South Korea's economic growth was slower in the third quarter than originally estimated, the central bank said Tuesday, further evidence that Asia's fourth-largest economy is being hit by the global meltdown.
Brazil plans to boost spending and programs to significantly slow destruction of the Amazon rain forest by 2017, aiming to reduce global warming by slashing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted when trees are burned.
Hawaiian Telcom Communications Inc., the largest telephone company in Hawaii, said Monday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.