QUNAR to report second quarter 2015 financial results on August 24, 2015
BEIJING, Aug. 19, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Qunar Cayman Islands Limited (Nasdaq:QUNR) (“Qunar” or the “Company”), China’s leading mobile and online travel platform, today announced that it will report its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015,…
Ex-Mittal adviser starts U.K. Bank with Wadhwani, Turner’s help
By Richard Partington From Bloomberg Rishi Khosla, once an adviser to Lakshmi Mittal, started a bank from scratch in the U.K. Its prospects have lured a former Bank of England rate-setter and a past top market watchdog to help out….
Unaware, ISIS beheads its own sorcery and sorcerers
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Just as religious fundamentalists view the power of science and modernity as the chief source of disenchantment, they see sorcery and superstition as a cause of evil.(1) But whether they realize it or not,…
RBS agrees to sell Luxembourg fund business
By Emma Dunkley From Financial Times Royal Bank of Scotland has struck a deal to sell its Luxembourg fund arm to private equity group Blackfin Capital Partners as part of a restructuring aimed at focusing on UK retail and commercial…
Bin Laden’s son calls for lone wolf attacks on US
By Sandy Fitzgerald From Newsmax Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza, who the terror leader was reportedly grooming as his successor before American forces killed him in 2011, has released a message calling for attacks on western cities, specifying London, Washington,…
Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago pursue cooperation
By Azad Ali from Caribbean Life Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago have agreed to pursue a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the near future. The two countries recently discussed five areas for development: agriculture, education, energy, infrastructure for partnership and…
The Editor Speaks: Anger
I am somewhat mystified after reading the circumstances leading up to and after the arrest, charging and now court case involving former CITN/Cayman 27 Reporter and former aide to Premier Alden McLaughlin, Kenneth Bryan. Initially it would appear from the…
Ex-FIFA vice president Webb appears in New York federal court
IANS From New Kerala Former president of North, Central American and Caribbean football federation CONCACAF Jeffrey Webb has appeared in a New York federal court in connection with the FIFA bribery scandal that has sent shockwaves through the football world….
BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager survey finds weakening outlook for global economy amid fears over China
Record Low Sentiment Towards Emerging Markets and Energy Sector August 18, 2015 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Global investors have shifted their attention from Greece to China amid continued concern of a Chinese recession, according to the BofA…
Ja granted US$130-m IDB loan for economic growth programme
From Jamaica Observer THE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Wednesday approved a US$130-million loan to Jamaica which the bank says will be used to strengthen the island’s structural programme for economic growth. “This is the second operation of a policy-based…
