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AIGtogive back$50m in bonus cash
Al l’, Washington
Executives with AIG's financial products division have agreed to pay back 50 million dollars in bonuses amid outcry over the insurance giant's use of taxpayer cash for executive perks, officials said.
The agreement comes as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke face a grilling from lawmakers Tuesday over government aid for the troubled .American International Group.
The US government has so far pumped around 170 billion dollars into the multi-national insurance titan to keep it afloat, fearing its collapse could deepen a marketwide liquidity crisis.
Fifteen of the top 20 bosses who received big bonus checks after the US government doled out cash to rescue AIG will give back their bonuses, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said late Monday.
The 15 executives from the financial products' unit are expected to return 30 million dollars in cash. Cuomo said a total of 50 million dollars, including bonuses from other employees of the unit, was to be returned.
"I would like to say this to the individuals who have given the money back: You have done the right thing. You have done what this country now needs and demands'," Cuomo said in a statement.
Arroyo says 41,000 Philippine jobs lost to crisis
AFP, Manila
At least 41,000 people in the Philippines have lost their jobs amid the global downturn, President Gloria Arroyo said Tuesday.
The number includes overseas-based contract workers sent home from recession-hit host economies as well as employees in local factories reeling from slumping global demand, she said in an interview on government radio.
The total was up 6,000 from figures released by the labour department earlier this month.
Arroyo said die updated total included some expatriate workers who came back from Dubai and Qatar, as well as those retrenched from export-oriented industries" in the Philippines.
"Two-thirds of the world is in recession. So far the Philippines is not in recession and we want to ensure we are not dragged down there, " she said.
The government's focus is on "creating or saving jobs as well as to keep inflation down," she said.
The January 2009 jobless rate stood at 7.7 percent or 2.855 million, up 0.3 percentage points or 180,000 from a year earlier.
Manila will continue to put into effect targetted subsidies to the poorest Filipinos" so they will have access to cheap rice and transportation.
Obama sees good signs in US economy
AfP, Washington
President Barack Obama has expressed growing confidence in efforts to revive the economy ahead of a White House press conference on Tuesday aimed at rallying Americans behind his reform and recovery efforts.
The showpiece White House event is the culmination of a week-long public relations offensive designed to raise Obama's agenda above the clamor of a row over AIG bonus payments and opposition Republican carping at his sweeping spending plans.
The news conference at 8:00 pm (0000 GMT) follows two television interviews and a tour of California last week.
The press conference will take place a day after Obama said he detected "glimmers of hope" in the housing sector and stocks soared nearly seven percent, in a rare moment of respite for the new administration.
The president said he was "very confident" in the effort to revive banks by offering government incentives for private investors to buy up to a trillion dollars in toxic assets which choked lending and sparked the recession.
Vietnam's first-quarter inflation almost 14.5pc
AFP, Hanoi
Vietnam said Tuesday that inflation was almost 14.5 percent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2009 as consumer prices continued to ease from a record high seen last year.
Much of the 14.47 percent hike came from a sharp rise in the cost of food, which was up more than 22 percent over the same three-month period in 2008, the Government Statistics Office (GSO) said.
Compared with February, consumer prices in March were down 0.17 percent, according to GSO estimates.
It said food prices were down 0.46 percent month-on-month, as the global slowdown takes a toll on the nation's formerly red-hot economy, which is heavily reliant on exports.
The economy overheated last year, leading to record 28.3 percent inflation in August. The government began tightening monetary and fiscal policy, raising interest rates in a bid to tackle double-digit inflation, a move the World Bank has described as "a phenomenal success".