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China’s insurance regulator wants more information on Ping An sale
China's insurance regulator announced it had asked insurer Ping An for more information about the proposed sale of a stake in the company held...
AIR Worldwide : multiple bushfires burn more than 60,000 hectares across Tasmania
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, late last week, wildfires exacerbated by hot, dry, and windy conditions spread across parts of southern Tasmania....
Belgian bank KBC pulls out of Slovenia’s largest bank NLB
Bailed-out Belgian banking and insurance company KBC is pulling out of Slovenia's Nova Ljubljanska Banka (NLB) and will sell its 22-percent stake back to...
Pakistan : insurance for businessmen
Pakistan is offering to insure foreign businessmen to attract overseas investment to a country where thousands have been killed by Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence,...
France : report recommends to legalise ‘accelerated deaths’
France should allow doctors to "accelerate the coming of death" for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday.
Hollande referred the...
France : ban on chemical BPA in food packaging
The French parliament voted Thursday to ban the use of bisphenol A, a chemical thought to have a toxic effect on the brain and...
AIR Worldwide : little damage reported from Japan 7.3 magnitude earthquake
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on December 7 2012, 270 kilometers...
China : PICC insurance company set for Hong Kong IPO
Chinese insurer PICC will make its trading debut in Hong Kong Friday after raising a lower-than-expected $3.1 billion from the city's biggest share sale...
AIA : takeover of Aviva’s Sri Lanka unit finalised
Asian insurance giant AIA said Wednesday it had completed the takeover of Sri Lankan insurer Aviva NDB Insurance for $109 million, further increasing its...
Superbugs : genome mapping may stop superbug deaths
Genome mapping could prove key in preventing superbugs in hospitals, an Australian researcher said Friday, urging its use to prevent countless deaths from antibiotic-resistant...
Nestle and Chinese pharma group Chi-Med team up to create Nutrition Science Partners
The world's biggest food group Nestle is moving into traditional Chinese medicine by joining forces with Chinese pharma group Chi-Med, the Swiss group said...
Spain : patients rage at hospital cuts
Ever since her father had his heart attack years ago, 76-year-old Maria has been fiercely devoted to Spain's public hospitals. Now that authorities are planning...
Spain : Madrid hospitals strike against crisis cuts
Doctors and staff at public hospitals in Madrid launched a strike Monday complaining that authorities plan to privatise health services to save money in...
AIR Worldwide : updates loss estimates for post-tropical Cyclone Sandy
Since Sandy made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone on October 29, 2012, in southern New Jersey, catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has been analyzing...
US : jobless claims plunge in storm aftermath
New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits plunged more than expected last week, but the data is still being skewed by Superstorm Sandy, the...
Bayer : rules out increasing bid for Schiff Nutrition
German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer withdrew from a battle to buy US-based Schiff Nutrition International on Tuesday, ruling out an increase to its...
HSBC : in talks to sell stake in Chinese insurer
Banking giant HSBC said Monday it was in talks to sell its stake in China's Ping An Insurance Group, the country's second-largest life insurer...
UN : access to contraception could save $5.7 billon
The world economy would be boosted by billions of dollars if all women had access to contraception, the United Nations said on Wednesday in...
France : surgeons on strike over pay limits
French surgeons began on Monday an open-ended strike to protest against perceived threats to their freedom and pay.
The protest has been called by 30...
Spain : health unrest with pharmacy strikes over unpaid bills
Hundreds of pharmacies closed in eastern Spain on Monday in a strike to demand the government step in because indebted regional authorities cannot pay...
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