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TOKYO - Runaway oil prices will be a focus of finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized countries meeting this week in Japan who are hoping to calm global jitters about a series of looming economic problems.

The U.S. economy grew at a tepid 0.6 percent annual pace for the first three months in 2008, according to Commerce Department figures released Wednesday, confounding watchers of the economy who anticipated the makings of a recession.

BANGKOK, April 22 (TNA) -- In an attempt to boost the real estate sector in Thailand as well as assisting the poor to be able to own their own homes, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved additional measures to stimulate the economy, which it targeted to grow b