global stocks post gains

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- Rising oil prices and investor appetite for financial stocks helped boost most major United…

Oil price hike expected this week

(Eagle News) -- Oil companies announced a price increase in their petrol products this week. Thirty to 40 centavos per…

Tokyo stocks down by break after tech rally

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Tokyo stocks sank more than one percent Friday morning, tracking sharp losses in United States and…

Painted huts offer DR Congo village a tourism lifeline

Every dry season, women from a village in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo paint scenes of daily…

Climate change could greatly widen US inequality: study

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- If the United States fails to take decisive measures to combat climate change, it will…

Sony to start spinning vinyl after 30-year hiatus

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Three decades after it abandoned vinyl production, Sony says it will start making records again on…

Samsung to invest $380 mn, add almost 1,000 jobs in US

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- Samsung plans to invest $380 million and hire nearly 1,000 workers for a new…

Toshiba says deal to sell memory chip business delayed

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Toshiba said Wednesday it has not yet reached a deal to sell its prized chip business…

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