International Business News - Italy http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A spokesman from the US bureau of the Public Debt said Wednesday that the $134 billion of U.S. bonds seized by Italy's financial police from two Japanese nationals are “clearly fakes,” all through no official word has been issued from Italy's financial police. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090618/usays-134b-bonds-seized-italy-are-lsquo-clearly-fake-lsquo.htm Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:14:06 EDT Two Japanese citizens carrying $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds were detained last week by Italy's financial police at Chiasso (40km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland, an Italian daily said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/215035-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090611/italy-seizes-135b-us-bonds-from-two-japanese-citizens.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090611/italy-seizes-135b-us-bonds-from-two-japanese-citizens.htm Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:51:30 EDT The central Italy region ravaged by an earthquake more than a week ago will need at least $16 billion for rebuilding, the country's interior minister said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/212169-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090415/italy-quake-reconstruction-cost-16b.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090415/italy-quake-reconstruction-cost-16b.htm Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:50:50 EDT Italy's biggest oil and gas group, Eni, has made a new hydrocarbon discovery offshore Indonesia as it aims to boost activity in the region, Eni said in a statement on Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090406/eni-oil-indonesia-italy.htm Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:26:16 EDT Fiat has extended by another three weeks a halt in production at its Termini Imerese plant in Sicily, with the plant now set to be shut from March 27 to April 12, a company source said on Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090224/fiat-sicily-plant-shut-alfa-romeo.htm Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:58:46 EST On Monday a 38-year-old woman who ignited a fierce right-to-die debate that convulsed Italy and dragged in the Vatican died after spending 17 years in a vegetative state. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209367-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090209/italian-woman-right-die-debate-eluana-englaro-italy-vatican.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090209/italian-woman-right-die-debate-eluana-englaro-italy-vatican.htm Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:54:47 EST One could think that a tumbling economy combined with a few thousand people being laid off would discourage immigration, but this is not so. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090206/immigration-italy-economy-economic-crisis.htm Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:33:44 EST One could think that a tumbling economy combined with a few thousand people being laid off would discourage immigration, but this is not so. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/209334-.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090206/immigration-italy-economy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090206/immigration-italy-economy.htm Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:33:44 EST