Shares of several Hong Kong property developers advanced on speculation the city’s Chief Executive John Lee will adopt measures to help shore up home prices, following a call by an industry body.
Homeowners win Swiss franc loan fight
A number of home buyers in Cyprus have won their legal battle to be released from their crippling Swiss franc loans..
Georgia’s Walker-Warnock debate: good for TV, bad for Republicans and American politics
Tonight’s debate will be a combination of tribalism mixed with vicious personal attacks — in other words, the worst thing for America.
Kuwait installs cameras in bid to cut crimes, theft
Kuwait – Surveillance cameras linked with the Operations Unit at the Ministry of Interior have been installed to monitor the security situation in different parts of the country round the clock, …
Advice to Japan in the face of the Chinese, Russia and North Korea aggressions
Once the mighty tech giant of the world, Japan has not been spared its own fair share of the economic turbulence and stark insecurity the world is going through, especially, in her own backyard.
Expired drug kills 10 child Leukemia patients in Yemen
Some 10 child Leukemia patients in Yemen have died, and dozens more left seriously ill, after being administered expired doses of a cancer …
How to build resilience against disasters in Bangladesh
Though Bangladesh has made tremendous achievements in reducing casualties in natural disasters, correcting poor implementation of projects, weak infrastructure, unplanned rapid urbanisation and lack o …
Sisters get property share after 22 years with help of RTI Commission
Commission chaired by Chief Commissioner, Muhammad Salim Khan here Friday directed teshildar and patwari to transfer rightful share of ancestral property to two si …
Progressives and Palestinians
Last year three established human rights organizations with reputations for reliable findings produced fact-based public reports demonstrating Israel’s …
Theodor Herzl after Basel: The New King of the Jews Visits Palestine
The First Zionist Congress in 1897 electrified the Jewish masses – and stirred the (kosher) doubting Thomases. Critics came not only from the assimilationists and the fundamentalists but from some …