US lawmakers plan squeeze on Chevron in Myanmar
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Proposed sanctions introduced in the US House of Representatives would pressure US energy giant Chevron to pull its investment from Myanmar, which rights activists say is helping prop up the ruling military junta.
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The United States has added its voice to a chorus of international concern over the continued detention of Myanmar&#39;s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday pushed for new rules to stop American companies from buying illegally logged timber plundered from fragile forests around the world.
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US oil giant Chevron is poised to prove Cambodia is sitting on oil reserves worth $1 billion annually.
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House Democratic lawmakers on  Wednesday ramped up the pressure on the Justice Department to  fight a federal court ruling that could allow energy companies  to avoid paying the government billions of dollars in oil and  natural gas royalties.
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The United States, faulted by  critics for a slow and miserly response to the Asian tsunami,  is preparing an aid package to be introduced in Congress early  next year, lawmakers said on Thursday.
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The lawmaker poised to cause the Bush administration's biggest headaches when Democrats take control of Congress may just be a grocer's son from Watts who's hardly a household name off Capitol Hill.
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The US Department of Defense has notified Congress that it plans to sell Taiwan missiles worth 421 million US dollars, which would help boost the island's defenses against rival China.
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U.S. House of Representatives  lawmakers this week will propose restricting ownership of banks  by commercial companies in a legislative push to derail the  efforts of retailing giants to move into financial services.
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The Bush administration urged the Myanmar government on Thursday to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, saying a failure to do so would represent "unacceptable backtracking."
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President George W. Bush is set to announce new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar over human rights as the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders gets under way on Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush announced new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar on Tuesday as world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly focused on rising protests against military rule in the Southeast Asian state.
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With oil near $50 a barrel, the Bush  administration is set to allow oil refineries to borrow from  the government's emergency petroleum stockpile to make up for  supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, a congressional source  briefed on the pending decision told Reuters on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush expanded US sanctions against Burma's rulers yesterday, accusing them of "vicious persecution" of democracy protesters, and urged China and India to step up pressure on their neighbor.
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US companies are expected to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars in relief aid to tsunami-hit Asia, but some may be slower to help since the sudden disaster
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With oil prices close to $50 a  barrel, the Bush administration is set to allow oil refineries  to borrow crude from the government's emergency petroleum  stockpile to make up for supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan,  a congressional source briefed on the pending decision told  Reuters on Thursday.
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President Bush is expected to ask Congress next month for roughly &#36;1 billion for continued U.S. aid for victims of the calamitous Indian Ocean tsunami, lawmakers said Wednesday.