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Mr Streiff called the decision by the board of Europe's second-biggest carmaker to get rid of him without warning "incomprehensible" .

Dell said China is the company's second-biggest source of revenue, behind the U. S. , and is a key growth country for the computer maker.

Venezuela, the second-biggest producer, tends to keeps its rabbit at home and is not among the top-20 exporters.

Yesterday, the second-biggest stock in the Hang Seng index was back up to where it had traded before the closing auction.

Belize is home to the world's second biggest coral reef, and visitors should take a boat trip out to see it.

Between 2000 and 2006 the number of new cars sold grew by an average of 37% a year, making China the world's second-biggest market.

Swiss Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurer, said it would cut 10% of its global workforce within a year.

ANA, Japan's second-biggest carrier, said the aircraft would be delivered starting in 2013 at the earliest.

"We are the number one and second biggest economies of the world, " he said. "We will have to work together, hand in hand. "

VTB, Moscow's second biggest bank, said it had applied for VEB financing to help pay off $2. 3bn in foreign loans due this year.

The US bank is planning to sell part of its 9 per cent stake in China's second biggest bank, people familiar with the matter say.

The moves also come at a time when China's economy has just eclipsed Japan's as the world's second-biggest after the U. S.

Such a waiver has only been awarded to one company, Sino Gold Mining, an Australian group developing China's second biggest gold mine.

Deforestation is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, after power generation, accounting for a fifth of the total.

Mr. Di Risio said in an interview that Asia would be the second biggest market for Versace both in terms of revenue and investment.

That might be the cornerstone for an even bigger free-trade area eventually including China, the world's second-biggest economy.

That is only a few billion less than Oracle, the world's second-biggest software firm (the biggest is Microsoft).

But there's no doubt that China is now the second-biggest economy in the world after the US, and ahead of Japan.

China is now the company's second-biggest regional market behind the US.

The second biggest challenge is trying to stay inspired.

CHINA is now the world's second-biggest economy, but some of its provinces by themselves would rank fairly high in the global league.

And Turkey's army, NATO's second-biggest, has been trying to dislodge it ever since.

It owns Mexico's second-biggest bank and recently added to its American portfolio with a successful bid for Compass Bancshares.

The bail-out confirmed everyone's assumption that Abu Dhabi would not let the second-biggest member of the UAE fail.

France, which had the second-biggest share of oil deals under the programme, has also been beavering away.

Nor do they appear to be growing into the habit as they age, says Takashi Kasuya, an executive at Asahi, the second-biggest newspaper.

Sberbank intends to make Opel's technology available to its client, GAZ, Russia's second-biggest indigenous carmaker.

They see it as the country's second-biggest enemy after Georgia, which, since last August's war, is also a proxy for the United States.

But even with such a past, this year has been particularly fraught for America's second-biggest police force.

If Congo were to win, Angola's position as Africa's second biggest exporter of crude oil after Nigeria might well be threatened.

It planted flags all over the globe and became the world's second biggest supermarket chain by sales, after Walmart.

The United States is the world's largest producer and user beef as well as the biggest importer, Japan is the second biggest importer.

Mr. Yao's injury is a risk, too, for the NBA, which already counts China as its second-biggest market in revenue after the U. S.

The steel-rolling line is part of a sprawling complex in Anshan owned by Angang Steel, China's second-biggest steel company.

China's second-biggest telecommunications carrier, China Unicom, just dropped Google's search product from its newest smartphones.

His purchase of EDS had turned HP into the second-biggest provider of IT consulting and services, trailing only IBM.

China is the world's second biggest economy, but when it comes to business investment in other countries it is still a very small player.

Given that Japan is the world's second biggest owner of Treasuries, Mr Yosano may have been talking his own book.

It's going to be a difficult few months for South-East Asia's second-biggest economy.

The world's twelfth-largest economy, the United States' second-biggest trading partner and an important oil supplier?

Thousands of firefighters have been battling the blaze, dubbed the Wallow Fire, the second biggest in the history of Arizona.

A report by Micros suggests that interpersonal relationships are the second biggest problem experienced by freshmen.

Now digest the main historical event of this week: China has officially become the world's second-biggest economy, overtaking Japan.

Herry Zudianto, the mayor of Java's second-biggest city, Yogyakarta, is coming towards the end of a successful second term of office.

GM, China's second-biggest carmaker, reported $400m of equity income from its Chinese joint ventures in the first quarter of this year.

Our correspondent Laura Trevelyan is in Haiti's second biggest city, Leogane, where flooding remains a serious problem.

Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs's leave of absence spurred concern over the leadership of the world's second- biggest company.

Germany's second-biggest bank plans to boost capital by buying back debt as it prepares for new European banking rules.

For the moment, the world's potentially second biggest deal is becalmed.

For instance, India's drug companies are shut out of Japan, the world's second-biggest market for pharmaceuticals.

It happens to be Africa's second biggest maize producer and a big wheat producer too. But then look at Addis Ababa's grimy grain market.

Human trafficking is now the second-biggest criminal activity after arms dealing. It's more valuable than drugs.

Also called pumas, cougars , panthers, and catamounts, these lions are the second biggest cats in the Americas. Jaguars are the biggest.

The boss of Chevron, America's second - biggest oil firm, also worries that "another period of tight supply" is at hand .

Turkey is now the world's second-biggest maker of flat glass and Europe's third-biggest producer of televisions.

JFE, Japan's second biggest steelmaker, yesterday became the latest investor summarily to scrap long-standing investment plans.

While China appears poised to overtake Japan as the world's second biggest economy, it might also beat Japan in the business of golf.

Healthscope is Australia's second-biggest private hospital firm, but it also has operations in New Zealand and south-east Asia.

IT IS America's second-biggest civilian employer. It has more outlets than McDonald's, Wal-Mart and Starbucks combined.

This will cement its position through its Joint Venture with Dairy Farmers of America as the second biggest producer of hard cheeses there.

Disturbances were reported from nearly all parts of Syria, including in the second biggest city Aleppo.

Japan issued data Monday morning in Tokyo confirming that China has surpassed it as the world's second biggest economy.

Umberto Quadrino, the boss of Edison, Italy's second-biggest utility, agrees. He thinks Italy will have to reverse its ban on nuclear power.

Honda, Japan's second-biggest automaker, is in better shape than its largest domestic rivals.

TNT NV paced retreating shares after Europe's second-biggest express-delivery company reported an unexpected decline in profit.

Today, China is already the world's second biggest economy after America, beating Japan a few months ago.

If the Yankees , who have 28 games remaining, can win the division, it would be the second-biggest comeback ever.

Turkey is now the world's biggest cement exporter and second-biggest jewellery exporter.

Iraq recently recalculated its oil reserves to reflect undated technology and now says it has the world's second-biggest oil reserves.

But after a difficult start, Tata Motors is now India's second-biggest carmaker by sales.

The deal will make Tencent eLong's second biggest shareholder after Expedia, which owns 56 per cent of the company.

In many ways France, Europe's second-biggest economy, will be decisive for the future of reform across the entire euro area.

The second biggest turnoff for a girl is an 18 year old guy who's already thinking about marriage.

Transportation is now the second biggest household expense in the US after housing.

Yingkou is the second biggest port in Northeast China and its economic development has made great headway.

China is the world's second-biggest consumer of gold, after India, but is expected to take the top spot soon.

The hotel room at Novi Sad, Serbia's second biggest city, contained a nice big double bed . . .

Respondents cited the state of the world as their second biggest cause of stress.

The nation's second-biggest cigarette maker, Reynolds American Inc. 's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. , has said it opposes the bill.

Americans can hardly whinge that the biggest bank from the world's second-biggest economy has a growing presence in their country.

It has blossomed into the world's greatest exporter and second-biggest importer.

During the 18th century, the city had the reputation as France's second biggest slave trading port.

To this day it remains Africa's second-biggest producer of the metal, after South Africa, andthe world's ninth-biggest.

Still, such is China's thirst for energy that Sinopec has paid a bubble price for Europe's second-biggest independent producer.

The emperor of Japan, the prime minister and nearly half of the population of the world's second-biggest economy ride in Toyotas.

China is set to be the second-biggest testing ground for innovation in the world this year, Nielsen reckons.

The $800m-a-year film industry is the second-most-prolific in the world and Nigeria's second-biggest employer, after the government.

In the sugar market, prices have been driven higher by strong demand from India, the world's second-biggest producer.

TSMC's results come a day after Taiwan's UMC, the second biggest contract chipmaker, reported greatly improved results.

Iran is the second biggest crude oil producer in the Organisation of Oil Exporting Countries but it lacks refinery capacity.

The company raised HK$6. 8bn ($877m) last week in the territory's second biggest initial public offering this year.

It was the second-biggest shareholder in CCB at year-end, behind the Chinese government.

After the merger, the German state is set to remain the second-biggest VW shareholder.

The November auctions are usually the second biggest of the year, after the May sales.

Food and drink are the second biggest part of the average family expenses.

Now, as global marketing chief for Ford, he is hoping to push America's second-biggest carmaker to the leading edge of online advertising.

Reports suggest that VW will soon surpass General Motors as the second biggest automaker in the world after Toyota Motor Corporation.

China usurped it as the world's second-biggest economy in the second quarter of this year.

The median national home price declined 15. 5 percent in February from a year ago to $165, 400, the second biggest decline on record.

Netease, China's second-biggest online games operator, and the popular portal Sina also issued public apologies.

China's domestic airline market is the second biggest in the world measured by the number of passenger seats.

The November sales are usually the second biggest of the year, after the May sales.

China, the world's second biggest oil consumer, imports about half of what is uses-and that ratio is growing.

The US surprise was matched by an unexpected bounce in the equivalent PMI indices in China, now the world's second-biggest economy.

Five years ago the province was Afghanistan's second-biggest opium producer, after the Taliban-controlled province of Helmand.

Troubles at RWE, Germany's second-biggest electricity producer, have also played into Gazprom's hand.

It is now called Benghazi and is the second biggest city in Libya.

Such is Triumph's bravado, it even boasts of plans to be the second-biggest seller of cruisers within 10 years.

Romania, with some 22m people, is the second-biggest eastern European country after Poland. Bulgaria is just over a third as big.

Another seven years at these rates and China could overtake Japan as the world's second biggest economy.

The second biggest island in the British Isles is Ireland.

The agency said Canada, with the world's second-biggest proven oil reserves after Saudi Arabia, has been worst hit by falling investment.

Now the second-biggest worry is the labour market. Top of the list, however, is infrastructure.

Diabetes is the top cause of hospital admission after childbirth, and the second-biggest cause of death.

As the world's second-biggest economy, China sees the need to extend its power and defend its expanded economic interests.

The Netherlands has been China's second biggest trading partner in the European Union for eight consecutive years.

Lukoil, Russia's second biggest oil producer, said it was seeking between $2bn and $5bn for investment projects.

Japan's second-biggest auto maker by sales after Toyota, also cut forecasts for the second time in two months.

Black carbon has newly emerged as the second biggest contributor to climate change.

Take Tencent, China's second-biggest internet firm by market capitalisation.

The two firms are America's second-biggest and biggest pharmacy-benefit managers.

China is the world's second-biggest shipbuilder after Korea and Cosco is a force in both dry bulk and container shipping.

India, the world's second-biggest producer of rice and wheat, has banned shipments of the food grains.

Intesa Sanpaolo, the country's second-biggest bank, was formed through a 2006 merger.

Barclays, Britain's second-biggest bank, will gain much-needed capital from the cash-and-stock deal.

It is also known as the world's second biggest consumer of luxury goods.

The home market may be the second biggest in the world, but it is blighted with massive capacity and volatile pricing.

With an area of 1090 square kilometers, Lake Paijanne is Finland's second biggest.

The West Coast's second-biggest newspaper has seen losses mount since the dotcom bubble burst in 2000-01.

Fires are the second biggest cause of power line faults in South Africa after lightning.

The second-biggest city is Durban, a fast-growing port on the eastern coast, and the supply route for most goods to the interior.

'Japan is second-biggest buyer of iron ore in the world, ' said Charles Bradford, an analyst with Bradford Research.

The US opened the second biggest number of investigations in the second quarter.

Trade data for China is always closely watched because it is the world's biggest exporter and second-biggest economy.

Mianyang, the second biggest city in Sichuan province, is abundant and unique in Taoist culture re- sources.

The company raised HK$6. 8bn (US$883m) last week in the territory's second biggest IPO this year.

But Progress is already the second-biggest party in parliament, after the Labour Party, which Mr Stoltenberg leads.

China is widely tipped to overtake Japan as the world's second biggest economy this year.

But it is making waves because Mr Lieberman, an extreme nationalist, has the second-biggest chunk of seats in Israel's awkward coalition.

South Africa supplies 78 percent of the world's platinum and is the second-biggest producer of gold behind China.

Only four of 11 reactors serving Japan's second-biggest economic center, the Kansai region around Osaka, remain online.

Osaka, by day Japan's second-biggest city, is everything Tokyo is not.

Chinese importers yesterday agreed to a 19 per cent rise in the price of iron ore, the second biggest increase in 25 years.

In the late times of the two Hans, Chengdu became the second biggest city, and the first biggest one was Chang'an.

The Argentine second biggest cruiser was sunk by British torpedoes.

Pakistan, the world's sixth-most-populous country and second-biggest Muslim one, is violent and divided.

China will soon have the world's second-biggest economy, but its legitimate music market is tiny (see chart).

Sinovel, the world's second-biggest wind turbine manufacturer by volume, has denied all charges.

Yeah, yeah, it's the second biggest out of all the mammals.

KBC, a Belgian banking and insurance group, owns the biggest bank in the Czech Republic and the second-biggest in Hungary.

Managers may view yuan funds as the easier way to build up a track record in the world's second-biggest economy.

And Japan is the second-biggest trading partner of the two ports combined.

This makes Valentine's Day the second biggest card-sending occasion, second only to Christmas, and, that's a lot of cards.

France is the euro zone's second-biggest member and home to ten of Europe's 50 biggest companies. But it is deeply troubled.

The second-biggest maker of cola and the world's largest chain of coffee shops are both worried about how customers perceive their brands.

The World Gold Council reckons that China is the world's fastest-growing market for gold jewellery and the second-biggest after India.

It was taken in the Ruaha National Park, Tanzania, the second biggest national park in the world.

Europe is the second biggest pharmaceutical drugs market on the planet, representing 30% of global demand.

Acer of Taiwan is vying to become the world's second-biggest manufacturer of personal computers.

The shortage is particularly acute in Australia, the world's biggest source of iron ore and the world's second-biggest gold producer.

The European Union Chamber of Commerce says infringement of IPR remains the second-biggest concern of its 1, 300 member firms.

The Progress party is the second-biggest party in Norway, holding 41 out of 169 seats in parliament .

Mr Mifano jokes that the New York Stock Exchange is Brazil's second biggest market, with 32 Brazilian firms listed.

One thing seemed certain in 2010: China would overtake Japan as the world's second-biggest economy.

China's auto market is now the world's second biggest, and the motor-vehicle industry employs 1. 7 million workers.

Shanda, China's second-biggest operator of online games, started selling consoles in 2005.

Angola is China's second biggest supplier after Saudi Arabia.

Jalia thought before long China would become the second biggest economy after US.

Hainan is a beautiful Island, also known as the second biggest Island in China.

Russia will now be Pepsi's second-biggest market, after America.

The second-biggest employer is Dow Corning, a silicone-making joint venture.

India's retail sector is the second biggest employer after agriculture.

The biggest sales market for our group is Germany. The second biggest market is Turkey.

India is the second biggest producer of tobacco after China and the fourth-biggest exporter of unmanufactured tobacco.

The quake, which struck just before 3pm local time, was felt as far away as Surabaya, Indonesia's second biggest city, about 300 miles away.

Japan is the world's second biggest economy, but scores poorly on gender equality.

Britain's force is the second biggest contribution to the NATO mission.

While they are now the second biggest source of tourists by numbers, Chinese visitors are already the biggest spenders.

China is the second-biggest importer of potash, a crop nutrient, after India.

The country with the world's second-biggest economy has never invested in a big global science project before.

Cotton: Uzbekistan is the second biggest exporter of cotton on Earth.

Most notably, earlier this year it fined Newmont, the world's second-biggest goldmining firm, $4. 9m over a cyanide spill at its Ahafo mine.

China's economy is the world's second biggest, with a $5. 8 trillion gross domestic product that eclipsed Japan in 2010.

Perhaps most importantly, OSU has the second-biggest alumni network in the entire country.

Expanded EU has now become the biggest trade partner of China and China has become the second biggest trade partner of EU.

In 2006, Japan was the second biggest manufacturer in the world with a share of 13. 9 per cent.

CHINA jumped ahead of Japan in 2010 to become the world's second-biggest economy, but when will it grab the number-one slot?

Already the world's biggest exporter, China is on track to pass Japan this year as the second-biggest economy.

The second biggest component of the world's third largest economy is trade.

Japan remains the world's second-largest economy and Tokyo the second-biggest stock market.

Verizon, America's second-biggest telecoms company, announced a further 8, 000 job cuts at its landline division.

That has to be the second biggest slingshot I`ve ever seen.

Fast food restaurants overtook drug companies as the second-biggest spenders, with a 5. 1 per cent increase to $2. 2bn.

Sanya is the second biggest city of the Hainan Province. It's the southest tropics trip city of China.

Jiezi mosque is the ancestral mosque of Sala, and also the second biggest Mosque in Qinghai province.

Iran has the world's second-biggest crude reserves after Saudi Arabia and the second-largest gas reserves behind Russia.

ON JULY 1st Lufthansa finally took control of BMI, the second-biggest carrier at Heathrow airport.

FOKO is soon expanding to Madagascar's second biggest town, Tamatave.

The second biggest city, Sanya, hosted the 2003 Miss World Competition and earned the fame as "Hawaii of China" .

Bahamas becoming the second biggest trading partner and the largest export market of China in the English-speaking Caribbean region.

At Yale, Chinese has become the second biggest foreign language, after Latin.

Today it houses Yanacocha, the world's second-biggest gold mine.

The Goldman move is part of a planned Y888. 9bn ($9. 6bn) capital raising by Japan's second-biggest bank.

Rio is the world's second-biggest iron ore producer after Brazil's Vale.

Daimler AG rose 3. 6 percent as the world's second-biggest maker of luxury cars was upgraded at Morgan Stanley.

Clearly, the world's second-biggest economy is cooling.

China is the world's largest consumer of zinc, copper, aluminium and other metals and the second-biggest consumer of oil.

But in China, the world's second-biggest consumer of bullion, record nominal prices of the precious metal have raised eyebrows.

Today Isfahan is Iran's second biggest city.

South Africa, host of the 2010 World Cup, posted the second biggest rise.

The deals may lead to Russia selling more oil and gas to China - the world's second-biggest energy user.

In 2010, exports were equal to 45% of South Korea's gross domestic product, with Europe the second-biggest customer.

It is the second biggest country in the world and as you go eastward, you will see mountains, .

In 2003 it overtook Japan to become the world's second-biggest consumer of oil after America.

Europe was the second-biggest destination at 21. 7 per cent.

Melco International Development Ltd. was the second-biggest gainer, climbing 7. 4% to HK$10. 34.

It's now probably, either the biggest, or the second biggest media company in the country.

Golden Agri, the second-biggest global producer, operates about 430, 000 hectares in Indonesia.

Last night, the Dow posted its second biggest daily points rise, surging more than 10%, or 889 points, to 9065.

It is the second-biggest bird in Australia and the third-biggest bird in the world (only the ostrich and cassowary are bigger).

It is the country's second-biggest source of foreign currency after aid.

Japan is the second biggest importer.

The Chinese have become the second-biggest consumers of milk globally, after Indians.

Brazil has added some 10m hectares since 2008 and overtook Argentina as the second-biggest grower in 2010.

Oil companies in China -- the second-biggest buyer of Iranian crude after Japan -- have stepped up investment.

Mrs Clinton's second-biggest negative is that very executive ability.

St Paul Outside the Walls is the second biggest church in Rome after St Peter's.

ICICI, India's second-biggest bank, has a similar system of reaching out that is changing the economics of banking.

By 2001 Latinos, most of them Mexicans or descended from Mexicans, had become the second-biggest ethnic group in America.

The world's second-biggest economy had previous shrunk by 0. 9% in the April to June quarter.

Qingdao is the second biggest trade ports of China, with foreign throughput of 168 million in 2006.

The HPA is warning travellers to heed advice on how to avoid malaria, which is the world's second biggest killer.

According to anti-piracy organizations, it is the second-biggest source of pirated software, music and film in the world.

is the source of the second biggest fear in the world!

It buys one-tenth of the crop produced in Ghana, which is the second-biggest producer after Cô te d'Ivoire.

New Yorkis the second biggest port in the world and it has two airports.

Growth was similarly sluggish in the US, Mercedes' second biggest market, where sales grew only 1. 8 per cent in May to 18, 886 units.

But the second biggest market for us is China which is also our fastest growing market.

Noble, the world's second-biggest offshore-drilling contractor, agreed to buy FDR Holdings, valuing its smaller rival at $2. 16 billion.

CHINA has become the world's second biggest economy according to data released on Monday August 16th.

Steve Bachmann, founder of Vinfolio, realised the potential when he saw that his second biggest customer last year was Asian.

China is the world's second-biggest oil consumer after the U. S. , and last year overtook Japan as Iran's top crude-oil buyer.

China was last year the world's second-biggest country in terms of manufacturing production.

show that Rhea, the second biggest moon of the giant planet, has an atmosphere that is 70 per cent oxygen and 30 per cent carbon dioxide.

This would catapult Chinaahead of Japan and make it the world's second-biggest economy after theUnited States.

His bag is the second biggest in our class.

Daimler, the world's second-biggest maker of luxury cars, lost 6. 2 percent and Volkswagen's preferred stock fell 5. 2 percent.

It is already the world's second-biggest economy, and in time is likely to overtake America.

Seafood was the country's second biggest foreign exchange earner last year, accounting for 7 per cent of its $71. 6bn of exports.

China became the world's second biggest gold buyer, last year, overtaking the United States.