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Meltdown ‘threat to banking sector jobs’Hundreds of people have lost their jobs in Bahrain’s banking sector in the last few months due to the “global financial situation,” it has emerged, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication. More… |
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Meltdown ‘threat to banking sector jobs’Hundreds of people have lost their jobs in Bahrain’s banking sector in the last few months due to the “global financial situation,” it has emerged, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication. More… |
China must abandon high growth fantasy: BillionaireChina's richest man said on Thursday the government needs to give up any "fantasy" of maintaining high economic growth rates, unusually bold comments at a time when Beijing is grappling to contain a market meltdown that has hammere More… |
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Cyprus scrambles to avert meltdownCyprus considered nationalising pension funds and ordered banks to stay shut till next week to avert financial chaos after it rejected the terms of a European Union bailout and turned to Russia for aid. More… |
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Big radiation risk ‘unlikely’ if Iran hitAny Israeli attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities are unlikely to cause a Fukushima-scale disaster unless a Russian-built reactor is destroyed, experts say. They could, however, release toxic chemicals - rather than high levels More… |
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Sound policies 'helped Bahrain buck meltdown'Bahrain has succeeded in overcoming the fallout of the global financial meltdown on the economy, Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) chief Dr Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Amer said. According to the CIO 2010 Report, sound economic policies ena More… |
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Blast strikes Japan plant, core safeA hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown, compounding a nuclear catastrophe caused by Friday's massive quake and tsunami. Japan, alre More… |
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Japan tries to avert nuclear meltdown; toll 10,000Japan fought on Sunday to avert a meltdown at three earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors, describing the massive quake and tsunami, which may have killed more than 10,000 people, as the nation's biggest crisis since World War Two. The More… |
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Rating errors 'caused global financial crisis'A lack of risk management and rating agencies that gave triple A ratings to assets which were garbage were the real cause of the financial crisis, an expert said. That, more than the excesses of banker, were the cause of the meltdown, Bahr More… |
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Europe to press ahead with tax on banksThe European Union said on Tuesday it would press ahead with its own banking levy after the world's top economies failed to agree on taxing an industry seen as a main culprit behind the global economic meltdown. Fina More… |
