The British University in Dubai (BUiD), a leading research-based postgraduate university, is offering three full-tuition fellowships in a bid to recruit the region鈥檚 most talented IT graduates for its master鈥檚 programme in IT...
BANGALORE, Aug 11 - Come June every year, and Infosys Technologies, India's second-biggest software services exporter, turns trainer for the nearly 30,000 students it recruits from top engineering colleges every year. Its training campus in...
A leading union official has praised the Central Bank of Bahrain's (CBB) decision to place two of the kingdom's troubled banks in administration, but has pleaded with the government not to forget that people's livelihoods were also at stake.
* Good policies encourage more births, study finds * Wealth and well-being equal higher fertility WASHINGTON, Aug 5 - Wealthy countries worried about their shrinking birth rates may have had their prayers answered. If they...
KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 - Malaysian premier Najib Razak announced on Monday more populist measures, including a promise to slash street crime, aimed at boosting investment and countering opposition gains. Najib said the government would...
BEIJING, July 21 - Some Chinese universities have inflated graduate employment figures by issuing bogus work contracts as millions struggle to find work amid the downturn, an official newspaper said on Tuesday. The financial crisis...
* Sotomayor confirmation all but assured * Her position on abortion, gun control still unclear * Republicans to argue judges should rule according to law (adds White House quote, paragraph 7) WASHINGTON, July 12 -...
(For a factbox on the industry's influential sharia scholars, please double click on [ID:nKLR115626] KUALA LUMPUR/MANAMA, July 8 - Religion may be the bedrock of Islamic finance but influential sharia adviser Mohd Daud Bakar says...
* Recession has pushed millions more into extreme poverty * Sickness more prevalent, life-saving drugs out of reach * U.N. Secretary-General calls for continued aid in crisis U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said impoverished people have...
* Taxes set to rise, spending faces axe * Political scandal to complicate policy-making * Unlike 1970s, Britain faces no wage-price spiral * But long-term inflation worries may grow LONDON, June 12 - When Labour...