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French Workers Protest Government Ban On Sunday Trading
Employees and management staff at 14 home improvement stores in France could face fines of up to 120,000 euros per shop, after they defied a long-standing government law prohibiting...
Spain May Switch Time Zone To Boost Productivity
The Spanish government is reportedly considering moving its clocks back by an hour in order to improve workers’ eating and sleeping habits, according to a BBC report on Friday,...
China To Launch Space Station Within A Decade
China intends to launch its very own orbiting space station by 2023, announced officials at the 64th International Astronautical Congress in Beijing on Thursday, with an initial mission to...
Japanese Auto-Parts Makers Found Guilty For Price-Fixing
Nine Japanese automotive suppliers, including Hitachi Automotive Systems and Mitsubishi Electric, will pay nearly $740 million in fines for conspiring to fix the prices of more than 30 different...
Shell May Not Drill For Arctic Oil In 2014: Report
After cancelling its Arctic oil expeditions for this year, Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s largest oil company, has yet to apply to U.S. authorities to drill in the Arctic...
Brazil May Turn $280 Million World Cup Stadium Into Prisoner Centre
A $280 million football stadium built for the World Cup in Brazil next year could eventually be converted into a processing centre for prisoners, reported AFP on Thursday, after...
Russia Ponders Higher ‘Divorce Tax’ To Discourage Ill-Planned Marriages
Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has proposed raising the state duty on divorce by nearly 7500 percent, in order to discourage couples from jumping into marriage before careful consideration,...
Spain Exits Recession, But Not Yet Out Of Crisis: PM
Spain will see economic growth of between 0.1-0.2 percent during the third quarter of 2013, said Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday, though he warned that a great deal...
China Bans Potentially Weapons-Related Exports To North Korea
China’s Commerce Ministry on Tuesday issued a 236-page list of goods banned for exports to North Korea, fearing that the items could be used as components to make weapons...
Swiss Village To Donate Glencore Xstrata Tax Receipts To Countries Exploited By Company
Residents from the Swiss village of Hedingen, near Zurich, have decided to donate some 110,000 Swiss francs ($121,000) in taxes paid by Glencore Xstrata’s billionaire chief executive Ivan Glasenberg...


