The Chinese government is preparing to impose minimum fuel-economy standards on new cars for the first time, according to experts who were involved in drafting the regulations. The standards are
North Korea said that it would hold the United states accountable for the planned suspension of a project to build nuclear power stations in the Communist
Japan National Oil will start selling shares worth 30 billion Japanese Yen, or $ 277 million, of shares in an exploration unit next week, according to bankers involved in the
SARS may have been contained for the moment but the international community must take immediate steps to prepare for a recurrence or the outbreak of a new disease, a World Health Organization
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The European Union said that it had permanently banned the importation of U.S. hormone-treated meat and asked the Bush administration to drop tariffs imposed in retaliation for loses caused to U.S.
The Navajo revere this remote area around a mesa in northwestern New Mexico as the place where the mythical figure Changing Woman gave birth to two warrior sons who made the universe safe. Residents
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