Shedding weight is as good as gold under an unusual slim-down initiative in Dubai over growing concerns about rising obesity levels in the wealthy Gulf city-state. Municipal officials are offering a gram of gold — worth about $45 at current prices …

Fred Proctor was principal at Groves High School in the affluent Detroit suburb of Birmingham for a dozen years before taking early retirement at age fifty-six last month. … He told me they got a similar result when they privatized bus service a few …

Woods is also the world's wealthiest athlete who is still active in his sport, more affluent than other top-earning athletes such as Swiss tennis player Roger Federer (US$180 million) and American NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant (US$220 million), …

India's increasingly affluent middle class, currently estimated at 250 million, is expected to reach 400 million by 2020. Unlike other developing nations, over 30% of middle class income is spent on food and beverages. Walnuts are an ideal complement …

He also has a chain of gyms, a sports health clinic and a six-storey building which houses a Rio de Janeiro university, as well as a nightclub in Rio's most affluent neighbourhood, Leblon. If that isn't enough, he owns millions of pounds worth of real …

CUSTOMERS. Retailers watch out for consumption and lifestyle trends of Filipino workers in outsourcing companies. File photo by AFP. MANILA, Philippines – With 1.3 million people employed in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, the …

The New York Times was once considered the nation's newspaper of record – and deservedly so. Of late, it is a far cry from the days when the legendary A.M. Rosenthal supervised the editorial page, which, to be sure, leaned to the left, but was …

Hyatt Hotels Corporation has launched a global philanthropy program called “Ready to Thrive” that will focus on literacy and career development. As a longstanding labor dispute between unionized employees and Hyatt Hotels Corporation reached a …

It's a question pertaining to philanthropy and those groups which rely on it; the nation's vital $300 billion in annual charitable giving is fueled in no small part by the tax deduction for charitable giving. With this as backdrop, I recently engaged …