The head of U.N. disaster relief visited the heart of the Philippine disaster zone on Tuesday and stressed the need for long-term planning as well as emergency relief to ensure farmers and fishermen can resume their livelihoods.
Valerie Amos toured...
World shares edged back from near six-year highs on Tuesday amid investor concerns that the latest rally may have been overdone, while optimistic comments about the U.S. economy helped limit the dollar's losses.
Caution swept the equity markets after U.S....
China's officials indicated on Tuesday how they plan to steer reforms on interest rates, the currency and stock markets, following a top-level party meeting that promised sweeping changes over the next decade.
Following up on that, central bank chief Zhou...
JPMorgan Chase & Co has withdrawn from a syndicate of banks working on a $2 billion Hong Kong listing by China Everbright Bank Co, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
JPMorgan's exit comes as it faces a number...
Bombardier (BBDb.TO) has signed a letter of intent to sell five CSeries jetliners to Iraqi Airways, the Canadian plane and train maker said on Tuesday.
Iraq's national carrier will acquire five of the CS300 jets with options for 11 more...
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 19, (THEWILL) - The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, has described an editorial titled, “Jonathan, Okonjo-Iweala and Waivers” published on Monday, November 18 by The Punch Newspaper...
France's President Francois Hollande (2ndL) and Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) General Secretary Angel Gurria (L)
Slowing emerging markets are dragging on the world's economic recovery and advanced countries are struggling to pick up the slack after years of debt...
''Do people shape society or does society shape people?'' This is the question of the century and my answer is as follows. The sheer power of vision, creativity and strength that the human mind harbours and is capable of...
Out of curiosity, I embarked on a random search last week to find out who the most researched person globally is as at the time of my study. Honestly when the result turned up to be the current revolutionary...
There is no question that troubles the human soul than the cold, stubborn, obtrusive, universal fact of death. Hardly a day passes which does not remind us of death. In these days of evil, death is continually intruding into...
