When New York City wanted to make the biggest purchase of subway cars in US history in the late 1990s, more than US$3 billion worth, the only companies that were able to bid on the contract were foreign.

BEIRUT: Companies and co-operatives in Lebanon seeking to sell their products abroad under the Fairtrade certified label are debating how that certification process should work.

GOVERNMENT has raised this year's budgetary allocation under the Fertiliser Support Programme (FSP) from K185 billion to K492 billion to allow more small-scale farmers to benefit from the programme.

A bill, authored by Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara, is pending in the House of Representatives titled Magna Carta for the Workers of the Informal Sector which, when enacted, will give Filipinos who belong to the economy of the poor some relief in their effort t

Oil field activity is good business for electrical cooperatives, and it’s growing, said Rick Knick of Sheridan Electric Cooperative at Medicine Lake, Mont.