By Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, November 19, 2007; Page A12 MEXICO CITY -- Long before the devastating flooding this month in the state of Tabasco, Mexico's behemoth state-run oil company, Petr leos Mexicanos, was pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into local government coffers for flood abatement projects. By Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, November 19, 2007; Page A12 MEXICO CITY -- Long before the devastating flooding this...

Featured panelists and speakers will include Bill Morris, managing director of Accenture Canada; David Wolf, head of Canadian economics and chief strategist at Merrill Lynch Canada inc.; Jeff Sanford, writer for Canadian Business; and Benjamin Tal, a senior economist at CIBC World Markets. Featured panelists and speakers will include Bill Morris, managing director of Accenture Canada; David Wolf, head of Canadian economics and chief strategist at Merrill Lynch Canada inc.; Jeff Sanford,...

Based on the vintage of the cartridges and the buffalo hide scraper, he conjectures the treasures have been there since 1870, give or take a few years. Over the next few hours and days, their excitement grew in tandem as they located artifact after artifact lying exposed on the charred ground. They noted the distribution of the artifacts, mapped and photographed them, laid out a grid and completed a metal detector survey. It's standard after an archaeological survey on traditional tribal...

Still a young country, having gained independence in 1962 after a brutal civil war, Algeria casts its eyes north towards the Mediterranean, and the European markets beyond. Behind, the desert wastes of the Sahara that cover two-thirds of this vast country conceal the mineral wealth driving the country's economic aspirations. This sprawling country, the size of western Europe, boasts generous reserves of oil and gas, a young, educated population and a gradually growing consumer demand. The...

BUILT on a former timber logging area, the Borneo Highlands Resort is a unique eco-friendly luxury residential development in Southeast Asia that is set to penetrate the international market starting next year. Standing at 1,000 metres above sea level atop the Penrissen mountain ranges and literally a stone's throw away from the southwest Kalimantan border, about 25 per cent of the total area of 2,097ha of land has been developed so far by promoting the "Back to Nature, Back to Basics"...