Author : EW News Desk Team

Presidential elections have never cheap but the cost of running a campaign has been increasing steadily. With budgets bordering a mega-corporation’s, it is no surprise that presidential campaigns spend...

China has hit back at critics and Western media outlets that exaggerate and “distort” the reality of copyright piracy in the Mainland. Speaking at the sidelines of the Communist...

Denmark has repealed the world’s first “fat tax”, a tax on foods which are high in saturated fat, after Copenhagen found that it had inflated food prices and put...

Eurogroup finance ministers are expected to review the so-called troika report on Greece and come up with a bailout extension decision this week. Unless another bailout agreement and extension...

European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday said that the bank has exhausted all legal means when it comes to helping Greece and added that the onus of helping...

America’s budget watchdog, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, has said in a new report that letting the Bush-era upper-income tax cuts expire automatically would barely affect the economy. Studying...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised the Chinese government to increase its present taxes on tobacco, reported the China Daily on Friday, with nearly 1.2 million Chinese dying...

The Iranian government on Thursday announced a temporary ban on all foreign imports of 75 so-called “luxury goods”, including high-end cars, coffee and even toilet paper, reported the Associated...

China’s ruling party has restated its commitment to economic reforms and development with outgoing President Hu Jintao promising continuity as a new generation of anointed successors prepare for a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged the UK not to turn its back on the European Union and insisted that she wanted to see a strong Britain remain part...