Linda Young – Fourth Estate Cooperative Writer
Brussels, Belgium (4E) – The European Commission predicts the eurozone economy will shrink this year as the region’s debt crisis continues to take its toll. In its spring forecasts, EC officials said [...] Continue Reading…
Dili, Timor-Leste (IRIN) – Support services for women and children trafficked to Timor-Leste have been forced to close or will soon run out of funding, and NGOs worry that the government will not have the resources to fill the [...] Continue Reading…
Linda Young – AHN News Writer
Beijing, China (AHN) – News that economic growth in China fell to 8.1 percent during the first three months of the year caused oil prices to fall on world markets, along with stocks on [...] Continue Reading…
The Media Line Staff
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (The Media Line) – When Reem Muhammad sought a personal loan to pay off some lingering debts, a Saudi bank offered 100,000 riyals ($26,667). The price tag? Repayment of the loan, plus 33,000 [...] Continue Reading…
The Media Line Staff
Tel Aviv, Israel David Rosenberg / The Med – In Israel’s high tech economy, the local operations of Intel Corp. stand out as a kind of high tech economy all of its own. The world’s [...] Continue Reading…
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter
Dallas, TX, United States (AHN) – There is no such thing as a free lunch on short airline flights anymore, and there is no such thing a free leg room, either. On Thursday, [...] Continue Reading…
The Media Line Staff
Jerusalem, Israel (The Media Line) – A score or more of people are hard at work on a balmy winter afternoon at TechLoft’s big open-area office in the center of Tel Aviv. Most of them are [...] Continue Reading…
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter
New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Stocks opened sharply higher Friday after the Labor Department reported the U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months. Shortly after the opening [...] Continue Reading…
The Media Line Staff
United Arab Emirates David Rosenberg (The Medi – Calling the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the world’s “least friendly” place for expatriates-well, those are fighting words. Certainly, they are in a place where non-citizens make up close [...] Continue Reading…
The Media Line Staff
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Rob L. Wagner (The Media – Not content with oil, the kingdom wants to make cars as well; skeptics abound. Two years ago, the Saudi Arabian government announced with great fanfare – [...] Continue Reading…
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