Still waiting for China licence decision: Google

BEIJING: Google”s application for renewal of its licence to operate in China, the world”s largest Internet market, is still under review, a company spokeswoman and a government official said Wednesday.

The US web giant, embroiled in a row with Beijing over state censorship, is awaiting word that its Internet Content Provider licence vital to its operations in a country with more than 400 million web users is still valid.

Google China spokeswoman Marsha Wang, who said the company, was still awaiting a final decision, explained that its ICP licence remains valid as long as the government has not expressly rejected it.

“The licence runs till 2012. The licence needs to be checked every year,” Wang told foreign news agency.”Everything will be as usual if the company passes the check,” she said, however adding that the government could opt to cancel the licence ahead of the 2012 deadline.

Pak to enhance cooperation with Sudan in agri sector: Gondal

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Sudan would constitute a joint working group to enhance cooperation in agriculture field between the two brotherly countries.

“A joint working group is to be formed, consisting specialists on wheat, cotton and livestock that would suggest ways for cooperation,” Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar M. Gondal said during a meeting with Sudanese Ambassador to Pakistan, Mohammad Omer Musa.

The experts from both the countries must identify various areas for mutual cooperation, he said adding that both the countries could benefit a lot from each other’s potentials.

“We are quite advanced in agricultural research and can help a lot in that area,” Gondal said adding that Sudanese Agriculture Minister has already been invited to visit Pakistan and see things for himself.

Gondal said that exchange of elite genetic resources of field and horticulture crops like sugarcane, dates, tomatoes and water melon would benefit both the countries.

He said that Pakistan could provide production and management technology related to agronomy, weed control, plant protection and harvesting to Sudan.

China’s TGC to invest in Pakistan’s energy sector

BEIJING: China’s Three Gorges Corporation (TGC) has expressed agreement to make 10 billion dollar investment in energy sector in Pakistan.

Talking to media after holding meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari here, the chairman TGC Mr. Koing Jang said that a dam with capacity to generate 7000-megawatt electricity in Bonji place of Gilgit-Baltistan while another dam with capacity to generate 1200-megawatt electricity will be built in Gohala place.

Earlier, the President of a local bank also held meeting with President Zardai.

US House of Representatives approves Iran sanctions

The US House of Representatives on Friday voted to bar companies that do business with Iran’s energy sector or provide Tehran with sensitive weapons technology from getting US military contracts.
It is time to present a simple choice: Companies can prop up the dangerous rouge regime in Iran, or they can do business with the US government and Department of Defence, not both, said Democratic Representative Ron Klein. Lawmakers voted 416-1 to attach the measure to an annual military spending bill, which passed later by a 229-186 margin. Klein’s amendment would require companies to certify to the Pentagon that they do not do business with Iran as a condition for eligibility for US defense contracts. The measure would apply to firms that invest more than 20 million dollars in one year in Iran’s energy sector, or sell Iran any technology that could help Tehran develop weapons of mass destruction, or provide destabilizing numbers and types of advanced conventional weapons to the Islamic republic. To become law, the House and Senate must pass identical bills, or merge their rival versions into a compromise they can approve and send to President Barack Obama to sign.

KSE sustains over 10,600 level this week

KARACHI: The benchmark KSE 100-share Index for the first time after August 2008 surged above 10,600 level and managed to sustain it this week with a gain of 72 points.

The share market began the week with positive numbers, as local and foreign investors took interest in buying stocks in energy sector and other shares available at dips.

The index closed this week with an increase of 72 points at 10,659, highest level since August 2008.

TRG Pakistan and WorldCall topped the list of front runners.

On the other hand KSE-30 Index closed 22 points up at 10,877.

US, India seal key part of nuclear deal

WASHINGTON: The United States and India have reached an agreement on reprocessing nuclear material, a key element of a landmark atomic energy pact, the State Department said Monday.

The agreement, under which India will be able to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from the United States, was one of the remaining hurdles to the full implementation of the 2008 agreement.

“Completion of these arrangements will facilitate participation by US firms in India”s rapidly expanding civil nuclear energy sector,” the State Department said in a statement.

US to Invest $ 1 Bln in Pakistan Energys Ector

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: The United Stated would invest $ 1 billion in Pakistan’s energy sector, said US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke.

The top US envoy in a function at Economic Affairs Division (EAD) said his county would invest $ 1 billion in Pakistan’s energy sector, adding that the money would be released in next four years. He said the US would also assist Pakistan in repairing 11 thousand tube wells.

Holbrooke said misunderstandings exist in Pakistani media regarding United States.

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US to Invest $ 1 Bln in Pakistan Energys Ector was first posted on January 13, 2010 at 3:21 pm.

Asif Zardari Rejects US Timeline For Fighting Tribal Insurgents

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Whooping Crane Death

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