Who will support aging Japan? Japan Times | Under the leadership of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore more than a decade ago adopted the growth strategy of making the medical industry the core of the nation's industrial development. | Lee, the eldest son of the city state's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, known for his "developmental ...
The NATO Afghan summit: Reality and illusion Al Jazeera | Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of negotiation, US President Barack Obama made a triumphal appearance at the Afghan Presidential Palace, on the first anniversary of the US military's brilliantly successful raid against Osama bin Laden, to mee...
Who will support aging Japan? Japan Times | Under the leadership of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore more than a decade ago adopted the growth strategy of making the medical industry the core of the nation's industrial development. | Lee, the eldest son of the city state's founding ...
Trade win with Malaysia spurs regional talks The Australian | LABOR hopes a breakthrough free trade agreement to be signed with Malaysia tomorrow - giving Australian companies unprecedented access to Asia's eighth-biggest economy - will provide momentum to negotiations on other bilateral deals across the Paci...
NATO summit opens with Afghanistan focus Al Jazeera | Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have gathered in Chicago for a summit that will be dominated by the withdrawal of forces in Afghanistan. | US President Barack Obama opened the summit in his home town, Chicago, on Sunday,...
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North Korea 'resuming work' on nuclear reactor The Daily Telegraph Satellite imagery has revealed that North Korea has resumed work on a light water reactor that analysts believe indicates Pyongyang's intention to push ahead with efforts to enrich...
SAA needs state cash to renew its fleet — Gigaba Business Day | South African Airways (SAA) needed to be recapitalised by the state to allow it to renew its fleet of aircraft and roll out its African aviation strategy, Public Enterprises Mini...
Gold hits 4-1/2 month low on Greek turmoil The Times Of India Tweet | SINGAPORE: Gold extended losses on Wednesday and slipped to its weakest since December after Greece's failure to form a government prompted investors to cut their exposure ...
Bunye: The Importance of Good Credit (Last of two parts) Sun Star | THE recent commemoration of Credit Consciousness Week (April 24 to 30, 2012) was a special opportunity to learn about the importance of good credit. | Last week, we discussed how important credit score is in personal finance. It can affect our appl...
8 diesel-feed power plants to rise in Misamis Oriental Sun Star | EIGHT diesel-feed power plants are expected to rise in Misamis Oriental, officials of the Misamis Oriental Rural Electric Service Cooperative (Moresco-1) in Laguindingan town said Friday. | Edelesio Arcol, Moresco-1’s president of the board of di...
Far East buyers beware in London property rush Reuters | LONDON (Reuters) - When Hong Kong businessman Mr. He paid a 35,000 pound ($56,000) deposit on a four-bedroom apartment in Britain, he believed it was a 40-minute walk from central London, his lawyer says. In fact it was a 40-minute journey by high-...
Europen banks warned against raising Greek risk exposure The Times Of India Tweet BERLIN: Central banks in Europe should not increase their exposure to Greece due to the high level of political uncertainty there, Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. | "Indeed, I would not consider it to be right for the euro system to further increase its level of risk for Greece," Weidmann ...
Europe's banks on the brink Reuters | LONDON, May 17 (IFR) - The euro zone crisis was in full swing when Jean-Claude Trichet took the podium in Berlin last October 6 for his final press conference as president of the European Central Bank. Having helped create one of the longest periods of price stability in the history of central banking, Trichet was closing out his eight-year reign...
