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  • Wanted: a Brazilian Mark Zuckerberg

    Latin America’s economic giant needs someone like the Facebook CEO to support immigration reform to bring much-needed professionals, says Moisés Naím - May 24, 04:42pm

  • Algeria gets jitters over absent president

    The failure of ailing Abdelaziz Bouteflika to return from Paris has become a crisis and raised fears for the nation’s political and economic future - May 24, 04:34pm

  • Hizbollah’s Syria role fuels sectarianism

    In going to the aid of the Assad regime and warning of extremists within the rebels’ ranks, the militant group risks bringing Sunni-Shia violence to Lebanon - May 24, 04:19pm

  • The global garment trade

    One of the world’s most mobile industries is always in search of lower costs. This interactive graphic explores the changing map of clothing exporters - May 24, 04:04pm

  • Scandal and crime claims threaten IPL

    Glamorous tournament’s future hangs in the balance as an enthusiastic police investigation has placed every element of the tournament under suspicion - May 24, 02:38pm

  • Problems mount for ‘Kirchnerismo’

    Country remains mired in problems following populist nationalism that was started by Néstor Kirchner and deepened by his wife Cristina Fernández - May 24, 02:20pm

  • Pakistan seeks $4bn-$5bn Saudi loan

    Sharif looks to to avert a balance of payments crisis and boost electricity supplies while Pakistan agrees a new programme with the IMF - May 24, 10:04am

  • China clears Dreamliner for flights

    US manufacturer has targeted Chinese airlines for sales of the new wide-body jet and forecasts 5,260 new aircraft to be bought in next two decades - May 24, 06:13am

  • Pearson to reorganise business divisions

    Global education group announces management shake-up to position itself for growth in emerging markets and digital services - May 23, 10:40pm

  • Wall Street shrugs off Nikkei slide

    Bullish US equity investors brush aside steep losses for Japanese shares and concerns about the outlook for the Chinese economy - May 23, 09:16pm

  • Investors seem to ignore the real world

    Hopes that the world economy would rebound thanks to the use of monetary drugs, recovery in the US and strength in China look hallucinatory - May 23, 07:39pm

  • Obama and the one-sided drone war

    Since they began in November 2002 in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, the US has conducted approximately 425 non-battlefield targeted killings - May 23, 07:34pm

  • SABMiller: EM boost

    Emerging markets drive most of the 14% growth in the group’s operating profit in the year to the end of March, annual results show - May 23, 05:48pm

  • Chinese solar industry seeks tariff deals

    Panel makers seek settlements with the EU and US to avoid steep charges that they claim penalise operations as they struggle with losses - May 23, 04:42pm

  • Glass half-empty at Heineken

    Has the brewer been slow in lessening its dependence on western Europe, and in seizing opportunities presented by new markets? Tony Barber asks - May 23, 02:05pm

  • ITG launches dark pool in Singapore

    Sign of growing interest in the off-exchange facilities, which has sometimes been controversial as they have sucked trading away from exchanges - May 23, 11:22am

  • China data add urgency to stimulus calls

    Factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months, raising concerns of sluggish growth and adding to pressure on Beijing to act - May 23, 10:01am

  • Fears grow over EM sovereign bond bubble

    Even investment bankers orchestrating these bond sales are becoming concerned the market is overly frothy as cash-rich fund managers seek out yield - May 23, 09:18am

  • Asian debt: Beware of bubbles

    Southeast Asia’s booming bond market has sparked fears of a bubble but the region is in more robust shape to withstand shocks than in the late 1990s - May 22, 06:57pm

  • Dollar rally saps Asian currency strength

    Traditional view of Asia’s currencies as play on risk gives way to a more nuanced approach as rates are cut and tapering of Federal Reserve asset-buying looms - May 22, 06:35pm

  • Hard to build an ‘anyone but China’ club

    No one will say it, but the unstated aim of the TPP is to create a ‘high level’ trade agreement excluding the world’s second-largest economy - May 22, 06:24pm

  • Labour unrest threatens UAE construction

    As the country embarks on a renewed development drive, the Arabtec strike is reminder of pitfalls last seen during the boom years - May 22, 06:11pm

  • SocGen to fire chief of Russian lender

    French bank hires Deloitte to investigate after Vladimir Golubkov, head of its subsidiary Rosbank, was placed under house arrest on bribery charges - May 22, 06:09pm

  • N Korean envoy visits China amid tensions

    A senior aide to Kim Jong-eun has arrived in Beijing at a time when Pyongyang’s nuclear activities and belligerent rhetoric have stirred concerns - May 22, 04:57pm

  • Ai Weiwei mocks state in music video

    Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist, has dedicated to dissidents everywhere a heavy-metal video he has made that satirises the power of state authorities - May 22, 04:45pm

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