- February 5th, 2013
- Posted by EUEditor
The Europol police agency has sourced a betting ring engaged in massive Football match-fixing, to a Singapore-based gambling cartel, with Russian participants and European “facilitatorsâ€. … Read More »
- January 17th, 2013
- Posted by EUEditor
Growing inequality has been registered in all countries in an assessment by the OECD, with the drive for economic development off-set by persistent poverty . … Read More »
- January 15th, 2013
- Posted by EUEditor
“Wotch out for the chunder from down under!â€, British tabloids are screaming *; more prosaic but also to the point is this warning from the Eurosurveillance public health service:
“Healthcare institutions are advised to be prepared for a severe norovirus season.†… Read More »
- November 6th, 2012
- Posted by 7thmin
The leaders of 49 countries of Asia and Europe have ended a two-day summit, 5-6.11.12, in the Laotian capital Vientiane, declaring for closer cooperative in managing global economic relations. … Read More »
- November 1st, 2012
- Posted by EUEditor
Australian tourism is casting around for some new formulae to get the good times rolling again.
Whether pricing itself out of business, with the high A-dollar, or being cold-shouldered by very many of those leading global travellers, the Europeans, it’s a case of a lead export industry now running at well below optimum levels.
Writer Elena Eichenlaub has been looking at the facts and figures of the business, while taking in some of the sights of the land of overpowering beauty and adventure, and talking to people on the ground – getting things I n perspective.
She says one of the key the answers to the present Australian dilemma, a new tourist trade from Asia, has been sluggish to get going. Elena Eichenlaub writes: … Read More »
- July 1st, 2012
- Posted by EUEditor
The countries of the European Union work together as a bloc, to build a relationship with the South-east Asian region, described in Brussels as “very strongâ€.
Part of it is covered by direct dealings between the EU and a similar, but different grouping, the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Jessica Sier reports that very much of the work is now actually changing over to more direct relations between Europe and individual ASEAN members, which better suits their economic realities. … Read More »