If an owner builder understands the differences between his construction loan and other, simpler types of mortgage financing, then he will be much better prepared when starting his planning and financing. Owner builder construction loans are a more complicated process than a standard mortgage to purchase or refinance a home. Therefore, they will require a [...]
BANGKOK — Thailand’s Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, met on Sunday with leaders of the anti-government protest movement, the first significant effort to defuse two weeks of street protests. The meeting, an unscripted and unusual face-off between hardened political rivals that was broadcast live on Thailand’s main television channels, failed to make progress on the main [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Like almost anyone from Hispaniola, the island uncomfortably shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Paloma Rivera is acutely aware that the two nations distrust each other, complain about each other and cite grievances about each other going back well over a century. Yet here she was, a Dominican, clearing garbage and [...]
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | NEW DELHI (AP) — The would like to help and focus less on each other and more on the terrorism threat, but the two countries prefer to settle their differences themselves, Defense Secretary said Tuesday. “We’re always interested in that,” Gates said as he flew to New Delhi for [...]