ITTA BENA, Miss (Reuters) – Here’s what has happened in Leflore County, Mississippi, since the end of the U.S. recession in 2009. The number of jobs fell 4 percent and nearly 8 percent of the businesses disappeared. Average annual pay at private firms stalled. The median age spiked a full three years as working age […]
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – It’s been the better part of a year since United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stood face to face for the first time at their unprecedented summit in Singapore. As the two leaders prepare to meet in Vietnam for a second summit, there is a growing […]
HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong’s port, which once vied with rival Singapore for global dominance, has slipped out of the world’s top five busiest shipping container terminals for the first time, new data has revealed. The bustling southern Chinese financial hub owes its very existence to its ideal location as a port, a cornerstone […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Renault SA Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard is set to meet with Nissan Motor’s CEO Hiroto Saikawa after he arrives in Japan on Thursday, seeking to reaffirm an alliance rocked by the arrest and ouster of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn. His visit will be the first by Renault’s top brass since Ghosn was arrested […]
Voters in Taiwan have rejected legalising same-sex marriages in a series of referendums on Saturday. They backed the definition of marriage as the union of a man and woman. Last year a high court had ruled in favour of same-sex unions, ordering legislation. The government has said it will still press on with new laws […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has cancelled plans to visit India this week for a business forum due to “inclement weather” and other logistical issues, a spokesman for the agency said in a statement on Wednesday (Feb 13). Ross was due to co-chair the US-India CEO Forum set to begin on […]
Questions of identity and citizenship have long vexed a vast number of people living in Assam, one of India’s most multi-ethnic states. Among the residents are Bengali- and Assamese-speaking Hindus, and a medley of tribespeople. A third of its 32 million residents are Muslims, the second-highest number after Indian-administered Kashmir. Many of them are descendants […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Assets in U.S. money market funds rose to the highest level in nearly nine years as investors poured more cash into low-risk investments amid uncertainties about global trade and economic growth, private data released on Wednesday showed. Money market funds recorded $21.38 billion in inflows to $3.040 trillion in the week […]
SRINAGAR, INDIA (DPA) – Seventeen students were injured in a blast at a school in India-administered Kashmir on Wednesday (Feb 13), police said. “The cause of the blast is unclear and investigations are going on,” a senior police official said of the incident in Pulwama district. The students aged 15 and 16 belonged to the […]
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian home prices fell in January for the fourth consecutive month led by weakness in major Western Canadian cities, data showed on Wednesday. The Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index, which measures changes for repeat sales of single-family homes, showed prices fell 0.1 percent last month from December 2018. Prices fell in […]