Japan's Fukuoka city mayor teams up with Yunus
From left: Hiroshi Yoshida, mayor of Fukuoka City, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, Sususu Ishihara, chairman of Kyushu Railway Company, and Setuo Arikawa, president of Kyushu University, pose after signing a joint declara...
Mayor of Fukuoka City Hiroshi Yoshida, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, Sususu Ishihara,Chairman, Kyushu Railway Company, and Setuo Arikawa, President of Kyushu University after signing the Joint Declaration for the launch of the Social Business Hub in Asia in F...
Mashiur Rahaman Japanese fashion group 'Fast Retailing' is going to set up a joint venture in Bangladesh to create a textiles company, investing some US$0.1 million in October. The operator of the Uniqlo casual-clothing chain decided to form the venture with Gra...
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Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, will work with microfinance organization Grameen Bank to sell affordable clothing in Bangladesh, executives of the two entities said Tuesday.
Fast Retailing will set up a joint venture in Oct...
Japan's clothing retail chain to help set up textile unit in Bangladesh
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (L) and Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing, attend a press conference in Tokyo yesterday. Japan's casual clothing brand Uniqlo and Yunus said they would cr...
(AFP)
TOKYO - Japan's casual clothing brand Uniqlo and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Tuesday they would create a textiles company in Bangladesh to help poor women gain financial independence.
Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, plans to invest some 10...
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Professor Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Glasgow signed a historic agreement of mutual cooperation on the 4th of July. The agreement whose legal terms were defined in a memorandum of understandi...
"Antes del Nobel no me oÃan. Ahora me basta con susurrar"
ARIADNA TRILLAS 03/07/2010
Es complicado colarse en la agenda de un premio Nobel de la Paz de paso por España, de modo que un almuerzo imposible -tiene una cita con la reina SofÃa, el prÃncipe ...
From left, Pamela Gillies, vice chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland; Prof Muhammad Yunus and former British premier Gordon Brown during the inauguration of Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at the university on July 5. Photo: Lamiya Morsh...
An Asian bank for low-income women is out to teach Wall Street a lesson.
Rana Foroohar
It's pretty safe to say that three years ago no one could have predicted that one of the few financial institutions to be opening new branches and expanding lending in America would...
