Author : EW News Desk Team

Chinese president Hu Jintao has pledged to bolster ties with North Korea, after a meeting with the hermit state’s top envoy. The reaffirmation of friendship comes amid a huge...

A senior United Nations official has said that criminality is one of the biggest economies in the world. According to estimations, the crime industry generates 3.6 percent of world...

Royal Dutch Shell plc may be liable for more than $150 million in compensation to victims of a 2008 Nigerian oil spill, said a report by The Guardian on...

Private businesses and tax revenues will soon make up nearly 50 percent of Cuba’s economic activity, said a senior Communist party official over the weekend, as the government attempts...

A quick preview of the key economic events for the upcoming week: A busy week of meetings and announcements, the United States’ Federal Open Market Commission meeting on Wednesday...

Egypt’s state-run gas company has terminated a controversial 2005 gas deal with Israel, citing dispute over payment. Israel, which imports over 40 percent of its natural gas supplies from...

Economists love their indicators and indexes - from the more commonly known, such as the Big Mac Index, to the highly-lauded but hardly tested Skyscraper index, to the downright...

The Netherlands could be the latest eurozone member forced into an early election later this year, said the BBC on Saturday, after the nation’s political parties failed to agree...

With the Olympic Games less than a 100 days away, businesses and advertisers are placing high hopes on social media to create a buzz for their brands. London, the...

As its population continues to shrink and age, Japan, the third largest world economy, could lose its developed nation status and global significance by 2050, said the Tokyo-based 21st...