As prosecutors try to prove the billionaire conspired to funnel millions of dollars to a confidante of President Park Geun-hye to help secure control of the world’s largest smartphone maker, on Thusday, the  trial of Samsung  Electronic Co. vice chairman Jay Y. Lee started   An...

A research by one of the world’s largest plastic card companies, MasterCard, has shown that even though conditions can be discouraging, some of the highest rates of female entrepreneurs can be seen in lower-income countries such as Uganda and Bangladesh.   While in contrast and opposing to...

A day after the president-elect hinted for the second time in a month at a reset of U.S.-China relations, China’s foreign ministry urged Donald Trump to recognize the “high sensitivity” with which it views Taiwan and said its One-China policy isn’t negotiable.   After assessing the progress...

A settlement deal that would provide more than $277 million to victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme was reached between the court-appointed trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's firm and the family of late Beverly Hills money manager Stanley Chais. The deal was reached on Friday, Bernard Madoff's firm...

A whistle blower in the US has been awarded more than $22 million from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program. Making the announcement the executive's lawyer said that the whistle blower, a former Monsanto Co executive, had alerted the agency about the ongoing improprieties...

A whistle blower in the US has been awarded more than $22 million from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program. Making the announcement the executive's lawyer said that the whistle blower, a former Monsanto Co executive, had alerted the agency about the ongoing improprieties...

Investigations into a cyber attack in Austrian aerospace parts maker FACC have led the investigators to arrest a man from China. The cyber attack had cost the firm 42 million euros ($47.39 million), Austrian police said on Friday.   In a kind of scam that is known as a "fake president...

There has been a change of heart for Stefan Thomas who introduced millions of people to bitcoin.   He wrote in an essay titled “ The Subtle Tyranny of Blockchian” that blockchain, the ledger software that makes the digital currency possible, is too rigid to gain wide adoption. A wide range...

In a sign investigators remains focused on building cases despite a court ruling that could curtail such prosecutions, the FBI in New York City has undisclosed probes into about 30 suspected insider trading schemes, the agency said.   In recent times there has been a resurgence of insider...

The Brexit referendum has forced British citizens living in other EU countries to reassess the very basics of their existence. And there are about 1.2 million of them.   British passport holders could travel, live and work virtually anywhere in the EU as members of the 28-nation bloc....

The millionaires of Asia are clearly now much richer than their North American counterparts. In the year 2015, there has been a ten percent rise in the wealth of the millionaires of Asia- Pacific region when the combined riches reached a total of $17.4 trillion from their combined value a year...