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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration aims to cut around 65% of staff at the Environmental Protection Agency, a key regulatory body that works on a range of areas, including climate change."I spoke with Lee Zeldin and he thinks he's going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from environmental," he said, referring to the EPA administrator.The agency currently employs more than 17,000 of the roughly two million total U.S. federal workforce.Trump has made slashing the size of the federal government a key priority in his first days in office, tasking Elon Musk, the world's...

China's share index ends year down 65% Robin Pagnamenta China’s stock market became the worst major performing index in the world for 2008, ending the year down 65 per cent. The annual drop, triggered by a broadening global economic malaise that has punctured China’s unprecedented economic boom, was the biggest in the index’s 18-year history, wiping out nearly $3 trillion in market value — not far off the total value of the country's $3.4 trillion annual gross domestic product. Shanghai’s benchmark composite Index dropped 0.66 per cent today to end the year at 1,820.8 points. The index had glanced an...

We all know that notebooks are quickly overtaking PCs in terms of deployed numbers, but just how fast are people adopting them? With a significant rise in notebook sales this year, some are putting the notebook to PC ratio figure at over two thirds when it comes to sales: About 65 percent of all PCs sold at the stores surveyed by Current Analysis--Best Buy, Radio Shack, Circuit City, CompUSA and Staples--were notebooks, said Sam Bhavnani, an analyst with the firm. Last year, the mix was about half and half between notebooks and desktops. What does this mean for the future...