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LONDON, Feb 12 - As British companies go bust at their fastest rate in nearly 20 years, a fast-track insolvency system that preserves brands and some jobs at the expense of creditors is becoming controversial....

GENEVA, Feb 7 - American customers of Swiss bank UBS AG suspected of avoiding U.S. taxes did not commit a tax fraud, according to an investigation by a Swiss legal expert published in Swiss daily...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 - One of U.S. President Barack Obama's top economic advisers said on Wednesday he was confident that Congress would pass a stimulus bill and get it to the White House in time...

ASTANA, Oct 22 - Kazakhstan adopted legislation on Wednesday allowing the state to buy stakes in distressed banks as part of a financial stabilisation package. Kazakh banks have suffered from the global credit crunch after...

NEW DELHI, Oct 14 - India's new mining policy, moving with glacial speed towards implementation, may be too little too late to attract much foreign investment as the commodities boom fades and interest in minerals...

* New Zealand parliament backs revised CO2 trading laws * Australian Senate poised to approve emissions trading * Both schemes criticised for being too lenient on polluters WELLINGTON/CANBERRA, Nov 25 - New Zealand's revised emissions...

For hardware, there's Moore's Law, a doubling of chip power within two years. With software, you're lucky to get improvements at a rate of 3% a year.

JAKARTA, Nov 16 - Indonesia needs to relax its laws to make it easier to explore for geothermal energy in protected forests if it is going to meet a target of lifting electricity demand from...

CANBERRA, Nov 6 - Australia's government is running out of time to pass its carbon-trade laws ahead of December's global climate talks in Copenhagen, with a weak domestic opinion poll for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd...

JAKARTA, Nov 5 - Two senior Indonesian law enforcement officials will resign, police and government officials said on Thursday, following a public outcry over a suspected plot to undermine the country's anti-corruption agency. A top...