• Ghana

    SIC comfirms Ashidan as substantive MD

    The Board of Directors of SIC Insurance Company Limited has confirmed the appointment of Kwei Mensah Ashidam as the substantive Managing Director of Ghana’s largest general Insurance Company. He has been the Acting Managing Director from February, 2015, following the exit of Mrs Doris Awo Nkani. Mr Ashidam brings on ...

  • Giappone

    Cabinet Office view of 2014 contraction differs from BOJ take of economy ¥29.5 trillion to the good

    The official view in Japan for more than a year has been that the economy contracted in 2014 after a sales-tax hike stunted consumer spending. A new analysis from economists at the central bank paints a very different picture, suggesting that gross domestic product actually grew 2.4 percent. The contradictory ...

  • Giappone Indonesia

    Mitsubishi Motors reveals XM Concept crossover SUV in Indonesia

    Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Thursday revealed its new XM Concept crossover at the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show. The XM Concept denotes X for crossover and M for multipurpose vehicle. Mitsubishi considers the vehicle a combination of the power, design and utility of a sport-utility vehicle with the spaciousness and ...

  • Cina Giappone Hong Kong

    Japan urges Hong Kong to lift ban on food from areas near Fukushima plant

    JAgricultural minister Yuji Yamamoto said in Hong Kong on Thursday that he has requested the territory to lift a food ban that restricts imports from five Japanese prefectures most affected by a radiation-leak scare following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Imports of Japanese food, including milk, vegetables and ...

  • Giappone

    Twitter denies #SaveTwitter rumors that it’s tweeting its last in 2017

    Twitter Inc. denied on Thursday rumors that the social media messaging service will be shutting down in 2017, denouncing the claim as groundless. “There is absolutely no truth to the claims whatsoever,” a spokesman for Twitter said in an emailed response to a Reuters request for comment. Social media started ...

  • Ghana

    Ghana: Government Approves U.S.$230 Million Renewable Energy Investment Plan

    [Ghana Star] The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has announced the approval of a $230 million scaling-up Renewable Energy Investment Plan (SREP-IP) by the Climate Investment Fund.

  • Nigeria

    NHRC wrong to include my name, says Uduaghan

    Former Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday accused the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of not thoroughly studying the circumstances surrounding the nullification of his 2007 electoral  victory before including his name in the list of poll offenders.  He said, he was wrongly removed by the Appeal Court, adding that ...

  • Paesi Bassi

    Nothing to see here

    OTHERWISE law-abiding citizens confiscating drivers’ keys, kettles that reek of crabmeat, and twenty-somethings unable to afford apartments; these phenomena seem unconnected. Yet locals see a common culprit: tourists. Troublesome tourists are nothing new. “Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice, there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors,” quipped ...

  • USA

    Don’t Buff it up

    WARREN BUFFETT has long dabbled in politics. In the mid-1970s he developed a taste for exclusive Washington dinner parties. In the 1980s he spent a weekend being Ronald Reagan’s golf partner. He helped Arnold Schwarzenegger become the governor of California in 2003 and in 2008 John McCain and Barack Obama ...

  • Brasile

    Petrobras tem lucro líquido de R$ 370 milhões no segundo trimestre de 2016

    A Petrobras teve um lucro líquido de R$ 370 milhões no segundo trimestre deste ano. O número é positivo em relação aos três primeiros meses de 2016, quando registrou prejuízo de R$ 1,2 bilhão. Segundo a empresa, vários fatores contribuíram para o resultado: a redução de 30% nas despesas financeiras ...