Investing in Women: Job creation for women in non-traditional Trades More than $200,000 in grants have been announced for successful applicants under the NSW Government’s Investing in Women funding program. Announcing the... Read more »
To encourage exceptional women to the field of business, Australia has announced scholarship for women in business studies. The opening of nominations for the 2015 Beryl Wilson Austrade Scholarship for Women in International... Read more »
Small business advisory service providers can now apply for funding of up to $200,000 per annum over three years to provide expert advice to small businesses under the Australian Small Business Advisory Services programme.... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The government claimed on Thursday that the 22-day sit-in on the Constitution Avenue and subsequent political unrest had adversely affected the country’s economy, caused a loss of about Rs547 billion to... Read more »
SYDNEY Airport says it’s well placed to capitalise on traffic growth after more than doubling its first half profit. THE company made a $53.9 million net profit in the six months to... Read more »
THE fallout for big banks from the global financial crisis is continuing, with Bank of America the latest in a string of institutions hit with multi-billion dollar fines. Bank of America has... Read more »
KARACHI: Pakistani stocks tumbled over 666 points on day Monday, with the market continuing the free-fall it had witnessed on the last trading day before Eidul Fitr holidays. At the close of... Read more »
US firm to lay off thousands of staff, including nearly half of Nokia employees who joined in April after acquisition. Microsoft has announced the biggest layoffs in its 39-year history, outlining plans... Read more »
BANKING giant Lloyds is to axe another 500 jobs under “organisational changes” in its finance and retail sections. THE bank, part-owned by the taxpayer, said the cuts were part of 15,000 previously... Read more »
Almost 200 neuro-scientists say $1.6b bid to recreate human-brain function on supercomputers will waste too much money. Almost 200 neuro-scientists are protesting Europe’s $1.6bn attempt to recreate the functioning of the human... Read more »
NEW Zealand shares have risen on the coat-tails of offshore markets. THE NZX 50 Index rose 21.511 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 5188.905 on Friday. Within the index, 27 stocks rose,... Read more »
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly’s session for presentation of budget proposals for fiscal year 2014-2015 was under way here on Friday. The session was being chaired by Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani.... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Geo News is suing the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for defamation over accusations of being anti-state, it said on Friday. Geo News, part of the privately-owned Jang Group, has also given the... Read more »
The co-founder of notorious piracy listings site The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Sweden after two years on the run. Peter Sunde, 35, had been sentenced to eight months in prison... Read more »
CHINA signed a landmark $400 billion deal Wednesday to buy natural gas from Russia. The deal binds Moscow more closely to Beijing at a time when President Vladimir Putin’s relations with the... Read more »
Online giant asks users to reset passwords after hackers broke its database containing clients’ information. US online giant eBay has asked its users to change their passwords after the company announced that... Read more »
CREDIT card customers are getting stung with exorbitant charges by failing to maximise the interest-free days on their cards correctly. Failing to pay off a card’s balance in full each month and... Read more »
New Delhi, May 18: German auto giant Volkswagen Group is planning to invest about 100 million euros (over Rs 800 crore) in India to expand business, including launches of sedan and SUV... Read more »
Tokyo – Asian shares were supported on Tuesday after Wall Street stocks extended gains into a fifth day, though investors continued to see tensions in Ukraine as a threat to risk appetite.... Read more »
Qatar Airways will double the number of weekly flights to Gassim from four to eight from May 15, while Madinah flights were recently increased from five to seven per week.The airline has also... Read more »
Europe’s top court has rejected the UK’s challenge to the introduction of an EU financial transactions tax (FTT), which ministers have said will damage British firms. The European Court of Justice (ECJ)... Read more »
Microsoft Corp said it will increase its cloud storage offering for business users by 40-fold as the world’s largest software company makes a case for businesses buying an all-in-one product from itself... Read more »
Etisalat, the leading telecommunications operator in the UAE, said it has signed a multi-currency club deal worth 3.15 billion euros ($4.35 billion) with a group of seventeen international, regional and local banks.The move is aimed... Read more »
Saudi Arabia has commissioned the first phase of the world’s largest desalination project, being built at a cost of SR27 billion ($7.2 billion) in Ras Al Khair, a report said.The plant for production... Read more »