POLITICS

PartyGaming Plc dismissed a newspaper report on Wednesday that it must negotiate a new loan facility with its banks within 30 days of President Bush approving a bill to crack down on Internet gambling.

Operations of global software companies, financial institutions and government offices in India's main technology hub shut on Wednesday after activists called a strike over a border dispute with a neighboring state.

BP today announced its trading update for the third quarter ending 30th September 2006.

Dow Jones industrial average created a new closing high Tuesday for the first time in nearly seven years, mainly driven by its components shares ......

U.S-based ReCellular Inc will esbalish its regional office in HK considering HK's strategic location and ......

The bargain amount of warrants in past nine months this year has reached to HK$1,191.3 billion, surging 94.7% than that in same period last year......

Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. wireless provider, on Tuesday said it would begin selling three slim phones from Motorola Inc. in early November......

OPEC President Nigeria called on its fellow OPEC countries to make deeper output cuts on Tuesday as prices tumbled to an 8-month low......

The Bank of Overseas Chinese (BOOC) denied the rumor that HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank launched a bid for it and stressed it didn't touch with two lenders.

Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd, a Chinese leading gold and base metal producer, announced it will buy the new shares and warrants of England and Wales's resource company......

SUNDAY Communications Limited, an innovative developer and provider of wireless communications and data services in Hong Kong, issued an announcement that its largest shareholder PCCW ......

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), Asia-Pacific's first demutualised and integrated securities and derivatives exchange, will introduce the first China shares index

India's Prime Minister said South Africa and India have the resources and means to further develop their relationship to reach $12 billion in trade by 2010.

Global steel companies have been asked to keep a steady eye on prices to ensure they do not get affected by Chinese overproduction levels.

The recent spectacular drop in oil prices has taken inflation expectations down with it, along with the returns on inflation hedges including TIPS, or Treasury inflation-protected securities

The economic growth for this year is expected to grow steadily at a rate of 3.6 percent, but is expected to slow to 3 percent for 2007, according to UN estimates.

Nokia today announced the release of WidSets, a phone manufacturer independent Web 2.0 service. The service automatically multicasts preferred RSS feeds and user generated content.

According to research results announced by Hibernian Life & Pensions, the beginning of new school year in Ireland marks the beginning of a 13 year spending spree for parents of children in primary and secondary education.

John Lewis Partnership today announced the launch of Greenbee, a new direct services company, which will offer financial, travel and leisure services.

Today PartyGaming Plc announced that it’s Board had decided to cancel the company’s interim dividend that was due to be paid on 31st October 2006.

Scottish & Southern Energy PLC (SSE) announced that it had been notified of a dividend reinvestment on 27th September 2006 by Halifax, the PEP Manager

The industrial producer price index rose by 0.1 percent from July to August in the euro area, and by 0.2 percent in countries belonging to the European Union.

The choice facing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is stark: sack the Hamas-led government and risk civil war or do nothing and watch poverty and unrest deepen in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Transport and warehouse firm Christian Salvesen said on Tuesday it had grown revenues by about 7 percent in the six months to September 30, but some of its markets remained tough.

Ceramic tile and wood flooring company Topps Tiles said on Tuesday it expected slightly lower underlying profit and sales for the year ended September

Energy network operator National Grid said on Tuesday it expected to deliver strong growth in first half pretax profit and earnings.

Britain on Tuesday was left with more gas than it knew what to do with as extra supplies pumped through a new pipeline from Norway flooded Europe's biggest market and wholesale prices fell below zero.

The European Central Bank's preference for making interest rate decisions by consensus rather than a majority vote by policymakers, like most central banks, has been criticized for being clumsy and slow.

Great Portland Estates said it was in talks to buy London Merchant Securities, which would form the country's sixth biggest listed property company with a speciality in office property.