SHANGHAI (Reuters) – General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of 2 billion yuan ($293 million).

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France has received a list of 3,000 French taxpayers with bank accounts in Switzerland as part of a double taxation agreement signed between the two countries last week, according to a report in a French newspaper Sunday. French Budget Minister Eric Woerth…

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Brian Viloria earned a 12-round, unanimous decision over Jesus Iribe to retain the IBF light flyweight championship on Saturday night. Viloria, nicknamed “The Hawaiian Punch,” controlled the fast-paced bout in front of his hometown crowd, starting and ending…

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Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter. Instead the researchers sought to create an open network for…

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Marcela Alvarez builds passenger seats at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont. She has three children and a husband who is out of work. Alvarez showed up in front of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in downtown San Francisco Saturday with…

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Brian Viloria earned a 12-round, unanimous decision over Jesus Iribe to retain the IBF light flyweight championship on Saturday night. The Hawaiian Punch (26-2) controlled the fast-paced bout in front of his hometown crowd, starting and ending with a flurry…

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Japan voted Sunday in parliamentary elections expected to end the ruling conservative party’s nearly 54 years in power and give a largely untested opposition a chance to make good on its promises to revive the ailing economy and turn around record-high…

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Regulators clamped down last fall on shady sales practices for privately run Medicare health insurance for the elderly. New regulations for the plans, known as Medicare Advantage, banned unsolicited phone calls and door-to-door sales. They stopped agents from…

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General Motors China and state-owned automaker FAW Group Corp. launched a 2 billion yuan ($293 million) joint venture Sunday to make light-duty trucks and vans, initially for the fast-growing Chinese market. GM said the joint venture will use two existing…

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The roughly 370,000 employees of Volkswagen and Porsche are striving initially to acquire a stake of up to 5 percent in the automotive group, VW’s labor chief told a German newspaper.

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The global financial crisis has highlighted a curious success story: A bank that doles out loans to some of the world’s poorest, least-creditworthy people continues to have a payback rate of nearly 100 percent. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, known…

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