International

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 21:49 UTC

  Canada suffers 17th case of mad cow and is categorized as “controlled risk”

  

  The president of Canada Beef Export Federation says the country's 17th case of mad cow disease has not affected markets. The beef cow was born in 2004 in Alberta, and the fatal degenerative brain disease was confirmed on Feb. 25, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported on its website.

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 21:45 UTC

  Spanish ports handled 6 million cruise passengers in 2009, a 3% expansion

  

  Spanish ports reported growth in cruise passenger numbers last year, despite the impact of the economic downturn on the country’s tourism sector. The country’s state-owned ports handled just over 6 million passengers last year, a 3% increase over figures for 2008.

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 21:36 UTC

  Gibraltar participates in leading Cruise convention in Miami

  

  The Port of Gibraltar is participating of the 26th edition of the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention, which opened at the Miami Beach Convention Centre in Florida. The international exhibition and conference is recognised as the leading cruise industry event.

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 20:07 UTC

  Controversy in UK over cuts in military training to save money

  

  A record 80 training exercises were cancelled last year By the UK Ministry of Defense while the number of British troops in Helmand reached 10,000.

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 19:58 UTC

  Internet celebrates 25th anniversary of dotcom domain name

  

  It was not until the late 1990s that it really took off but today the internet celebrates the 25th birthday of the dotcom domain name. On 15 March 1985, the first company to add dotcom to its name was a computer maker named Symbolics.

• Monday, March 15th 2010 - 19:56 UTC

  Unemployment fears threaten UK recovery says Bank of England

  

  Unemployment threatens to hamper the UK economic recovery as worried households cut back on spending, the Bank of England has warned. The latest quarterly bulletin said there was a risk of rising dole queues if “the recovery in demand proves more sluggish than businesses have expected”.

• Saturday, March 13th 2010 - 02:23 UTC

  China calls on US not to make the Yuan de facto dollar peg “a political issue”

  

  The United States should not make a political issue out of the Yuan, a Chinese central banker said as the long running friction between the world’s two leading economies approaches a critical deadline.

• Saturday, March 13th 2010 - 01:56 UTC

  Google will “pay the consequences” if it does not comply with China’s filtering

  

  China's top internet official has warned that Google will “pay the consequences” if it continues to go against Chinese law. Google announced in January that it would no longer comply with China's internet censorship laws.

• Saturday, March 13th 2010 - 00:55 UTC

  To be a good journalist, first you must be a good Marxist, says Beijing

  

  Chinese journalist must take tests on Marxist theory and the Chinese Communist Party is the last of Beijing’s drive to improve standards and ensure closer adherence to government media policies, reports said this week.

• Saturday, March 13th 2010 - 00:45 UTC

  China with 54 billionaires, only second to the US, says Forbes

  

  India and China may still be considered developing countries, but that has not stopped them from producing some of the world's richest people.