Archive for December 2012
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The private equity consortium which owns half of Abu Dhabi healthcare provider Al Noor Medical is reviving plans to sell its stake through a stock market listing in 2013, four sources aware of the matter
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The Mexican peso's gains are expected to be limited in the coming year, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday, due to concerns about high asset prices and a weak global economy, but the chance of
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State-owned lender BGK may step back into Polish financial markets to prop up the value of the zloty or government bonds if global turmoil encourages exaggerated moves in prices, its chief executive said. BGK has
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State-owned lender BGK may step back into Polish financial markets to prop up the value of the zloty or government bonds if global turmoil encourages exaggerated moves in prices, its chief executive said. BGK has
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The yen hit a 20-month low against the dollar on Tuesday as Japan's incoming prime minister stepped up pressure on the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to easy monetary policy, while the dollar was buoyed by
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An Internet virus attacked computers at industrial sites in southern Iran, in an apparent extension of a covert cyber war that initially targeted the country's nuclear facilities, an Iranian official said. Iran, the world's No
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Keiji Nakazawa, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor whose iconic comic strip about the incident was read by millions of school children in post-war Japan, has died, associates said Tuesday. Nakazawa, who had been ill with
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Iran is paying Russian women working as technicians at its sole nuclear power plant to adhere to the Islamic dress code, an Iranian lawmaker told the ISNA news agency on Tuesday. Women in Iran, regardless
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Eight people were killed and thousands left homeless as two fires struck the Philippine capital on Christmas Day, with one of the blazes sparking a riot in a slum, officials said. Seven charred bodies, all
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Japanese opposition party the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) chose former Economics Minister Banri Kaieda to replace the outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its new leader on Tuesday, after a crushing lower house defeat
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