Jobless rate down in September for Taiwan

(Taiwan Today) - Taiwan’s unemployment rate dropped 0.07 of a percentage point year on year to 3.89 percent in September, the lowest in 15 years for the month, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics Oct.…

SA students: Zuma freezes tuition fees amid protests

(BBC) - South African President Jacob Zuma has ruled out any increases in university tuition fees for next year after more than a week of protests by students. They have been the biggest student protests to hit the country since apartheid…

Hillary Clinton just had the best 10 days of her campaign

(The Washington Post) - Hillary Clinton has struggled as a candidate -- to put it kindly -- since she formally entered the presidential race in the spring. She's been guarded, wooden and slow to adapt to changing circumstances. Her allies…

Donald Trump moving in on Bush, Rubio turf in Florida

(AP) - MIAMI — Floridians know two of the Republicans presidential candidates very well: Jeb Bush led the state as a two-term governor and Marco Rubio has been a senator since 2011. Nonetheless, Donald Trump is outpacing both of the…

Maldives arrests vice president over plot to kill president

(AFP) - Maldivian authorities on Saturday arrested the nation's Vice President Ahmed Adeeb over an alleged plot to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen, who escaped death after his boat was hit by a bomb last month, the home minister said.…

Rationale behind VAT Removal

(ZIZ News) – When Nevis’ Premier, Hon. Vance Amory was in ZIZ's Radio Studio this week, he suggested that the rationale behind the Government’s decision to remove Value Added Tax or VAT from food, medicine and funeral expenses was simple.…

Cayman Islands opposition leader alleges political conspiracy

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (CNS) -- The Cayman Islands opposition leader has alleged that a deliberate conspiracy between the former governor, Duncan Taylor, and the police commissioner, David Baines, was entirely politically motivated and…