Two leading insurance companies are pulling out of the Burmese market in response to human rights offences being committed by the country"s military dictatorship.
BG Group and its partners in the oil-rich Santos Basin off Brazil"s coast have made another "material" discovery - the sixth straight success in the region since drilling began.
The killing of an American tourist in Beijing showed that even a security
apparatus as comprehensive and all-seeing as that employed by the Chinese
state has its inherent limitations.