The deadline to decide which university to attend—Business Plans and therefore which undergraduate business program—is quickly approaching. It’s the biggest decision of your life so far, and you’re feeling the pressure. You want to choose the right college, and your parents want to know where they’ll be handing over their life savings.
Rather than flip a [...]
Ivan Vassilev (45) has been TNT Bulgaria’s general manager since the company registered here on January 1 1996. TNT Bulgaria has been an active member of UN Global Compact (GC) in Bulgaria since 2002, as well as of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum (BBLF) and a member of its board since 2002. In 2003, TNT [...]
The Dubai World-sponsored educational trip by Sharjah Men’s College (SMC) students to San Diego culminated in an exciting achievement when they became the 1st runner up in the 2008 International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition (ICBSC) held at the San Diego State University in the US.
The SMC Higher Diploma students of Business Studies - level 6- [...]
By Jeremy R. Cooke NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): Puerto Rico offered $725 million of debt on Thursday, leading US tax-exempt debt sales, as municipal bonds declined the most in six weeks amid increased issuance. Puerto Rico started selling fixed-rate bonds as part of the commonwealth’s plan to refinance or convert auction debt whose rates were [...]
By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters): Caribbean countries must turn to other export and tourism markets to cushion the potential impact of a recession in the United States, an official from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said on Tuesday. Neil Pierre, director of the subregional headquarters for the group known as [...]
By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters): Caribbean countries must turn to other export and tourism markets to cushion the potential impact of a recession in the United States, an official from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said on Tuesday. Neil Pierre, director of the subregional headquarters for the group known as [...]
By Daniel Flynn ACCRA (Reuters): Proposed trade deals between Europe and dozens of its former colonies would expose poor nations to cheap industrial imports and slash their customs revenues, British-based charity Oxfam said on Monday. In a report entitled %26quot;Partnership or Power Play?%26quot;, Oxfam called on the 35 countries from the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific [...]
By Daniel Bases WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): A doubling of food prices in the last three years could potentially put 100 million people in low income countries deeper into poverty and raise the global poverty rate as much as 3 to 5 percentage points, a senior World Bank official said on Thursday. %26quot;When it doesn’t include [...]
By Daniel Bases WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): The US economic downturn is likely to slow economic growth in other Western Hemisphere countries while high-priced commodities and domestic demand is seen exacerbating inflation pressures, the IMF said on Friday. US economic growth is expected to be an anemic 0.5 percent in 2008, rising to just 0.6 percent [...]
By Emily Chasan NEW YORK, USA (Reuters): The liquidators of two Bear Stearns Cos mortgage hedge funds that collapsed last year, filed suit on Monday against the company and its auditor, Deloitte %26amp; Touche [DLTE.UL], seeking to recover over $1 billion in losses. The suit, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, accuses Bear, the [...]
