NEW YORK, Feb 27 (OneWorld) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has drawn fire from the nation's leading rights advocacy groups for remarks suggesting that the United States may let human rights take a back seat to other concerns in China.

SERCO GROUP PLC - Final Results TMC Net, CT As government looks to find efficiencies in the procurement of external consultancy services, our position as an approved supplier on the Office of Government Commerce's buying.solutions Catalist framework is also leading to an increased number of new ...

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks fell, driving the benchmark index to its biggest weekly drop this year, as commodity producers slumped on concern the global recession will damp demand for raw materials and batter profits.

Israel's military supplies to India United Press International, Asia, Hong Kong By Hari Sud Toronto, ON, Canada, — India’s main supplier of advanced military hardware is Israel. In the 1990s India took a major decision to procure arms from Israel after its much-touted Defense Research and Development Organization failed to develop ...

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks fell, driving the benchmark index to its biggest weekly drop this year, as commodity producers slumped on concern the global recession will damp demand for raw materials and batter profits.

AUSTRALIAN unions are outraged by a major manufacturer’s relocation of factories to China and have slapped a ban on the export of specialised machinery.

Export restrictions on Taiwan semiconductor equipment to China will be officially released on March 1, 2009, meaning that Taiwan's semiconductor makers will be able to receive orders directly from China. The change is expected to encourage leading semiconductor-tool and equipment suppliers such as Applied Materials and ASM Lithography (ASML) to invest in Taiwan.

Strolling a rural home appliance shop, Shen Liangsheng asked salespeople questions about the freezers on display as he considered buying one for his small village grocery store. The 61-year-old from Liantang Township of east China's Jiangxi Province, was considering taking advantage of the government's subsidy to farmers for household appliance -- a nationwide policy that was rolled out in ...

China's economy is showing signs of recovering even though the impacts of the global crisis are still being felt, according to a senior planning official, as he promised to steer clear of protectionism.

SHANGHAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Export-Import Bank of China, conducting its first bond sale this year, auctioned 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) of two-year bonds in the interbank market on Friday at a yield of 1.56 percent, traders said.