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Thailand’s former premier says his successor needs to give up her party’s pet projects to free up money for flood recovery.
Abhisit Vejjajiva, whose party lost to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s party this summer, says some campaign promises the government made must be sacrificed.
Abhisit spoke at a parliament session where Yingluck submitted a budget bill calling […]

Phil Rideout figures he has as much right to the Rally Squirrel as anyone else.
So the owner of a Fenton-based sports memorabilia business recently filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to obtain the registered trademark on “Rally Squirrel.”
But he’s not the only one vying to claim the furry rodent.
Sean Sullivan, an […]

The Missouri Legislature has acquired a do-nothing reputation lately, but you won’t hear folks in the biotechnology industry applying that label.
Legislators passed only two bills during their fall special session, but one of them was the Missouri Science and Innovation Research Act, a longtime priority for local technology boosters. MOSIRA sets up a funding source […]

British lawmaker Tom Watson plans to detail new findings of covert surveillance techniques employed by News Corp. that go “beyond phone hacking.”
Watson said the revelations planned at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Friday “will leave the company liable to civil liability but also huge reputational harm.”
News Corp. officials declined to comment.
Watson has spearheaded a 2 […]

Stocks slid in early trading Tuesday after disappointing corporate earnings reports and concerns that France and Germany may not reach an agreement to provide additional support for Greece.
Moody’s also warned late Monday that it may downgrade France’s top-notch credit rating in the next three months. On Tuesday, that country’s finance minister said that the French […]

Asian stocks surged Tuesday after a pledge by European leaders to protect the region’s banks against a continent-wide debt crisis and Beijing’s move to buy the shares of major Chinese lenders.
Oil prices hovered above $85 a barrel in Asia, while the dollar strengthened against the euro and the yen.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shot up 3 […]

The leaders of Germany and France, the eurozone’s two biggest economies, are meeting to discuss new measures to counter the bloc’s debt crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are holding the talks at Berlin’s chancellery to forge an agreement on the next steps in tackling the debt crisis ahead of a summit […]

The jobs crisis isn’t getting worse. But it isn’t getting much better, either.
The economy added just enough jobs last month to ease fears of a new recession. But hiring is still too weak to bring down unemployment, which has been stuck around 9 percent for more than two years.
The nation added 103,000 jobs in September, […]

A key central bank survey offered a cautiously optimistic assessment of corporate Japan, where business confidence is improving even as the global economy’s prospects darken.
In the Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey of business sentiment released Monday, the main index for big manufacturers climbed back into positive territory as a recovery from the March 11 […]

Stocks are closing higher for the third day in a row on hopes that European leaders are moving closer to a plan to contain that region’s debt crisis.
Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel said her country would do whatever it could to help Greece. Greece’s finance minister also said that country would receive the next round of […]