International

• Friday, September 10th 2010 - 03:21 UTC

  Goldman Sachs fined 27 million USD in UK for “inadequate disclosure”

  

  The United Kingdom financial watchdog slapped a 27 million US dollars fine on Goldman Sachs for inadequate disclosure of a US probe into the Wall Street powerhouse.

• Friday, September 10th 2010 - 03:17 UTC

  Gibraltar prepares to celebrate National Day

  

  Chief Minister Peter Caruana has highlighted the importance of Gibraltar’s National Day, September 10, as a celebration of identity and culture.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 23:08 UTC

  India increasing trade and investment links with Peru

  

  Following closely on the steps of China but with lesser exposure India is increasing trade, investment and business links with Latin America, the latest of which a Bussiness seminar in Lima, Peru.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 22:52 UTC

  Forbes: Chile, Peru, Colombia, best countries for business in Latin America

  

  Chile, Peru, Colombia are listed among the Best Countries for Business according to a ranking from the US Forbes magazine which includes 129 countries taking into consideration several indexes: GDP growth, GDP/capita, trade balance, population and budget affairs.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 05:31 UTC

  Time Magazine has Cristina Kirchner among the world’s top ten Female Leaders

  

  Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been listed by Time magazine among the top ten Female Leaders of the world. Time says Mrs. Kirchner “has proven to be her own woman” having survived since elected in 2007 several serious standoffs.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 05:26 UTC

  Japanese Yen rallies to 15-year high on China’s record purchase of bonds

  

  As the Yen rallied to a fifteen year high against the US dollar, Japan’s government said it will seek discussions with China over the nation’s record purchases of Japanese bonds as an appreciating currency threatens to undermine an economic recovery.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 00:53 UTC

  Cambridge knocks Harvard off the top of QS World university ratings

  

  The University of Cambridge has knocked Harvard University off the top of the QS World University Ratings, as the U.K. establishment’s number of academic citations rose.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Fidel tells Iranian president to stop slandering Jews and understand ‘anti-Semitism’

  

  Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop slandering the Jews, according to an article published on the US website The Atlantic on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 03:26 UTC

  Soros donates 100 million USD to expand Human Rights Watch in key regional capitals

  

  Hungarian born US billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros is donating 100 million US dollars to the group Human Rights Watch. In a statement Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said Soros is giving the grant through his Open Society Foundations, which he established to promote tolerance and democracy around the world.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 03:24 UTC

  Labour victory in Australia means 30% mining tax will go ahead

  

  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured a razor-thin parliamentary majority ending a political impasse but investors are worried about the fragility of her government and its plans to tax mining profits.