Environment and economy. It seems the answer to the two issues that figured prominently in Wednesday night’s all-candidates meeting is for them to work together. [...]

KAHULUI - The good news is, in Maui County economic contractions are shorter than expansions. The bad news is, we're in a contraction now. The 34th annual Maui County Business Outlook Forum at the Maui Beach Hotel was easily the most downbeat in decades

BUSINESS confidence slipped to a new seven-year low in the second quarter of this year, knocked by higher interest rates, rising food and fuel prices and attacks on foreign workers, a key survey showed yesterday.

Despair about a weakening economy is sweeping through Wall Street, despite the bail out passed by Congress last week. Today, the Dow Jones dropped below the 10,000 mark for the first time in four years.

The business park sector in China is still in its infancy with a development history of little more than 10 years, yet the sector is now firmly poised for lift-off as the property market responds to the increasing requirements for high-quality decentraliz