They can make in a month what the average worker earns in a lifetime. Many go about in private jets, employ multiple secretaries and glad-hand dignitaries and world leaders. Perched at the top of major corporations around the world, the chief executive officer blazes trails, inspires awe and commands attention. But under such immense scrutiny, when the CEO slips, the rest of the world takes notice.
The consensus among investment bankers and many traders is that gold prices will continue to climb in 2012.
Avenger Controller has decided to dump Ocean Marketing, the company's PR firm, after an inappropriate dispute with a customer went viral after it was posted in on Penny Arcade.
Paul Christoforo, a rep for Ocean Marketing, got into an inappropriate dispute with a customer, which was posted in full on Penny Arcade. The PR disaster has since gone viral, and Christoforo has asked Penny Arcade to Please make it stop.
A rare bird known as the Asian hooded crane most prevalent in Southeast Asia took a wrong turn according to conservation experts and made its way into the U.S., specifically Tennessee.
Workers at an LG Display factory in eastern China have gone on strike, halting some production, the company said on Wednesday, in the latest action by China's increasingly assertive workforce.
The 153 members of the World Trade Organization agree on two things: We're in a hole. And we must keep digging.
Gold fell on Wednesday, tracking industrial metals and equities lower, as concerns about global economic growth and Iran's threat to stop the flow of oil kept investors on the sidelines.
China's economy has surfed for years on a crest of hefty capital inflows, but the tide that brought gains in money supply is turning as global growth slows.
A herd of Siberian tigers chased and snatched away live chicken fed to them from a tourist safari bus at the Siberian Tiger Forest Park in Harbin, China on Tuesday.
Asian shares fell on Wednesday in low volume with many market players away for year-end holidays, while oil held on to the previous day's gains on concerns about possible supply disruptions after Iran threatened to stop the flow of oil from the Gulf.
The Asus Transformer Prime, which is considered as the most awaited Android tablet offering, has apparently posted a new record for Honeycomb powered tablets.
The U.S. Treasury again shied away from labeling China a currency manipulator on Tuesday, but it rapped the country for not moving fast enough on exchange rate reforms.
Paul Christoforo, a PR rep from Ocean Marketing, is under fire after an incendiary e-mail exchange between he and a customer was posted on Penny Arcade and subsequently went viral.
Arriving in Indonesia just a little over a decade ago, Belgium chocolatier Thierry Detournay was dismayed at the lack of quality chocolate on offer in the world's third-largest cocoa producer.
In what will be the Afghanistan's first international project in a decade, officials in Kabul approved an oil exploration deal with China's state-owned National Petroleum Corporation (CNCP).
China launched Beidou on Tuesday, which is the country's response to the U.S. GPS platform. The satellite navigation system will help China become more independent, in addition to providing the country with location-based needs.
China will begin work on the world's highest airport next year in Tibet's Nagqu county.
Chinese dissident Chen Xi has become the second dissident in four days to be jailed for inciting subversions through online essays; he was given a 10-year jail sentence by a Chinese court in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province.
Matthew McConaughey proposed to Camila Alves on Christmas Day, tweeting a cute picture of the longtime couple as they kissed by the Christmas tree. But who, exactly, is McCaughey's fiance? Is it true her mother doesn't approve of McConaughey? Here are five things to know about Camila Alves, from the couple's past to Alves' designer label and modeling career.
A subsidiary of Shanghai Construction Group Co. Ltd. will acquire gold mining assets in Eritrea, according to a company announcement.
China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, the nation's biggest dairy firm, said it had destroyed milk found to be contaminated with a cancer-causing substance, the latest food safety problem to hit the country's dairy industry.
