Saturday, August 31, 2013

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Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 08:28 PM PDT

China's head of state assets regulator under probe for 'discipline violation': Xinhua 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 08:28 PM PDT
Chairman of PetroChina Jiang Jiemin releases the company's annual results at a news conference in Hong KongBEIJING (Reuters) - China is investigating Jiang Jiemin, head of the national assets regulator, for "serious discipline violation", state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, in what would appear to be another step in Beijing's widening anti-graft campaign. Jiang, who became head of the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) in March, was previously chairman of top energy group China National Petroleum Company, or CNPC. (Reporting by Chen Aizhu and Jenny Su; Editing by Paul Tait)
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Bones unearthed in search at former Florida reform school 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 06:01 PM PDT
Dr. Erin Kimmerle exhumes a grave at the Boot Hill cemetery at the now closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in MariannaBy Bill Cotterell MARIANNA, Florida (Reuters) - Teams of searchers recovered human bones from the sands of Florida Panhandle woodlands on Saturday in a "boot hill" graveyard where juveniles who disappeared from a notorious Old South reform school more than a half-century ago are believed to have been secretly buried. "We have found evidence of burial hardware - hinges on coffins," said Dr. Christian Wells, an anthropologist from the University of South Florida, in a briefing about a mile from the closed excavation site near the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. ...
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Ten-year-old boy wins Alaska's contest for giant cabbages 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 02:37 PM PDT
By Yereth Rosen PALMER, Alaska (Reuters) - A 10-year-old boy has won Alaska's annual giant cabbage contest, submitting a 92.3-pound (41.9 kg) specimen named "Bob" to officials at the state fair. Keevan Dinkel of Wasilla, Alaska, produced this year's winning entry, which was carried in by several Boy Scouts, in the Alaska State Fair's Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off on Friday night. ...
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India could save $8.5 billion by buying extra Iranian oil: minister 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 12:23 PM PDT
Iranian Oil Minister Qasemi walks with India's Oil Minister Moily after a meeting in New DelhiBy Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India could save $8.5 billion in foreign exchange spending on crude oil imports in 2013/14 if it relied more on supplies from Iran, which is able to accept payment in rupees, India's Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily said. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spelling out a strategy to curb foreign exchange outflow against a backdrop of a weak currency, Moily said India was likely to import about 13 million tonnes of oil from Iran in 2013/14. It has already imported 2 million tonnes so far in the fiscal year that began in April. ...
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Top Indonesian energy official barred from travel in latest government scandal: media 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 12:32 AM PDT
Indonesia's President Yudhoyono talks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in SingaporeBy Jonathan Thatcher JAKARTA (Reuters) - A top Indonesian energy official has been banned from overseas travel, media reported on Saturday, in the latest graft case this month which threatens to further tarnish President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's final year in office. The reported travel ban on Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Secretary General, Waryono Karno, follows the arrest earlier this month of the head of the energy regulator SKKMigas, Rudi Rubiandini, on bribery charges after large amounts of cash were found in his Jakarta home. ...
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Pentagon insists it is open to foreign investment in the U.S. 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 10:20 PM PDT
An aerial view of the Pentagon building in Washington, June 15, 2005. [U.S. Defense Secretary Donald..By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is taking a harder look at proposed foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies given the increasing financial complexity of such deals, but continues to encourage foreign investment, a top U.S. defense official said this week. "If you have a deal that is in the interest of the U.S. economy and does not impinge on national security, we will approve it," said Brett Lambert, the Pentagon's representative on an interagency committee that reviews foreign takeovers. ...
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