Many female executives who are seeking to get onto a public or private company board are going about it in the wrong way, say Nancy Calderon and Susan Stautberg, authors of the new book Women on Board. Pursuing a board position is not the same as looking for a job. Interviewing for a job requires you to demonstrate your leadership skills, while interviewing for a director's position requires you to demonstrate how well you'd fit into the board's culture, according to the book.
Premier Li Keqiang famously said in Brussels that once Europe creates environmentally friendly and cutting-edge economic solutions that can benefit China's markets, miracles will happen.
Qamar Zaman Minhas, chairman of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong, had not expected that Hong Kong's first-ever issue of a sovereign Islamic bond, or sukuk, would generate such a strong market response.
In October, the UK government became the first in the Western world to issue a sovereign bond in China's currency, the renminbi.
Fortune Character Institute's 2014 China Luxury Report found that 76 percent of Chinese luxury consumption occurred overseas last year, and that raises many questions. Are import duties too high? Is the anti-corruption drive simply too much? Are there too many fake products in China? Are Chinese luxury shops destined to be venues for bad shopping experiences? Whatever answers you come up with for these questions, it has to be said that the real problem at the heart of this overseas spending is a Chinese character trait: a lack of confidence.
In China, the first half of every March is the time for the so-called two sessions - the annual meetings of the top legislature of the National People's Congress and the political advisers in the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The Islamic State group has begun ravaging the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the extremists' latest attack on the country's heritage.
Film star Harrison Ford crash-landed his World War II-era airplane after losing engine power, suffering serious but not life-threatening injuries as he used his years of experience as a pilot to avoid nearby homes.
Japan is looking into creating an overseas intelligence agency possibly modeled on Britain's MI6 spy service, ruling party lawmakers have said, 70 years after Allied victors dismantled Japan's fearsome military intelligence apparatus following World War II.
Republic of Korea prosecutors formed a special team on Thursday to investigate the attack against the US ambassador after police raided the home and office of the alleged assailant, local media said on Friday.
The Syrian army carried out an operation that killed the military commander of the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front on Thursday in northwestern Syria, Syrian state media reported. Abu Humam al-Shami was killed by an explosion during a meeting of Nusra Front leaders in Idlib province. Insurgent sources said at least three other al-Nusra Front commanders were killed in the blast.
Smartphone maker will not expand into other sectors, insists chairman, amid diversity rumors
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