Zorena Jantze THE Governor of the Bank of Namibia, Johannes !Gawaxab, has said that amendments made to the Banking Institutions Bill, which will regulate foreign ownership of banks, aim to ensure that Namibians have better access to credit. Foreign-owned banking institutions currently make credit decisions outside Namibia, resulting in lower credit extended to Namibian households...
Virgin Galactic, the company founded by UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, has successfully completed its first commercial flight to the edge of space. Al Jazeera reports that two Italian air force officers and an aerospace engineer from the National Research Council of Italy joined a Virgin Galactic instructor and the spaceplane’s two pilots on a suborbital ride...
In impoverished communities, especially those in the global south, women are often forced to resort to extremes to feed their families. While commercial surrogacy, the payment for carrying a child, is illegal in most countries, in the few where it is legal, the controversial industry is booming. Some nations do, however, allow for altruistic surrogacy....