Saturday, September 4th, 2010 Business.
Learning English can be fun and exciting when the pressure from a traditional classroom setting is eliminated. Today’s way to learn to speak, read and write in English is to take part in an online English course to build vocabulary and sentence structure at your own pace. Many of the online English schools are free [...]
Saturday, September 4th, 2010 Business.
Current Font Size: Media freedom and public debate are the life breath and the heartbeat of a functioning democracy. They are not sacred icons and we all know that the media do not always work perfectly. They get things wrong and they often step out of line. Despite that, a free press is as essential [...]
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Business.
Kirby gets chemistry unswerving at Dulux IN an international business career spanning nearly four decades, Peter Kirby has acquired affluence of skills. But one, he says, is gravely under-appreciated in the corporate world. "You look around in the whole corporate governance superficies, and ask what do ex-CEOs bring? People say generic skills. But which they [...]
Saturday, August 21st, 2010 Business.
AWB provision warms to Agrium offer THE board of AWB is set to commend that shareholders accept a $1.2 billion takeover offer from Agrium. The fare’s recommendation hinges on its belief that competitor suitor GrainCorp is unlikely to develop a superior offer over the weekend. Less than a week hind flagging its interest in the local wheat exporter, [...]
Friday, August 20th, 2010 Business.
ANZ warns of lingering growth aheadANZ has announced a solid increase in its third-territory profit, but says the outlook for the global economy remains ‘unusually indefinite’. In its third quarter trading update, the bank has revealed some underlying profit after tax of $1.3 billion for the three months to the extremity of June. That is [...]