Company Watch - Northwest Airlines.
Apr 28, 2008 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines timed the proposal to ensure Bush administration antitrust review. The Justice Department is expected to take several months and will focus on how a merged company would affect domestic competition. Some antitrust and other industry experts believe the...

The calm after the storm: former Marsh CEO Brian Storms finally speaks--about his new job and the stress he's left behind.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BRIAN STORMS was named CEO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based independent technology company APX on Jan. 31 after leaving Marsh last fall. What do you do after you leave the job as CEO of the world's largest insurance brokerage firm? You become the CEO...

Global food shortages, rising prices threaten public health: advocates call for food aid restructuring.
EVEN THOUGH it tops global development goals at No. 1, eliminating hunger may be moving even farther from the world's grasp. Rising food prices are pushing the planet's poorest communities further into poverty and threatening to unravel hard-won successes in health and economic opportunity. A collision of...

Alliance to Save Energy Urges Congress to Adopt Energy-Efficiency Policies.
ENERGY RESOURCE-9 April 2008-Alliance to Save Energy Urges Congress to Adopt Energy-Efficiency Policies(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com The Alliance to Save Energy today urged consumers to help tackle spiraling energy prices by reducing consumption and urged Congress to adopt new energy-efficiency policies. Such steps are the best ways...

Fungal threat to region's food security.
A NEW AND VIRULENT agricultural fungus, previously found in Yemen and East Africa, has invaded major wheat growing areas of the Middle East. The infestation has put Iran on high alert along with several other important cereal producing countries close by, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. ...

Airline Finance News - Asia / Pacific.
Apr 28, 2008 Air China, AirPlus Business travel payment provider AirPlus International and Air China have partnered to create an account which gives corporate clients and TMCs a more convenient payment option on the carrier's national and international flights. Air China AirPlus Company Account will...

Report: Expect Big Rate Hikes by End of Summer.
ENERGY RESOURCE-12 May 2008-Report: Expect Big Rate Hikes by End of Summer(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Tradition Energy, a full-service energy management advisor and one of the nation's largest energy procurement firms, warns power customers to expect big rate hikes in the price of retail electricity in the...

LPG, gasoline hardest hit by EVAT; Petron, however, sees price rollback soon.
Byline: JUDE C. GALFORD III The implementation of the value added tax (E-VAT) law starting Nov. 1 will spur a new wave of hikes in the prices of commodities with the power and oil sectors expected to suffer the most impact, Sen. Mar Roxas bared yesterday. ...

6 reasons to kill farm subsidies and trade barriers: a no-nonsense reform strategy.
AMERICA'S AGRICULTURAL policies have remained fundamentally unchanged for nearly three-quarters of a century. The U.S. government continues to subsidize the production of rice, milk, sugar, cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and other commodities, while restricting imports to maintain artificially high domestic prices. The competition and innovation that have changed the face...

Agricultural trade disputes between Canada and the United States: costly but diminishing.
Agricultural trade between the United States and Canada has been an important feature of the bilateral relationship between the two countries for over 200 years, although trade disputes have also been common over that period. The conflicted nature of this relationship is illustrated by a sustained series of bilateral...