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Universal healthcare is within reach

Nearly three years ago China's State Council unveiled its plan to extend healthcare to every Chinese citizen by 2020. The ambitious plan was launched at a time when universal health coverage was building momentum globally. In June 200 [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Alfardan unveils three new cars

Alfardan Automobiles, the importer of BMW Group vehicles in Qatar, has introduced three new BMW Group models in Qatar: the all new BMW 6 Series Coupé, BMW 1 Series and the MINI Coupé. Commenting on the launch of the th [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Bank of America scaling back debit card fees

Bank of America Corp, after receiving heavy public criticism for a planned $5 per-month debit card fee, is likely to give customers more ways to avoid the fee, a person familiar with the bank's plans said Friday. The second largest [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Car tech: The connected car arrives

Automobile technology has become so advanced that today's cars are essentially computers with wheels. So why aren't we using them to surf the Web, communicate with other cars or order food at nearby restaurants? We're well [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

State Bank of India rated lower: Does the Indian care?

Indian villages need banking services badly. They still store their paper money beneath mattresses over there. Now who best to provide banking services to people whose complete yearly turnover in their savings bank totals Rs 10,000 or [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Indian Banks: Healthy, But Precarious

cT he past three months have been tough for Indian banking. High interest rates and threats of a global recession have taken their toll on bank stocks. The NSE banking index fell 15 percent compared with the Nifty’s 11 percent slide [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

US banks lose Senate vote on capping card fees

The legislation - part of a larger financial oversight law - will allow the Federal Reserve to cap the fees. Banks currently charge an average 44 cents per transaction, but the Fed has proposed slashing this to 12 cents. Banks had hope [...]

Posted On : Jun, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Banks cancels thousands of credit cards fearing fraud

The Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, St George, and National Australia Bank have all either blocked or cancelled credit cards following the breach. In a statement this morning, the Commonwealth Bank said it had used SMS, email an [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

ECB to tread carefully with historic rate rise

The European Central Bank is poised to raise interest rates from a record low 1.0% on Thursday and more is likely to follow but, fearful of heaping more pain on the euro zone's stragglers, it will give few clues about when the next m [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Quality health care tops govt agenda: Zardari

President Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday that the provision of quality healthcare to the people especially the under-served and marginalized, is a key element of the social sector agenda of the present government. In a message o [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Federal Reserve Must Face Bank Suit Over Credit Card Fee Rul...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke lost a bid to end a bank lawsuit challenging the legality of forthcoming rules limiting the amount of money the largest U.S. banks can collect for debit card transactions. U.S. District Judge [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Chinese banks average CAR 12.2 pct at end-2010

The core capital adequacy ratio with Chinese banks rose an average 0.9 percentage point to 10.1 percent at the end of last year, CBRC added. According to CBRC rules, top lenders such as Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (60 [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Air India board beefed up, strategic investor on cards

The government has beefed up the board of badly struggling, state-owned carrier, Air India, with the induction of four independent directors with impressive records in their respective fields and is reportedly mulling inviting a strategi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Airlines see scope for expanding cargo capacity

Shubhra Tandon India is in a crisis as it tries to adjust its infrastructure and, even more critically, its cost structure to the realities of today...,” Mr Giovanni Bisignani, Director General and CEO, International Air Transport [...]