The most successful entrepreneurs and executives I have seen are savvy business people first, and experts in their field second. This may seem counter-intuitive to technologists, especially in an era when technology seems to be driving the world. Yet the sad truth is that a technology not focused on a […]
This editorial is part of our GREAT DEBATE feature ‘Why Aren’t There More Women In Positions Of Power?‘ Recently, while in car with my husband and me, my six-year old saw a road sign for “Manchester,” and commented that she would not want to live there because men would […]
Filipino nurses have stayed put in Fukushima, Japan, site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, to help their elderly patients. In a speech marking the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Toshinao Urabe on Sunday gave thanks to the Philippines […]
Source: Scientific American Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put out a new video to address false claims about the “Mayan apocalypse,” a non-event that some people believe will bring the world to an end on Dec. 21. In the video, which was posted online Wednesday (Mar. 7), Don […]
Source: Weyburn Review – A group of Islamic students traveling across Canada to ” dispel myths” about their religion will be stopping in Weyburn to hold an open house. The students are the members of Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of Canada, which group earlier sent volunteers who went door to […]
BEIRUT: Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai’s recent remarks on the ongoing developments in Syria and the challenges facing Christians in the region is drawing another round of criticism from March 14 […]
Indonesia must be “free” of liberal values, including liberal interpretations of Islam. That’s the message of thousands of Muslims who demonstrated against the Ahmadiyya minority faith and “liberalism” on Friday. […]
With moments of silence and prayers, Japan has begun marking one year since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the nation, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century. At dawn in the devastated northeastern coastal town of Rikuzentakata, dozens of people from across […]
Saturna Sdn. Bhd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Saturna Capital Corporation, has entered into an agreement with Crescent Wealth, Australia’s first Islamic wealth manager, to act as the portfolio manager of the Crescent International Equity Fund scheduled for launch later this year. “Saturna’s agreement with the Australian wealth management firm […]
The measures used to overcome the Asian financial crisis should not be overlooked by Europe. by Stephen S. Roach, who is Non Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and author of The Next Asia. (AlJazeera) New Haven, CT – The austerity debate was the topic du jour at this year’s […]
By ANDREW DULLOCK, ARABNEWS Moving away from your comfort zone can be an easy task for some people, but for some, moving to a new culture and environment drastically different from your own can be quite overwhelming. There are many instances where you will feel very anxious about your new […]
by Musa Keilani | Mar 10,2012 | 22:43 JORDAN TIMES Is there a new civil war in the making in Libya? It does appear so, with local leaders announcing that they plan to make Benghazi and the surrounding areas a “semi-autonomous region” and the new regime in Tripoli pledging to […]
AFP | Mar 10,2012 | 22:39 JORDAN TIMES TUNIS — Hundreds of Muslim women gathered near Tunis Saturday to call for the return of the caliphate, the defunct Islamic system of governance which they said was the only means of guaranteeing their rights. The members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir Party […]