Lebanon is now preparing for parliamentary elections later this month, which the new Government under Prime Minister Mikati has committed itself to hold, beginning on 29 May.

The election marks a new beginning for the people of Bougainville as candidates compete for public support, as the public takes part in voting and as officials gear up for the inauguration of the first Autonomous Bougainville Government next month.

China s outward FDI is poised to increase sharply again in 2010, judging by the first half of the year, when it was rising at an annual rate of 44 .

On a trip back home to Canada during a Japanese summer, I was luxuriating in the cool, crisp air when I was struck with a panic attack did I unwittingly bring back cockroaches to Canada in my suitcase? Could there, at this very moment, be a cockroach creeping around, ready to set up shop in my hometown?

Japan has resumed foreign exchange intervention, and the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are preparing another large scale purchase of government bonds a measure called quantitative easing, which lowers long term interest rates and indirectly weakens the currency.