Global leaders gather in the Argentine capital for a G20 summit beginning tomorrow likely to be dominated by simmering international tensions over trade.…

From providing cow urine, incense and bamboo stretchers to booking a Hindu priest at the last minute, startups are seeking to cash in on India’s…

The government of Bangladesh, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and stakeholders at a dissemination forum yesterday discussed the tools for designing climate-smart development projects. Programming Division of the Planning Commission and the ADB jointly organised the dissemination forum on “Establishing…

China, currently engaged in a trade war with the United States, is seeking to strengthen its ties with Spain and Portugal as other European Union members are trying to restrict Chinese investments. China’s President Xi Jinping began a three day visit to Spain on Tuesday on his way to a meeting…

The Netherlands said it will tighten rules on tax breaks for foreign firms after facing criticism from the EU for offering complicated schemes for multinationals. Dutch authorities said they were cracking down on “letter box firms” with a Dutch address which allow foreign countries to benefit…

Canadian postal workers vowed civil disobedience as they went back to work Tuesday after the government ended a strike over rising workplace injuries in the booming e-commerce sector. Online businesses that rely on Canada Post to deliver their wares hailed the move to “salvage the holiday season”…

Growth in lending to businesses in the 19-nation euro area slowed in October, European Central Bank data showed Wednesday, in a further sign of stuttering expansion in the bloc. Adjusted for some purely financial transactions, growth in lending to non-financial firms fell to 3.9 percent year-on-year…

A reduction in Italy’s public deficit to 2.2 percent, as certain government officials have suggested, is insufficient to avoid EU sanctions, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said yesterday. In an interview with La Stampa newspaper, Dombrovskis said that since the deficit of…

A reduction in Italy’s public deficit to 2.2 percent, as certain government officials have suggested, is insufficient to avoid EU sanctions, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said yesterday. In an interview with La Stampa newspaper, Dombrovskis said that since the deficit of…