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Beijing’s Divorce Rate Soar By 41% As Couples Exploit Tax Loophole
Nearly 40,000 Chinese couples living in Bejing have filed for during the first nine months of this year, according to the China Daily on Tuesday, a year-on-year increase of...
Japan To Investigate Nation’s Largest Banks For Yakuza Links
Japan's financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), is set to investigate the nation’s three largest banks for transactions with the Yakuza, according to Reuters on Tuesday. The probe...
Singapore Ranked As World’s Best Place To Run A Business For 8th Straight Year
Singapore has once again come out top as the world’s best place to run a business, according to the World Bank’s annual competiveness survey, with the Ukraine showing the...
Brazil To Produce Low-Cost Measles & Rubella Vaccine For Poor Countries
Brazil’s top biomedical research centre, the government-funded Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, has announced plans to begin producing an affordable measles and rubella vaccine for developing countries, becoming only the second...
Swiss Bankers Too Scared To Travel Amid US Tax Probe: Business Head
Fearing arrest by U.S. tax authorities, many Swiss bankers are now refusing to travel out of the country, be it for work or holiday, according to one business leader...
Germany May Set Up Its Own Internet After NSA Spying Scandal
Germany is reportedly considering creating its own Internet network service in order to “shield local internet traffic from foreign intelligence services” like the NSA, reported Reuters last week. Germany...
Majority Of Global Donor Organisations Fare Poorly In Aid Transparency Index
Over 40 major donor organisations, including government and private agencies, received “Poor” or “Very Poor” scores in the latest Aid Transparency Index (ATI), bringing into question how and where...
Africa Losing $1 Billion A Week From Illicit Financial Flows: Report
Sub-Saharan Africa has lost $1 billion a week for the past 30 years due to illicit financial flows related to their natural resources, according to international relief and development...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Tops US Highest Paid CEO List
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was the highest paid CEO in the United States last year, according to an annual poll by corporate governance research group GMI Ratings released this...
Spain Exits 2-Year Recession, But Job Creation Remains Low
The Spanish economy grew by 0.1 percent between July and September this year on the back of stronger exports, according to estimates from Spain’s central bank on Wednesday, though...


