The Chinese stock market, described recently by one analyst as being "on fire", finally showed a few jitters last week.
Kyle Shapiro has ticked a few boxes since moving to Shanghai five years ago: He has started his own business, worked on a major blockbuster with Jackie Chan, done a TV ad for Sony and set up the city's only Ninja Warrior program.
The market is becoming brutally competitive. It is much like a war, and to survive, organizations must become proficient in innovation. In the book, the authors reveal techniques that organizations can apply immediately to building an innovative business culture that is fast and nimble, enabling them to seize opportunities before the competition, getting ahead, and staying there.
Globalization demands that cultures learn to work within each other's needs and expectations. The right mix of people skills, business acumen and cultural awareness is the key to successful engagement with cultures around the world.
Private organizations from the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed to hold a joint event in Seoul next month to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the historic June 15 Declaration, local media said on Friday.
Thailand's military-appointed legislature banned a former commerce minister from office on Friday over corrupt rice export deals, months after former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached for negligence in a rice-pledging scheme.
Newsgathering by drone is gaining traction as an industry practice, but how the technology can actually be used to cover the news of the day is murky given its legal limitations.
A Japanese zoo that caused a furor by naming a baby monkey after Britain's Princess Charlotte was told to stick to its guns by the local mayor after two days of fraught debate.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's chief business adviser has accused the United Nations of using debunked climate change science to lead "a new world order" - a provocative claim made to coincide with a visit from Christiana Figueres, the UN's top climate negotiator.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would press ahead with a planned referendum on the country's membership of the European Union and he promised Scotland more self-governing power after his resounding election victory.
Ed Miliband quit as Labour leader on Friday after his opposition party was decisively beaten at the polls by Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives. "Britain needs a strong Labour Party. Britain needs a Labour Party that can rebuild after this defeat so we can have a government that stands up for working people again," Miliband told a party meeting.
US Senator Barbara Mikulski said on Thursday that she and other members of the state of Maryland's congressional delegation support Baltimore's mayor in seeking a broad federal investigation into whether city police engage in discriminatory patterns or practices.
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