07/06 Nga kiên quyết ủng hộ dùng năng lượng hạt nhân


07/06/2011 | 07:55:00

Một nhà máy điện hạt nhân của Nga. (Nguồn: Internet)
Sau sự cố hạt nhân ở Nhật Bản do động đất-sóng thần gây ra, Nga là một trong những nước vẫn kiên quyết ủng hộ việc sử dụng năng lượng hạt nhân.

"Sử dụng năng lượng hạt nhân là yếu tố có ý nghĩa sống còn đối với sự phát triển trong tương lai của nền kinh tế thế giới." Người đứng đầu cơ quan hạt nhân Liên bang Nga Rosatom, ông Sergei Kiriyenko, đưa ra nhận định này ngày 6/6 trong bài phát biểu khai mạc Hội nghị quốc tế về năng lượng hạt nhân ở thủ đô Mátxcơva của Nga.

Theo ông Kiriyenko, năng lượng hạt nhân là đầu máy kéo nền kinh tế thế giới. Trong 10 năm tới, năng lượng hạt nhân là điều kiện cần thiết đảm bảo kinh tế thế giới phát triển an toàn và ổn định.

Đối với nhiều người, tiếp cận với năng lượng là điều kiện để họ sống và phát triển bình thường. Vì vậy, không ai có quyền ngăn cản một quốc gia tiếp cận với nguồn năng lượng đáng tin cậy và ổn định này.

Ông Kiriyenko nhấn mạnh thế giới phải có những đảm bảo tuyệt đối để năng lượng hạt nhân thực sự an toàn. Điều này đồng nghĩa phải có những giải pháp mang tính hệ thống, bắt đầu bằng việc thay đổi luật pháp quốc tế.

Người đứng đầu cơ quan hạt nhân Nga đưa ra những nhận xét trên trong bối cảnh Chính phủ Đức cùng ngày đã thông qua dự luật từng bước ngừng sử dụng hạt nhân vào năm 2020.

Sau sự cố hạt nhân ở Nhật Bản do động đất và sóng thần gây ra, Nga nổi lên là một trong những nước vẫn kiên quyết ủng hộ việc sử dụng năng lượng hạt nhân. Tổng thống nước này Dmitry Medvedev đã đề xuất xây dựng công ước mới về an toàn hạt nhân.

Với chủ đề "Ngừng hay tiếp tục sử dụng năng lượng hạt nhân," hội nghị quốc tế về năng lượng hạt nhân ở Nga sẽ kéo dài đến ngày 8/6./.
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03/06 SEC may rebuke Lehman rather than sue: report


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NEW YORK | Fri Jun 3, 2011 9:07pm EDT
(Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission may issue a public rebuke of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc and former executives rather than sue them for actions that led to the firm's 2008 bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing three people with direct knowledge of the matter.
The SEC's enforcement lawyers are worried that a legal attack on Lehman's accounting practices would fail, the people cited by Bloomberg said.
Instead, the enforcement staff may recommend that the agency publish a so-called report of investigation, also known as a 21(a) report. outlining allegations of misconduct without imposing penalties, Bloomberg said.
Lehman filed the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history in September 2008.
Am SEC representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Phil Wahba; Editing by Gary Hill)

06/06 China paper warns Google may pay price for hacking claims


A photo of the Google Inc. logo is shown on a computer screen in San Francisco, California July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
BEIJING | Mon Jun 6, 2011 2:42am EDT
(Reuters) - Google has become a "political tool" vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. Internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business.
The tough warning appeared in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the leading newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, indicating that political tensions between the United States and China over Internet security could linger.
Last week, Google said it had broken up an effort to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including U.S. government officials, Chinese human rights advocates and journalists. It said the attacks appeared to come from China.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry rejected those accusations, and the party newspaper warned Google against playing a risky political game.
By saying that Chinese human rights activists were among the targets of the hacking, Google was "deliberately pandering to negative Western perceptions of China, and strongly hinting that the hacking attacks were the work of the Chinese government," the People's Daily overseas edition, a small offshoot of the main domestic paper, said in a front-page commentary.
"Google's accusations aimed at China are spurious, have ulterior motives, and bear malign intentions," said the commentary, written by an editor at the paper.
"Google should not become overly embroiled in international political struggle, playing the role of a tool for political contention," the paper added.
"For when the international winds shift direction, it may become sacrificed to politics and will be spurned by the marketplace," it said, without specifying how Google's business could be hurt.
The latest friction with Google could bring Internet policy back to the foreground of U.S.-China relations, reprising tensions last year when the Obama administration took up Google's complaints about hacking and censorship from China.
Google partly pulled out of China after that dispute. Since then, it has lost more share to rival Baidu Inc in China's Internet market, the world's largest by user numbers with more than 450 million users.
Google last week that the hacking attacks appeared to come from Jinan, the capital of China's eastern Shandong province and home to an intelligence unit of the People's Liberation Army.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates over the weekend warned that Washington was prepared to use force against cyber-attacks it considered acts of war.
In February, overseas Chinese websites, inspired by anti-authoritarian uprisings across the Arab world, called for protests across China, raising Beijing's alarm about dissent and prompting tightened censorship of the Internet.
China already blocks major foreign social websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
(Editing by Miral Fahmy.)

06/06 Oil dips, weak U.S. jobs data continues to weigh








An employee holds a gas pump to refill a car at a petrol station in central Seoul April 6, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won

PERTH | Mon Jun 6, 2011 1:52am EDT
(Reuters) - Brent crude slipped toward $115 a barrel on Monday on concerns about demand after disappointing jobs data from top consumer United States, while investors eyed an OPEC meeting later this week to see if the group would lift output.
Gulf Arab members led by Saudi Arabia will push for a rise in oil supply, but were likely to face opposition from OPEC's leading hawks Iran and Venezuela.
"Today there is no shortage of supply. OPEC will do its job," the chief executive of the French energy giant Total (TOTF.PA) said at a conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Brent crude fell 43 cents to $115.41 a barrel by 0516 GMT (12:16 a.m. ET), after settling up 30 cents on Friday. U.S. crude slipped 28 cents to $99.94 a barrel.
A softer dollar and political upheaval in the Middle East, however, kept a floor under oil prices.
"We are going to have sideways trade, basically because the weaker economy means weaker crude oil prices because of less demand in the U.S., but we have Yemen that's going to keep it high (along with) the weaker dollar," Tony Nunan, a risk manager with Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Corp, said.
U.S. data showed payrolls rose by 54,000 in May, the softest reading since September, and the country's jobless rate rose to 9.1 percent in May from 9 percent in April.
Falling oil demand and higher supplies in the world's largest economy are pushing prices lower, analysts said. U.S. crude oil stocks rose in the week to May 27 to their highest seasonal level for May since 1990.
TransCanada Corp's (TRP.TO) 591,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone pipeline -- which carries oil from Alberta to the U.S. oil hub of Cushing -- resumed shipping crude oil, one week after being shut by a leak at a Kansas pumping station, the Calgary-based company said in a statement.
Technical charts indicated that oil prices may drop in the short term, with Brent expected to slip to $112 per barrel and U.S. oil expected to revisit the Friday low of $98.12 per barrel.
The dollar .DXY was almost flat against a basket of major currencies, after sliding to a one-month low earlier in the day as the jobs data bolstered expectations that U.S. interest rates will stay low for longer. The index has lost almost 7 percent so far this year.
"The value of the dollar and the way it's declining is keeping some of these commodities at levels which are not sustainable," Jonathan Barratt, managing director of Commodity Broking Services in Sydney, said.
MIDDLE EAST SUPPORTS
Violence in the Middle East underpinned prices due to worries that instability could spill over to some of the world's largest oil and gas producers and disrupt global supplies.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was recovering from an operation in Saudi Arabia to remove shrapnel from his chest while a truce between his troops and a tribal federation appeared to be holding.
Protesters, interpreting Saleh's absence as a sign that his grip on power was weakening, celebrated on the streets of Sanaa where they have been staging anti-government demonstrations since January.
Syrian forces shot dead 31 people during demonstrations in a northwestern town and official media said gunmen killed four policemen in the same town.
Protests against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad have grown despite reform gestures dismissed by the opposition and a continuing crackdown that has killed at least 1,100 people since the uprising erupted two months ago.