BEIJING: China’ largest company, Ali Baba.com providing business information through Internet was seen making 100 percent annual profit at a time when the markets all across the world were in the grip of deep depression.Ali Baba.com said that the company posted profit of Yuan780.2 million in the third quarter of the current year, which as compared to the same period last year remained higher by 37 percent and as against second quarter higher by over 6 percent. Company’s CEO said that despite depression in the global market, Ali Baba.com was growing and during January-September, the company’s profit was recorded at 100 percent.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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