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.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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