U.S. auto sales slid 17 percent in July as Americans shunned trucks and opted for more fuel-efficient cars, catapulting Japan's Toyota past Ford Motor Co. into the No. 2 spot for the first time...

The President’s Office made public Vietnam’s new law on Social Insurance Friday July 21, 2006, introducing voluntary social insurance and unemployment insurance, as well as three other new laws...

Vaccine Stops Big Eaters Getting Fat, scientists from the Scripps Research Institute gave 17 rats a series of injections and found the over-eaters put on weight at a significantly reduced rate...

Smokers Can Afford Life Insurance, if you've been putting off shopping for life insurance because you're a smoker, it's time to start shopping around to find more favorable rates...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson voiced support for a strong dollar and said America "must welcome competition, not run away from it" if the country wants to maintain a competitive advantage...

Breastfeeding can actually save Philippine P21.5 billion in infant formula products which poor folk can use for food, housing, education and other basic necessities, the Department of Health said...

Salary pension schemes will be finalized by 2012, the majority of Britain's 100 biggest companies will shut their final salary pension schemes to existing workers and new members within 6 years...

Core US consumer prices rose a moderate 0.2% in June for a third straight month, but the year-on-year rate hit a nearly four-year high, keeping markets on edge over a possible interest-rate hike...