President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked the governor of Turkey's central bank and replaced him with his deputy, a presidential decree said Saturday,…

After protesting for years in front of hotels, a group of Spanish chambermaids has scored victories in their struggle to end subcontracting of their services, which leaves them poor and exhausted. "We point accusing fingers at hotels by going right to their doors and shouting 'exploitation…

Diamonds are forever, and so is the permanently frozen ground of Yakutia in north eastern Siberia, home to huge diamond deposits that ensure Russia's…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, no stranger to controversy, sparked a new brouhaha this week by repeatedly defending the practice of child labor. "I've been working since I was eight years old... and today I am what I am," the far-right leader said during his weekly live forum on Facebook.…

Stock markets yesterday opened the week with downward trend due mainly to price fall in large-cap securities with lower transactions. The falling major…

The head of French energy giant Total announced on Saturday that the company would invest a hundred million dollars annually on a new forest preservation and reforestation project. "We want to set up a business unit to invest in projects that will preserve forests," chief executive Patrick…

Akram Hossain, and Mohd Selim have been elected vice-chairmen of Mercantile Bank Limited, the bank said in a press statement yesterday. Shahidul Ahsan…

Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has decided to produce a range of electric vehicles at its central England factory, it announced on Friday, securing thousands of jobs in a major boost to post-Brexit Britain. "Jaguar Land Rover today revealed plans to manufacture a range of new electrified vehicles…

Andy Halford, group chief financial officer of Standard Chartered Bank, was recently in Dhaka for his second official visit to Bangladesh, a press statement…

Saudi Arabia's King Salman hosted British finance minister Philip Hammond for talks in the western city of Jeddah yesterday, state media said, amid renewed prospects of an overseas stock listing of oil giant Aramco. The leaders discussed ways to "strengthen economic and financial cooperation"…