DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry's dismal pay and... [Full Article]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch banking and insurance group ING , which last week spun off its U.S. insurance and investment unit, said on Wednesday it will push ahead with similar plans for its European business next year. ING, which was bailed out by t... [Full Article]
By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - The largest Native American tribe in the United States is seeking to dub the classic 1977 movie "Star Wars" movie in Navajo as a way to help preserve its traditional language. Fluent Navajo speakers hav... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group said on Monday it will relaunch PSX, its third trading platform, in May with a specific focus on exchange-traded products (ETPs). Nasdaq plans to offer incentives to firms that act as market mak... [Full Article]
By Lee Chyen Yee HONG KONG (Reuters) - The next CEO of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will not be a family member of the incumbent chief, Ren Zhengfei, an ex-military officer who founded the company 26 years ago and built an empire that now ... [Full Article]
By Li-mei Hoang LONDON (Reuters) - British fashion designer and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham said life as a working mother is a struggle but she relishes the challenge and plans to expand her empire with a retail store in London. As mother to t... [Full Article]
By Ulf Laessing and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Kenana, Sudan's biggest sugar producer, plans to more than triple its ethanol output within two years to become a major biofuel exporter and intends to make a stock market offering in Sou... [Full Article]
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo returned to the London stage this week for his debut in Giuseppe Verdi's "Nabucco", saying he has no plans to slow down with a packed schedule for the year ah... [Full Article]
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will impose a tax of 0.001 percent on bank credit, loans and advances, according to a law approved in principle by the upper house of parliament on Wednesday, the state news agency and a lawmaker said. The law is part of a pac... [Full Article]