Global credit rating agency Fitch Ratings yesterday affirmed Qatar’s long-term foreign and local currency IDRs at ‘AA’, with a Stable outlook.
Emerging market equities edged higher yesterday but stayed on track to end the week in the red as investors positioned for US jobs data and political tensions hit South Africa’s rand and bonds.
CK Hutchison Holdings and VimpelCom won European Union approval for a merger creating Italy’s largest wireless provider after they agreed to help a smaller rival, Iliad, become the country’s fourth mobile carrier.
Hurricane Hermine tore a path of destruction across Florida on Friday, leaving more than 253,000 homes and businesses without power, flooding low-lying areas and raising concerns about the spread of the Zika virus due to the massive pools of standing water left behind.
The death toll from a devastating typhoon in northern Japan rose to 14, officials said on Friday, as another powerful storm approached the country's south.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina smelt a conspiracy behind Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia’s sudden open stance against the proposed coal-fired power plant at Rampal, 14kms off the world’s biggest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
Singapore’s private banks are coming under scrutiny for earning bonuses by selling risky debt, as the city sees an unprecedented wave of defaults.
Eleven militants were killed yesterday in a gun battle with government troops in the southern Philippines, a regional military spokesman said.
‘I cannot give any prognosis how it will be decided. I will accept the verdict. I do hope it will be positive for me, but we are footballers. We learn to win but also we learn to lose’
The Animal Wealth Department of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) has conducted a second training course for the livestock farm owners and workers at the farm complex in the Kheraib area.
Australian farmers are set to churn out record harvests of pulses such as chickpeas and lentils after they rushed to take advantage of surging prices due to shortages in world No 1 producer and consumer India.
Hammered on the field, pilloried by fans and local media off it, the woefully out-of-form Wallabies have even been called delusional by one of their former players this week.
