A Piece-By-Piece Guide to Financial Overhaul Law The New York Times | Filed at 2:15 p.m. ET | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two years after the global financial system nearly collapsed, a vast revamping of regulation has been signed into law. The measure targets the risky banking and oversight failures that led to the last cris...
Taiwan-China Flight Negotiations Hit Snag The New York Times | Filed at 4:36 a.m. ET | TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's negotiations with China on new cross-strait flights hit a snag after Beijing refused to reopen talks on scheduling and destination arrangements for the island's airlines, a senior Taiwanese of...
Turkish minister says Sept vote to boost EU bid The Guardian * September Turkish vote to boost its EU bid * Negotiator sees wide public support in referendum * Decries EU hypocrisy in negotiation process By Adam Tanner DUBROVNIK, Croatia, July 9 (Reuters) - Turkey's long negotiations to join the European Union...
33 Croatia Airlines flights canceled due to strike The Boston Globe | ZAGREB, Croatia-Croatia's national carrier is canceling a third of its flights for a day as cabin crews begin striking to demand better working conditions. | The strike, which began Friday and lasts until Tuesday, came at the start of Croatia's hig...
'10 U.S. Open will set prize-money record The News & Observer | The 2010 U.S. Open will offer the richest purse in tennis history, at over $22.6 million, with the singles winners pocketing at least $1.7 million apiece. | The overall prize money is up $1 million from last year, when Argentine Juan Martin del Pot...
Slavic secret: Solta is steeped in history and rich in beauty The Independent | In travel, as in life, you should never confuse quantity with quality. Yet the amount of space that guidebooks assign to a particular location can provide a useful indication of a destination's relative merit. Lonely Planet's volume on Croatia devo...
Croat unions win right to referendum on labour law The Guardian By Igor Ilic ZAGREB, June 24 (Reuters) - Croatia's biggest unions said on Thursday they had collected enough signatures to enforce a national referendum, the country's first since independence, on proposed labour law changes they say will hurt worker...
Croatia Hopes to Help Supply Europe With Farmed Fish The New York Times | DRACE, CROATIA — Despite two decades of hardship, war and a loss of markets, Matko Jasprica has kept his fish farm alive and now hopes to start exporting sea bass and sea bream from Croatia to the European Union. | The timing may be right: of...
Serbia country profile BBC News | Serbia became a stand-alone sovereign republic in summer 2006 after Montenegro voted in a referendum for independence from the Union of Serbia and Montenegro. | When the vote was followed by a formal declaration of independence by Montenegro, a spe...
World Court to Rule on Kosovo Independence The New York Times | Filed at 11:12 a.m. ET | THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The United Nations' highest court is issuing an advisory opinion Thursday on whether Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia was legal, a ruling that could set a precedent for separatist regions around the world. | The International Court of Justice advice is nonbinding, but it...
China finds a friend in Germany Asia Times | Jul 31, 2010 China finds a friend in Germany | By Jian Junbo | SHANGHAI - China and Germany are moving toward a closer and friendlier partnership, a process that seemed highly unlikely just three years ago and which could provide Beijing with an influential ally on the world stage. | In mid-July, German Chancellor Angela ...
