• Thailandia

    SET falls 2.01 to 1,567.01 at opening

    Thai stocks opened down 0.13% at the start of trade this morning.

  • USA

    BY ZAKA KHALIQ With the Risk Based Supervision(RBS) set to commence in the insurance industry before year end and subsequently lead the sector to another round of recapitalisation, 10 years after the previous one, the aim of this exercise is to see stronger insurance firms emerged thereafter. ZAKA KHALIQ writes. ...

  • Nigeria

    FG Should Fix Energy Sector To Stimulate SMEs Operations – Kibazo

    BY CHIKA IZUORA The importance of energy to the growth of businesses cannot be over-emphasised. The Managing Director, FTI Consulting, Mr Joel Kibazo, in this interview with CHIKA IZUORA, says small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will help stabilise Nigeria’s economy What does this publication ‘Companies to Inspire Africa,’ mean for ...

  • Giappone

    Trump choosy about which unions he welcomes at White House

    President Donald Trump says labor unions have an open door to his White House, but so far, he’s holding the door a little more ajar for some organizations than others. Trump has put out the welcome mat for the nation’s construction trades, with whom he’s had relationships during decades of ...

  • Giappone

    Researchers seek better ways to farm popular Pacific black cod as seafood demand surges

    The dark gray fish prized for its buttery flavor live deep in the ocean, so researchers keep their lab cold and dark to simulate ideal conditions for sablefish larvae. A biologist shines his dim red headlamp and uses an ultrasound to scan the belly of an anesthetized sablefish about the ...

  • Cina Giappone

    Kushner’s sister woos China ‘golden visa’ investors in public event off-limits to press

    The sister of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been in China courting individual investors with a much-criticized federal visa program that provides a path toward obtaining U.S. green cards. Kushner’s sister, Nicole Meyer, promoted One Journal Square, a Kushner Companies’ development in Jersey City, at an event Sunday ...

  • Francia

    Macron to take time reforming economy in a divided France

    After a decade of slow growth, rising unemployment and dwindling competitiveness, France elected a president today who says he has a plan to pull the country out of its economic malaise. Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker who quit the government of Francois Hollande twice out of frustration with the slow ...

  • USA Francia

    Watch: Macron wins French presidency by a landslide

    Updated 9.15pm - Added video Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France today with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed. The centrist's emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream ...

  • USA

    Unmanned US space plane lands after secret, two-year mission

    The US military's experimental X-37B space plane landed today at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years, the Air Force said. The unmanned X-37B, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, touched down at 7.47am EDT (1147 GMT) on a runway formerly used for ...

  • Turchia Giappone Azerbaigian Georgia (Country)

    ADB agrees to lend $500 million to Azeri gas project

    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide a $500 million loan to Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz 2 project, the Azeri finance ministry said today. The ADB said earlier this year it was considering lending money to Azerbaijan to help fund the second stage of development of the Shah Deniz natural ...