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SBM details strong financial results alongside major renovation and expansion projects
First-quarter success fuels SBM’s luxury upgrades and ambitious global expansion plans
Read moreFrance tinkers with minimum wage, and other changes from January 1
The minimum wage – otherwise known as SMIC – will rise in France from January 1, 2017, but by a very small amount, from €9.67 to €9.76 an hour. This translates into a monthly take-home salary...
More asylum seekers in 2016
The number of migrants applying for refugee status in France climbed to 90,000 in 2016, the French national press reports. Most of those seeking official status will remain on French territory....
French unemployment falls, but not locally
Unemployment has fallen again in France, for the third month in a row, but not in the Alpes-Maritimes. In the Var, the jobless rate increased slightly in November. In France as a whole, the quarter...
Monaco’s GasLog takes important new direction
A wholly-owned subsidiary of GasLog has entered into a sale and purchase agreement to acquire a twenty percent shareholding in Gastrade S.A., which is licensed to develop an independent natural gas...
Migrant hit by train on Italian border
The fact that the international migrant crisis is still with us at the end of 2016 was tragically underlined on Friday when a refugee in his twenties was killed by a TER train as he walked along the...
Monaco Foodie: Whisky and The Art of Blending Liquid Sunshine
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” It’s a rare thing that draws Mark Twain and Ava Gardner into alignment, but a love of whisky does just that. From tax...
