Stanchart, CDC sign $100m agreement

CDC Group has signed a 100 million US dollars risk participation agreement with Standard Chartered Bank, to help boost trade finance for businesses in Africa and South Asia. A joint statement issued in Dar es Salaam shows the agreement will help ...

CDC Group, the emerging markets investor backed by the U.K. Government, has appointed a new director to lead its Africa fund-of-funds team as the firm looks to maintain its investor arm while building a global direct investment team. CDC, formed in ...

CLARK FREEPORT - A group of Aetas clashed yesterday morning with security authorities of the Clark Development Corp. (CDC) amid conflict on a hollow block making facility the tribal folk built at the Sacobia River here. Aeta leader Robert Serrano ...

According to the statistics compiled by Taiwan CDC, there were 1,900 new cases of TB in New Taipei City in 2012, a 20% decrease compared to 2005. However, senior citizens over the age of 65 account for more than 40% of new TB cases. Taiwan CDC and ...

A request to add fluoride to the City of Meadville's municipal water system will be on the agenda Monday night when Meadville Area Water Authority gathers for its monthly meeting, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the authority's administrative ...

What are the biggest health problems in the U.S.? It depends on whom you ask. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would put heart disease at the top of the list, since it's the leading cause of death in the nation. If we looked to ...

The May 2 editorial in Pennsylvania's Scranton Times Tribune, saidit all: "Perdition just a vote away." The plan by Governor Tom Corbett to end the state's monopoly on wine and spirits sales has triggered hellish prognostications from a ...

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A racism watchdog group in France announced Friday it will file a legal suit against a state-owned bank over its role in the slave trade in Haiti even as President François Hollande ruled out reparations to the former Caribbean colony. One of ...