• Cina USA

    Rebirth of a sales firm

    “I AMWAY you this song!” So declared Tan Weiwei, a Chinese pop artist, during a performance in Shanghai on August 14th. Hers was the closing act in a gala celebration thrown by America’s Amway, the world’s largest direct-sales company, for its top sales representatives in China. When she used that ...

  • Cina Regno Unito

    Winging it

    The Chinese are on side WILL the Reds go red? Everbright, a Chinese state-backed financial conglomerate, is reportedly keen to buy Liverpool Football Club, one of the sport’s most celebrated names. If it were to happen, it would be the biggest in a series of recent investments made by mainland firms ...

  • USA Italia

    Mafia management

    AN EASY way to revive a flagging dinner party is to ask people to name their choice of the greatest crime show. Is it “The Wire”, with its intricate portrait of Baltimore’s underworld? Or “The Sopranos”? Or perhaps “Breaking Bad”? Now there is a new contender for the prize—“Gomorrah”, a ...

  • USA

    Cloud chronicles

    AS BOSSES go, Linus Torvalds and Andy Jassy couldn’t be more different. Mr Torvalds works, often in his bathrobe, out of his home in Portland, Oregon. He leads an army of volunteer developers whose software can be had for nothing. The office of Mr Jassy, who usually sports business casual, ...

  • Nigeria

    YAM initiative to create 20, 000 jobs for youths

    Youth Agric Mandate, YAM, has assured of creating 20,000 job opportunities both skilled and unskilled through agriculture business and enterpreneurship for the teeming youths across the country before 2020. Speaking at the group’s launch and press conference in Ibadan on Thursday, the Group Head of YAM, Mr. Akinolu Olubayo, said ...

  • USA Nigeria

    FG to extend RUFIN scheme for farmers

    The Federal Government has declared to continue the Rural Finance Institution Building Programme, RUFIN, to empower more local farmers in all the 12 participating states across the country. This was made known by the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, during a two-day media tour to beneficiaries of the programme ...

  • Nigeria

    How To Make Ondo’s Economy Self-Sustaining

    Four decades after the great state of Ondo became a sovereign state she is still breathlessly dependent on Abuja money. This cannot be said to be normal. It’s strange even. The grinding poverty and grim livelihood that is consequent to this heavy dependence on federal allocation attests to this unacceptable ...

  • Giappone Kenya

    Messahel at International Tokyo Conference on African Development Summit

    ALGIERS- Minister of Maghreb Affairs, African Union and the Arab League Abdelkader Messahel will represent the president of the Republic, Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the 6th International Tokyo Conference on African Development Summit (TICAD VI) scheduled on 27 and 28 August, in Nairobi (Kenya) said Wednesday, the ministry of Foreign Affairs…

  • Israele Etiopia

    Business in brief: In blow to Teva, U.S. invalidates two Copaxone patents

    Amid win against Teva, Mylan caves in to pressure and offers EpiPen discount | Ethiopia says Israel Chemicals owes $55 million in taxes on potash project | Pharma woes weigh on Tel Aviv shares

  • USA Yemen

    UN human rights chief urges accountability for violations in Yemen

    Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Country: YemenThe UN Human Rights Office has laid out a number of serious allegations of violations and abuses committed by all sides to the conflict in Yemen, highlighting in particular their impact on civilian lives, health and infrastructure. Arabic  GENEVA (25 August 2016) ...