SFA calls for government loan scheme

Helping Hand to Charity Executives

By: jeremiahhall

Charity watchdogs have a new warning for donors: Your favorite philanthropy may be loaning your money to its own executives. It happens at thousands of charities, big and small. And it poses a dilemma for the philanthropic community. Do these perks, used to attract top leaders, ultimately make the charity stronger, better-run, and thus more ...

16 days ago

If Slovenia can reach the World Cup finals so can Scotland

By: azhar12

In the first three instances you would have found detailed descriptions of the goals that sent the winners to South Africa. In the case of France v Ireland, there is the following summary: "After 180 hard-fought minutes, the fate of both teams was decided by a moment of drama in extra time." True, Fifa's full match report ...

7 days ago

ADB Approves $100 Million Loan to Aid Poverty Reduction in Viet Nam

By: chnarendra

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $100 million loan to Viet Nam to support policy reforms aimed at fostering economic growth and reducing poverty. ADB Board of Directors today approved the loan, in various currencies, from ADB’s concessional Asian Development Fund (ADF). A wide range of policy reforms in the a

about 1 month ago

Ex-OFW couple stretches noodle business

By: ofwjournalism

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO OFW Journalism Consortium     MINGLANILLA, Cebu province—THIS noodle business is going to the dogs –all 20 of them, in fact. Aside from a hobby, the dogs also serve as guardians of the childless couple Susana Jimenez and husband Leonides who learned there is more err, bite, ...

25 days ago