LOS ANGELES, California – Green Globe Certification is delighted to announce the reopening of the Anantara Bophut Resort & Spa Koh Samui in Bophut, Thailand – an Elite Green Globe Member. After an extensive six months renovation of all rooms, …

The police have been trying to round up people who stole luxury items and recover the lost goods. Items confiscated from vehicles on the suspicion that they were looted sit at many police roadblocks. On Wednesday, the police took possession of four …

“But I also buy goods for myself, for enjoyment,” he said, echoing the sentiments of many of China's wealthier residents who no longer wait to buy luxury goods on trips abroad, where the lack of import duties make them 10 percent to 40 percent cheaper.

Hermès' flagship store on Bond Street in London is embracing the concept of upcycling with a project known as ”Petit h,” which sees factory leftovers and defective inventory turned into completely new creations. The project stems from a Japanese …

Developer Great Gulf Homes' Turtle Creek luxury home tower would be the first such project started since the recession. … Great Gulf is reviving its Dallas building plans at a time when the local economy and real estate market have reached a new zenith.

Toll Bros., the largest U.S. luxury home builder, has room to raise prices on its houses as the real estate market extends its recovery, CEO Douglas Yearley Jr. said. Buyers are purchasing properties "sight unseen" in New York and demand is strong on …

The answer was to devalue the exchange rate. This did not make the country more efficient, but it did make it more competitive in international markets. The price of imports rose and the price of exports fell. It was possible to reduce the trade …

Many of the miners have switched to digging for gold and the armed groups are profiting much more from gold than from the other so-called conflict minerals: tin, tungsten and tantalum, known as the "three T's." One reason for this has been a hike in …

Paulson, who has been betting that gold would rally as a hedge against inflation as central banks flood the global economy with money, has lost 63 percent year-to-date in the PFR Gold Fund, said the person, who was briefed on the returns and asked not …