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With Strikes, China’s Workers Seem to Gain Power

  HANGHAI — Just days after resolving a strike by agreeing to give substantial raises to 1,900 workers at its transmission factory, Honda Motor said Tuesday that employees at another of its parts plants in southern China had staged a walkout.... Read more

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Uploaded 23 Months ago
Shifting Soil Threatens Homes’ Foundations

STEVEN DERSE, the owner of a corporate travel business in Nashville, cannot feel his house move, but he can hear it. “It’s an eerie creaking sound,” he said, and it echoes throughout his two-story Georgian-style house. It started two y... Read more

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Uploaded 26 Months ago
Passenger Trains Collide Head-On in Belgium

BRUSSELS — A head-on collision between two trains outside of the Belgian capital during the morning rush hour on Monday left an unknown number of passengers dead and injured, local news accounts said. Belgian media reported that the crash at Buizi... Read more

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Uploaded 27 Months ago
BlackBerry Internet Service Disrupted Again

OTTAWA — For the second time in a week, BlackBerry users found themselves without e-mail and Internet service, refreshing their screens in futility on Tuesday night as they languished in an agonizing information vacuum. Some BlackBerry users contin... Read more

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Uploaded 29 Months ago
JPMorgan results beat forecasts

US banking giant JPMorgan Chase saw profits between July and September that were much better than expected. The second-biggest US bank made a net income of $3.6bn (£2.5bn), compared with $527m in the same period of 2008. Strong performance in its... Read more

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Uploaded 31 Months ago
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