In January, China imported 413,964 tons of copper, up 13.6% from the same month in 2011. The increase is even more impressive when you correct for the Lunar New Year. Due to the holiday, there were four fewer working days in China last month as compared to January 2011. Copper imports, in any event, exceeded […]
Feb 13 2012 | Posted in
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Beijing racked up the outsized surplus because imports plummeted in January. They were off 15.3% year-to-year and 22.4% month-to-month. The size of these declines especially surprised China watchers. The official Xinhua News Agency said trade “slumped” in January. Obviously, the early Lunar New Year had some adverse effect on the numbers, and analysts are continuing […]
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Nawaz Sharif slams PPP-government as SC indicts Gilani Chairman of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif has severely condemned the ruling political party, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for not cooperating with judiciary. Slamming the PPP-led coalition government for having inapt attitude towards judiciary, the PML-N chief said that the sitting government has made a […]
Acer has launched a new tablet, the Iconia A200 that comes with Android Honeycomb operating system. However, the company said that the new tablet will embrace the Ice Cream Sandwich within the next few weeks. In the stockpile of tablets that have gotten processors from dual-core to quad-core technology, the Iconia does not bring anything […]
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Foo Fighters, an American rock band, won five awards that includes award for best rock album ‘Wasting Light’. The band also won trophies for best rock song, Walk, best long form music video, Back and Forth, best rock performance, Walk, and best hard rock/metal performance, White Limo. The band’s front-man, Dave Grohl, the former drummer […]
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The new iPad launch is expected to fall somewhere in March, speculated on the basis of the history of launches of Apple’s signature tablet. Over the last two years, the tablet has gained a serious reputation in the market from the public, which does not want a laptop to read books and browse web on […]
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Who is responsible for US Drone Attacks in Pakistan? Yousuf Raza Gilani the Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan expressed that the US Drone Attacks on Taliban Militants and AL Qaeda are not allowed by the government, which think that these attacks are counter-productive. PM has expressed this opinion in his interview to AL Jazeera Television […]
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In September 2008, Google made ??what then seemed a strange move, they launched a browser for a PC and named it Chrome. Chrome’s performance was very similar to Firefox, at the time when the Explorer from Microsoft looked the ultimate source of browsing. According to StatCounter in January Chrome was the second most used browser with a 28% […]
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KRK takes a dig at Bipasha Basu Kamaal Rashid Khan, who is more commonly known as KRK, previously targeted Bollywood celebrities like Vidya Balan and Kareena Kapoor on his Twitter account but now it feels as if the self-claimed actor is in obsession with Bipasha Basu. KRK commented on the ‘Jodi Breakers’ song ‘Bipasha’, which […]
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In Time – Movie Review! Andrew Niccol’s "In Time" is the winner of this year’s "Most Obvious and Pun-Filled Allegory" competition and while it gets points for an excellent premise, some fine acting and for being, occasionally, genuinely exciting, the execution of the idea fails far more often than it succeeds. "In Time" is set […]
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Monday said that there was no moral justification left for Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani to hold his office any longer. The PTI chief asked Gilani to tender his resignation after being convicted by the Supreme Court in contempt of court case instead of pressurizing the judiciary. […]
Vitali Klitschko: I don’t understand why money is David Haye’s only motivation The current WBC Heavyweight Champion, Vitali Klitschko, has accused the former WBA heavyweight champion, David Haye, of only caring about cash because the two sides are now going far apart on the financial terms. Vitali will take on the Del Boy, Dereck Chisora, […]
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