South Korea is planning to allow the use of “poison pills to help local companies fend off hostile takeovers as the influence of foreign investors grows in Asia’s fifth-largest economy.The justice ministry said it was holding a public hearing on Mon
Commons Speaker John Bercow won a standing ovation from members of the UK Youth Parliament after launching an attack on the evil of the BNP.He told them the BNP was a poison which we could well do without . Mr Bercow was speaking at the end of an
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two conservation groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for its decision to register pesticides that curtail prairie dogs. Defenders of Wildlife and Audubon of Kansas, which filed the federal lawsuit last week in Was
BEIJING - Police in central China detained 15 parents for blocking roads and damaging government offices in a protest over factory pollution that left hundreds of local children with lead poisoning, villagers said Wednesday. In a bizarre twist, poli
SAN FRANCISCO - Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field almost 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medica
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