READY TO HELP: Minister of Finance Lee Sush-der said the finance ministry would ask four investment funds to make ‘necessary’ injections in the local stock market
By Flora Wang
Under pressure to curb the impact of plummeting global stock markets, the Cabinet said last night it would halve the daily drop limit on the stock market for one week.

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Global finance ministers kept searching for ways to tackle the unfolding financial crisis, turning their attention to its effects on rapidly developing countries and poor nations at risk of being swept up in the turmoil.

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North Korea said yesterday it would resume its work to disable plutonium-producing nuclear plants and readmit UN inspectors after the US removed it from a terrorism blacklist.

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The latest in a barrage of suspected US missile strikes in Pakistan’s northwest killed five people, but none was believed to be a foreign al-Qaeda fighter, officials said yesterday.

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CATCHING UP: The plan is part of a wider overhaul aimed at reducing the gaping rural-urban income gap that has expanded during 30 years of capitalist policies
The Chinese Communist Party approved a major economic reform plan yesterday to allow farmers to trade and mortgage their land rights and bolster the nation’s food security.

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