Muhammad Yunus: ‘How We Can Bring About Change?’
Source: Huff Post. By Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate in Economics The current financial crisis makes it very clear that our current financial system is not sustainable. This is the opportune time […]
The Permanent Militarization of America
NY Times: Aaron B. OConnell: IN 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower left officewarning of the growing power of the military-industrial complex in American life. Most people know the term the president popularized, but […]
Will the Saud’s destroy the Graves of the Holy Prophet and the two Caliphs?
Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam’s history The Independent: Authorities are building a mosque so big it will hold 1.6m people – but are demolishing irreplaceable monuments to do […]
Fears of a witch hunt as BBC sex abuse scandal spreads
Global Post: LONDON, UK — It started as a simple scandal involving a few sordid claims about a dead television presenter. Now revelations about Jimmy Savile have become a “tsunami […]
Amazon reports loss led by its stake in LivingSocial
Source: BBC Online retailer Amazon has reported a bigger than expected quarterly loss, led by its investment in struggling online deals service LivingSocial. Amazon made a loss of $274m (£170m) for the July to September period, compared with a profit of $63m a year earlier. The overall loss is equivalent to […]
America’s middle class: An endangered species?
BOSTON — Meet Mr. and Ms. Median America. Or perhaps you already know them. His name is likely to be Michael. Hers, Jennifer. They’re 37 years old, and live in […]
Pakistan outranks India in World Bank Doing Business Index, again
Express Tribune: Pakistan dropped 3 places to rank at 107 in the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ index for 2013, according to data released on Tuesday. In the South Asian region, however, Pakistan ranked third, below Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and left Bangladesh and India trailing behind at […]
Could the gas price determine the new US president, take a look!
Gas prices: There’s not much that presidents can do about them GOP nominee Mitt Romney makes sure he gets to make his point even as debate moderator tries to move on. By John W. Schoen, NBC News When you pull up to that gas pump and nearly faint […]
Muslim MasterCard: Compass pointing to Mecca embedded in new bank card
A compass pointing the way to Mecca is embedded in a new MasterCard aimed at Muslims. Gulf state-owned bank Al Hillal in the United Arab Emirates has rolled out the […]
Europe and Britain sinking under weight of welfare costs
Daily Telegraph: So how did Mr Nasty – aka George Osborne – do? I give the Chancellor a qualified thumbs-up for his party conference speech, even if the word “growth” was […]
Why You should Outsource to Indonesia
Whether you like it or not, we are now doing business in a boundless world; the Internet has made geographical location irrelevant when it comes to get things done. You […]
Good News on Sale: ‘Bahrain buys favorable CNN content’
Russian TV: Amid a violent crackdown on a popular uprising, Bahrain paid CNN to get favorable coverage, says a former reporter who believes her documentary on the protests there was […]
INDIAN TRAVELERS SPEND $12 M A YEAR FOR FIJI TRAVELS
$12m spending money Credit: Fiji Times by Maciu Malo Saturday, September 29, 2012 + Enlarge this image A group of travel agents from India during the India Fiji Tourism trade show at Shangri-La’s Fijian Resort in Sigatoka. Picture: JAI PRASAD INDIAN travellers spend around $12 million per year in Fiji, […]
Companies target European poor with Third World marketing
Global Post: BERLIN, Germany — Three years into the global financial crisis, multinational companies that had made huge profits during the consumer boom that preceded it faced a major dilemma: people were no longer buying the expensive premium products that once sold well in Europe. That was the complaint from […]
Income Inequality Is Worse Now Than It Was During Slavery
Businessinsider.com: Here’s a finding that would have made for great occupy sign last year: American income inequality may be more severe today than it was way back in 1774 — even if you factor in slavery. That stat’s not actually as crazy (or demoralizing) as it sounds, but it might […]
FIJI NEWS – (China Daily) Wu’s Fiji Visit Important
Fiji highlights importance of Wu’s upcoming visit SUVA – The Fijian government Sunday stressed the importance of the upcoming visit by China’s top legislator Wu Bangguo, saying Wu’s visit symbolizes the growing relations betweenFiji and China since diplomatic relations were forged in 1975. Relations between the two countries have significantly […]
AUSSIE $ RISES AGAINST US-WSJ REPORTS
South Pacific dollars continue raising against greenback – A World Street Journal Report Sep 14, 2012 03:11 PM Friday saw the monetary unit of Australia push to its highest value in four weeks against the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency reeled in the aftermath of Fed chief Ben Bernanke announcing […]
Energy woes: over 40 percent of textile industry has shifted to Bangladesh?
Source: Business Recorder. By ABDUL RASHEED AZAD More than 40 percent of the Pakistani textile industry and around 0.2 million power looms have shifted to Bangladesh in the last five years due to energy crisis in Pakistan and better incentives in Bangladesh, which has created serious employment related problems in the […]
FIJI’S ECONOMY BACK ON TRACK – RBF
THE Reserve Bank of Fiji believes the economy is on track to grow 2.7 per cent this year because of the economic performance in the first six months. While releasing its economic review for the month of August, the central bank said that despite the heightened risks in the global […]
FIJI NEWS – A paradise in the Pacific
WORLD Cast away… in paradise BY:BY ROSE SADLEIR From:escape September 09, 2012 12:00A Wish you were here? A Castaway Island sunset. Picture: Cathy Finch Source: National Features Castaway Island, Fiji, as it normally looks when there aren’t disastrous floods. Picture: Cathy Finch Source: National Features THERE is nothing quite as alluring as the thought of […]