Author : EW News Desk Team

Congressional negotiators briefly reopened the conference proceedings on a sweeping financial regulatory bill on Tuesday after Senate Republicans who had supported an earlier version of the measure threatened to...

Quantitative funds, or "quants," are the “black boxes” of investing — portfolios run by managers who generally try to generate profit with computer algorithms that they don’t share with...

Under intense scrutiny after several suicides at its factories in southern China this year, Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, has decided to stop operating...

While Japan’s long economic stagnation has prompted a slow dismantling of the nation’s postwar order, punctuated by a historic change of government last year, one pillar of that order,...

New mining in Zimbabwe has quickly yielded millions of carats of diamonds and could help catapult the nation into the ranks of the world’s top diamond producers, according to...

Ever since we started here, we've been saying the "advanced" world - US / EU / Japan - are in a depression, whatever good things - which we hope...

Han Dongfang is founder of the China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based organization that defends the rights of workers across China. After 30 years of reform and spectacular economic...

The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year...

While this interview does not take account of the massive explosion of labor militancy in China that has occurred during the past few weeks, it does nevertheless provide some...

MAYANGE, Rwanda — The maternity ward in the Mayange district health center is nothing fancy. It has no running water, and the delivery room is little more than a...