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Efforts at the Labour Relations Commission to reach agreement between the electricians' union, the TEEU and employers have broken down. The two sides had been hoping to avert a threatened strike by more than 10,000 electricians which is due to begin on Monday. The electricians are seeking pay increases of 11.3%. Electrical contractors say the claim is ridiculous in the current economic climate and have sought a 10% pay cut instead. Earlier, the Chief Executive of the Labour Relations Commission... [read full story]
Awang Adek Hussin, deputy finance minister of Malaysia, speaking on the sidelines of the Islamic Financial Planning and Wealth Management Conference in Kuala Lumpur in November 2009, confirmed that two foreign banks have been...
Oil has not responded proportionately to euro and S&P 500 strength and shown relative weakness when the euro and S&P 500 sag, as they did last week. While the industrial production surge in the West and Asia, Opec compliance...
THE governor of the Banque centrale du Luxembourg, the central bank, Yves Mersch, has called on European banking authorities to familiarize themselves with Islamic banking and stressed that the current needs of Europe's 38...
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - President Traian Basescu led by a slim margin in the first round of Romania's presidential election on Monday and was set to face leftist leader Mircea Geoana in a Dec. 6 run-off, official partial results...
