Economic, Business & Labor

12+ hour, 28+ min ago   (401+ words) Nearly eight months after being officially declared the new political capital of Equatorial Guinea, Ciudad de la Paz has yet to reach its full potential. In early January, a presidential decree officially made Ciudad de la Paz, formerly Oyala, the…...

6+ hour, 38+ min ago   (1698+ words) The Mozambique neighbourhood is a ring of six countries along the Indian Ocean, and four of them have no sea coast. That makes Mozambique’s ports, railways, pipelines and power lines a lifeline for much of southern Africa. For a US…...

17+ hour, 39+ min ago   (410+ words) National Park Service (.gov) Official websites use.gov Secure.gov websites use HTTPS Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Parking - Auto When the federal government relocated the Iowa, Sac, and Fox tribes from their Missouri homelands to a reservation in northeastern Kansas…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (864+ words) When it comes to German social insurance, the name Otto von Bismarck comes up. Health insurance in 1883, accident insurance in 1884, and old-age and disability insurance in 1889. It is often explained that the German Empire established the systems that lead to…...

15+ hour, 18+ min ago   (78+ words) Prescott Daily Courier The first issue of the Arizona Miner came off the press on March 9, 1864, at Fort Whipple in Little Chino Valley When the territorial government moved to a new town on Granite Creek that spring, the paper followed,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (841+ words) It is Nigeria’s 66th Independence Day anniversary today. Ordinarily, the streets should be agog with celebration — colours, carnivals, buntings, bouquets and frenzied fanfare. But somehow, the drums are silent, or at best, muted. The land seems sombre; even the airwaves are…...

1+ day, 19+ min ago   (464+ words) Archaeologists in Scotland recently uncovered an Anglo-Saxon coin dating back 1,000 years — minted under a king known as “the Unready.” The coin was unearthed during an excavation in Nesting, a coastal community in Scotland’s eastern Shetland Islands, according to Jam Press....

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1748+ words) SOUTH AFRICA · NEIGHBOURS South Africa neighbours six countries, and they form its main regional market. For US investors, the neighbourhood is a major market for South African firms and a source of water, power and workers. South Africa’s government lists…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (235+ words) Remembering the Strategy Behind World War II’s Battle of Cape Matapan The Italian Empire entered the war in 1940 … Clash in the Mediterranean: The Strategic Context of the Battle of Cape Matapan Remembering the Strategy Behind World War II’s Battle of…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (391+ words) I recently had the pleasure of visiting Epping Forest District Museum to see a new addition to its collection, an early Medieval gold ring discovered by a metal detectorist in Matching, which falls in the constituency I represent. Dating from…...