A department head at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Business was named dean of the College of Business at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Lance Nail, chairman of the business school’s department of finance, economics and quantitative methods, has taken the top spot at Southern Miss and will begin July 1.
Nail served as [...]

As Rosemount Australian Fashion Week enters its teens the event is now a destination for international buyers.
On Monday more than 100 fashion designers from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and India will begin showing their wares at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week’s spring-summer 2008 collections. In the front rows, next to the media and celebrities, local and [...]

The report by the British-based Janes Information Group ranked Afghanistan as the worlds third most-unstable country after the Gaza Strip and WestBank, and Somalia.
By contrast, Iraq was at No 22 where it appeared among several African countries including Niger, Nigeria, Burundi and Equatorial Guinea.
The report, titled Janes Country Risk Ratings, was the first of its [...]

A Southland Times home loan affordability report prepared by interest.co.nz shows the median house price was $201,000, down from $225,000 in January.
At the same time, the median house price had increased 21.8 percent from $165,000 at the same time last year.
Interest.co.nz managing editor Bernard Hickey said the drop in house prices in Southland came after [...]