PR-inside.com) HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam's inflation rate reached nearly 23 percent in 2008, the highest in nearly two decades, according to government figures released Thursday.The consumer price index rose 22.97 percent in the past 12 months, the government said,

PR-inside.com) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco International Airport is planning to give guilt-ridden travelers a chance to offset the air pollution emitted from their plane rides.The airport says it will set up a series of kiosks so travelers can

PR-inside.com) TOKYO (AP) - As Toyota Motor Corp. faces its biggest crisis, speculation is growing that the charismatic grandson of the company's founder may take over leadership of the automaker sooner than expected.Japan's nationally circulated Asahi newspaper reported Tuesday that

More than five million people are expected to use the internet to carry on shopping on Christmas Day, the online retail group IMRG says.

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Yuschenko gave his assessment at a press conference.

In particular, the Cabinet of Ministers will consider feasibility reports on construction, reconstruction, and overhaul of the Kyiv-Kharkiv-Debaltseve-Izvarino highway (М-03-М-04), the Kyiv-Kovel-Yahodin highway (M-097), the Ulianova-Mykolaiv-Kherson-Krasnoperekopsk-Simferopol highway (М-23, М-14, М-24).

Tymoshenko made the accusation at a news briefing.

Ukrainian News learned this from a source in the Cabinet of Ministers.

The Presidential Secretariat's first deputy head Oleksandr Shlapak announced this at a news briefing.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia, the wording of which was made available to the agency.

Yuschenko said that the last part of the debt will be paid in January-March 2009.

Gazprom's official representative Sergei Kupriyanov made this announcement during a television link-up.

According to currency dealers for commercial banks, the hryvnia's exchange rate fluctuated within 7.90-8.20 UAH/USD at the start of the trading, then narrowed to 7.90-8.00 UAH/USD, and fell to 7.70-7.95 by the end of the trading.

At the consultations on entrepreneurship regulation issues a decision was adopted to maintain the existing taxation principle.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka thinks private business in Belarus mustn't be shut in from challenges of the state.