After rising strongly for a decade, foreign direct investment by Chinese companies fell by 5% in the first six months of the year, compared with a year earlier.Businesses are adapting to more abstemious times.
So for almost a decade, foreign explorers were banned from Ecuador in order to give the country time to establish a formal royalty system and implement an official set of regulations.
JERUSALEM — Israel threatened Sunday to bar for up to a decade any foreign journalist who boards a flotilla seeking to challenge an Israeli naval blockade of Gaza.
The government was successful at containing opposition for almost a decade, and foreign investment that had been briefly withdrawn in the early 1960s returned.
He has spent more than a decade covering foreign affairs for the Guardian - with postings in New Delhi, Berlin and Russia - and has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones.
Less than a decade ago foreign games, such as South Korea's "The Legend of Mir II", accounted for 70% of China's online gaming market; now they make up just one-third.
A presidential election in April will select Afghanistan's first new ruler in more than a decade, and foreign combat troops finish their mission, leaving the Afghan police and army to battle the Taliban alone.
After a decade as foreign minister, she now serves in his cabinet as minister for home affairs.Meanwhile, the indefatigable Mr Zuma has just completed an exchange of premarital gifts with Gloria Bongi Ngema, who works for IBM in Johannesburg and has a young son by the president.
Mr Obama has been trying to find a balance between the US role as a world leader and an American public that mostly wants to forget about the world after a decade of foreign conflicts.
Another protester, Gay Liberation Network's Brent Holman-Gomez, spoke to how DOMA has prevented him from sponsoring his partner of more than a decade, a foreign national, for citizenship.
We've had a decade of foreign war, triple-dip recessions, the Big Tasty, thigh gaps, we don't and can't make anything for ourselves any more and all our fish are cashing in their chips.
