Jobseekers work on computers Wednesday at the employment training facility, JobTrain, in Menlo Park, Calif. The nation’s unemployment rate climbed to a four-year high of 5.7 percent in July as employers cut 51,000 jobs, dashing the hopes of an influx of

Reader Reynaldo de Guzman e-mailed this writer to say that “I could not disagree more with your assertion that “Aside from the overseas Filipino workers, the informal sector is the real savior of the Philippine economy and they who work in this sector

11 August 2008 JEDDAH: Madinah Knowledge Economic City (KEC), a symbol of Saudi Arabia's pride and an icon of successful diversification of the Kingdom's economy, has geared up to attract investors and joint ventures to the mammoth project.

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- German unemployment , enjoying its longest decline since reunification in 1990, fell at a slower pace in July as the economy cooled.

(AP:NEW YORK) Wall Street was mostly higher Friday after a government employment report showed the nation's employers cut far fewer jobs than expected last month, stirring optimism about the buoyancy of the economy.