Years of excessive optimism and financial innovation led to record household debt and a banking crisis in Denmark in the naughts. Conditions are ripening again for a similarly heady combination, according to the countrys financial watchdog. The Financial Supervisory Authority laid out today the strategy that will guide its work until 2020. Denmarks lenders are now…
Western Australia will not join the other states and allow pokies in pubs but the state government is divided on whether to allow an expansion of other gambling products as part of its sale of the TAB. Both Premier Colin Barnett and Racing and Gaming Minister Colin Holt firmly ruled out allowing pokies to be…
In late 2013, Tourism Australia launched a new international campaign with the theme Restaurant Australia by focusing on the countrys food and wine industries to target global foodies and wine connoisseurs. There could be less good restaurants after insolvency group Ferrier Hodgson placed under receivership one of the biggest hospitality groups in Australian with about…
Even in its relative infancy, 3D printing has created an enormous list of possibilities: dental aligners to straighten your teeth, unique toys for your children, inexpensive custom prosthetics for people with limb deficiencies, and restoring lost or destroyed cultural artifacts. It can also be used to create untraceable firearms and an endless supply of copyright…
SEOUL, June 29 (Xinhua) — Confidence among South Korean businesses stayed low this month on worries about the ongoing restructuring in shipbuilders and shipping firms, central bank data showed on Wednesday. The business sentiment index (BSI) for manufacturers stood at 71 in June, unchanged from the previous month, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK).…