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Spanish shirt-seller is world's third-richest man
The recession ravaging Spain's economy has not held back Amancio Ortega, a railwayman's son from Galicia, who has just leaped to third place in Forbes magazine's listing of the richest people in the world.
05 March 2013
Swiss overwhelmingly vote for golden parachute ban
A large majority of Swiss voted Sunday to rein in executive pay and force business leaders to give up golden parachutes, according to final results of the popular vote.
04 March 2013
Businessman mulls Astana-Almaty airship link
Astana entrepreneur Herman Dubintsev wants to establish production of airships in Kazakhstan.
11 February 2013
Kazakhstan business-angels club to invest $1 million in startups
An informal business-angels club has been launched in Kazakhstan.
07 February 2013
Kazakhstan to get new Business Road Map
I instruct the Prime-Minister to personally develop the new Road Map, similar to the old one. Shake off the dust, it is ready: Nursultan Nazarbayev.
23 January 2013
Obama's inauguration a boon for businesses
Tucked behind a tidy souvenir shop storefront on the ground floor of an office building one block from the White House.
19 January 2013
Japan PM criticises targeting of firms in China row
China was "wrong" to deliberately target Japanese business interests as part of a state campaign in a row over disputed territory.
11 January 2013
Kazakhstan service for Instagram got into Russian Startup Rating
Printogram.me is used for printing photos from Instagram in the form of photographs, polaroids and paintings for interior decorations.
21 December 2012
US financier tied to Pinochet money laundering dies
Texas financier and media magnate Joe Allbritton, who lost the scandal-racked Riggs bank to a hostile takeover after it was fined for helping Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet launder money, has died at the age of 87.
13 December 2012
Kazakhstan's IAB and KIMEP among world's best business schools
Kazakhstan’s International Academy of Business (IAB) and KIMEP University got into the Top 1000 of world’s best business schools made by Eduniversal rating agency.
10 December 2012
Pressure mounts on fiscal cliff, Obama urges fix
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday called for a pre-Christmas deal with Republicans to avert a year-end tax and deficit crunch, as pressure mounted from the business world and stock markets fluttered.
30 November 2012
'Digital eternity' beckons as death goes high-tech
Death is no longer the fusty business it once was: from swipeable bar codes on headstones to designer urns, webcam-based ceremonies and virtual memorials, funerals have shot into the 21st century.
31 October 2012
Nazarbayev took part in opening of Kazakhstan-Czech business forum
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus took part in the opening of Kazakhstan-Czech business forum.
29 October 2012
Clinton to boost women's entrepreneurship in Peru
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Peru on Monday to push for greater access for women to capital and know-how to start their own businesses and become a motor for economic growth.
16 October 2012
US lawmakers question China organ transplants
US lawmakers called Wednesday for pressure on China to stop the use of organs from executed inmates, as experts charged that transplants had become a business that may target prisoners of conscience.
13 September 2012
Mining magnate Rinehart says Australia 'too expensive'
Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart on Wednesday warned Australia was becoming too expensive for multinational companies who could source workers for two dollars a day in Africa.
06 September 2012
Ilya Ilyin's photo to be printed on T-shirts
Kazakhstan actor Anuar Nurpeissov wants to produce T-shirts with a photo of Kazakhstan's weightlifter and Olympic champion Ilya Ilyin.
04 September 2012
Craft beers enjoy boom despite Italy's crisis
With oyster, tobacco and watermelon flavoured brews, Italy's craft beers are flourishing despite a punishing recession that is putting thousands of other businesses out of work.
29 August 2012
N. Korea allows S. Korea executives to visit resort
North Korea will allow South Korean business executives to visit a jointly-developed tourism resort despite an acrimonious years-long dispute over the project.
31 July 2012
Half of Kazakhstan citizens consider themselves workaholics
According to the poll by HeadHunter, 47% of еру polled Kazakhstan employees sees themselves as work addicts.
30 July 2012