oil

Gasoline Prices and Taxes changing

Submitted by justrecently on Thu, 2008-12-25 10:26. :: | | | | | | |

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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC, 国家å‘展和改é©å§”员会 or 呿”¹ä¼š), a macroeconomic management agency under the state council,  has lowered fuel prices with effect from December 19 as follows, according to Jiangsu News:
from 6,480 to 5,580 Yuan per ton for gasoline; from 6,070 to 4,970 Yuan per ton for Diesel; and from 7,450 to 5,050 Yuan per ton for aviation [...]

Commodities: Cabbage and Fuel

Submitted by justrecently on Sun, 2008-12-21 20:51. :: | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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Cabbage doesn’t find as many buyers this year as expected. The wholesale price in Zhifang Township, Ruzhou (æ±å·ž), Henan Province, was around 6 Fen per kilogram in early December, according to dahe.cn, and it was six Mao per kilogramm a year ago, according to that source. Last year, farmers could count on buyers from places [...]

Turkey and Greece look East

Submitted by justrecently on Tue, 2008-11-25 19:45. :: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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India and Turkey are discussing the use of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (TPC) pipeline as a shortcut for Russian oil supplies to India, reports Today’s Zaman. The oil from Russia is currently shipped across the Black Sea and the Turkish Straits - the latter are bottlenecks because the limit on cargo allowed to pass through the Turkish Straits is [...]

The Loss of Soft Power

Submitted by ViciousAC on Wed, 2008-11-12 09:03. :: | | | | | |

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American deaths in the Middle East have long stopped being headline news. Yet still, occasionally, there will be a blast large enough to warrant comment. In China, news of the war causes a few raised eyebrows and a lot of heads shaken. My family, at the dinner table, will talk about how terrible it is. The conversation goes something like this: "See? This is what happens when you interfere with other countries' internal affairs." Followed by a rhetorical question, aimed in my general direction: "So why do you suppose the US invaded Iraq?
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