List of Business articles
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145494757_5-7 The Telenovela That Wasn’t
The firing of crusading Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui has become the latest cause for free press activists. But is her salacious story as straightforward as it seems?
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Two men walk under a giant advertising placard of skin-lightening products in Abidjan on May 2, 2015. Ivory Coast's government has forbidden the use of skin whitening products, popular among Ivorian women, the Health Ministry announced on May 6, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SIA KAMBOU (Photo credit should read SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images) “Whitenicious” and “Fair and White”: The Demise of Skin Whiteners in Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast is following in the footsteps of some other African countries, banning dangerous products that lighten skin. Despite these product's popularity, there is a growing movement against the skin bleaching industry.
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Indian Prime Miniser Narendra Modi (C) launches the "Make In India" project as Minister for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitaraman looks on in New Delhi on September 25, 2014. Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged September 25 to slash red tape and harness the benefits of a huge young population as he launched a campaign to attract global business to manufacture in India. India's business-friendly new leader wants to revive his country's flagging economic fortunes by kickstarting a manufacturing sector long eclipsed by that of neighbouring China. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN (Photo credit should read RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images) Narendra Modi Is Bad for Big Business
And that's a good thing -- particularly when India’s top CEOs are getting mad at him.
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FRANCE-RUSSIA-ECONOMY-MEDVEDEV-MEDEF The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia’s Silicon Valley
In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it.
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An elderly woman holds her pension received in Russian ruble notes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 1, 2015. The year-long conflict in east Ukraine has closed businesses across the industrial heartland, ramping up unemployment, crippling its financial sector and leaving it ever more reliant on Moscow. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF (Photo credit should read DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images) Ruble to the Rescue?
Russia’s currency had a record-breaking April, but good news for the broader Russian economy will be harder to find.
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BRITAIN-AVIATION-TRANSPORT-EXPANSION-HEATHROW The Arab Battle for U.S. Skies
America’s biggest airlines say the luxury carriers of the oil-rich Persian Gulf aren't playing fair. But are Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways subsidized -- or just smarter?
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467030560_960 In Pro-Corporate Tribunals We Trust
Is Obama's signature trade deal giving away the United States' right to protect its citizens?
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VATICAN-RELIGIONPOPE-AUDIENCE Can you pass the Pope’s leadership exam? Take this test, or you might go to Hell!
It’s one of the tougher leadership tests I’ve seen.
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rana Laundering the Global Garment Industry’s Dirty Business
Two years after Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster, experts say a dense network of little-known agents and subcontractors is still getting in the way of better work conditions.
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466498572 Why Buy the Hardware When China Is Getting the IP for Free?
IBM is sharing proprietary technology with Beijing in exchange for market access. Is it savvy or suicide?
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afghansigar Afghan Watchdog Finds That If You Build It, They Won’t Necessarily Come
A 37-acre industrial park in Kandahar built with $7.8 million in USAID funds has sat mostly empty since construction finished more than four years ago, says a new report.
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A man stands in a pool of water in a gold mine on February 23, 2009 in Chudja, near Bunia, north eastern Congo. The conflict in Congo has often been linked to a struggle for control over its resources. Congo is rich in mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, tin, and cobalt. The Democratic Republic of Congo government and the main former rebel group reached preliminary agreement on a wider peace deal for the east of the country on February 22, sources on both sides said. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL HEALING (Photo credit should read LIONEL HEALING/AFP/Getty Images) Clear as Mud
NGOs criticize companies’ transparency on “conflict minerals” as firms prepare to file their second annual report on the use of gold, tin, tungsten, or tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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<> on February 11, 2015 in Oakland, California. Pacific Trade Deal Inches Forward
Lawmakers cross first hurdle in passing legislation that would give the eventual trade deal and up-or-down vote.
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) during an official welcoming ceremony following the latter's arrival at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran on April 7, 2015, for an official one-day visit as the two countries criticized each other in recent weeks on their respective policies in the region. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) The Pot of Gold at the End of the Iranian Rainbow
Companies far and wide are drooling over the prospect of an opening to Iran. But doubts over the nuclear deal and the future of sanctions still dampen Tehran’s hopes for an early rehabilitation.
