Los Angeles-area small-business lender receives cash infusion (Los Angeles Times)
Valley Economic Development Center gets $15 million from the city of Los Angeles and $1 million from Merrill Lynch to bolster nearly drained loan funds. After nearly running out of money in its small-business loan funds last month, Valley Economic Development Center Inc. of Van Nuys says it is getting $16 million to enable it to continue to lend to Southern California firms caught in the ...
Russian Gas Cuts: US-Afghanistan Connection? (Middle East Online)
Russia has made a serious mistake on this occasion both in hasty action and in failing to perceive the probable hand of the US and a trap, notes Christopher King .
Mayors respond to tax plans (Marietta Daily Journal)
MARIETTA - The county's plan to offer tax incentives to small-business owners who want to make improvements in some of the older corridors of the county is receiving favorable reviews from the mayors in Cobb.
Funding a Better Future for Chinese Students (PC World via Yahoo! News)
A good education is a stepping stone to a better life. That's just as true in China as it is anywhere else, but attending university requires financial resources that many Chinese students, especially those coming from poorer rural areas, don't have.
Funding a Better Future for Chinese Students (PC World)
A good education is a stepping stone to a better life. That's just as true in China as it is anywhere else, but attending...
Vietnam tested on reform resolve (Asia Times)
HANOI - Investor concerns about Vietnam's economic direction and technocratic stewardship, mounting even before the onset of global economic turbulence, are intensifying as the outlook for the country's crucial export and tourism sectors worsens.