Washington - The US House of Representatives is expected to vote along party lines later Wednesday on an unprecedented 825- billion-dollar economic stimulus package to help pull the world's largest economy out of its most serious recession in decades.
President Barack Obama, who has made the stimulus a centrepiece of his efforts to revive the struggling economy, made a final effort to convince skeptical legislators to back his plan, which includes a mixture of government spending projects and tax cuts for consumers and businesses.
Bangkok - Thailand will propose at an upcoming South-East Asian summit to set up a regional rice reserve in the kingdom to ensure food security, media reports aid Thursday.
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Davos - Global business confidence is plummeting and hopes for a quick economic recovery are fading according to a survey released at the start of the World Economic Forum Wednesday.
Berlin - German consumer confidence continues to hold up in the face of deepening global economic gloom, a survey released Wednesday said, as falling inflation helped to offset worries about the prospects for Europe's biggest economy.
Lahore, Jan. 28 : The World Bank (WB) is expected to give Pakistan a `soft loan' of 500 hundred million dollars to tackle the sluggish economic conditions and counter the ever increasing problem of poverty, provided it carries out a slew of political and economic reforms under its loan guidelines.
