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2016 a wake up call on executive pay

Global investment funds say 2016 should serve as a wake-up call for Australian boards on the issue of executive pay, with some company executives paying themselves too well.

Many unwanted Christmas gifts are passed on to a new recipient.

Unwanted gifts to pile up this Christmas

Despite digging deep and splashing reported $620 million dollars on Christmas gifts, new research by Gumtree shows as many as seven in 10 Australians will be disappointed after tearing aside the wrapping paper this holiday season. 

Gifts put us into a relationship with someone. They're like a maintenance fee for your relationship.

Why we keep buying presents no one needs

Spend much time with economists around this time of year, and you will hear about the dreadful inefficiency of exchanging gifts. But there's a higher logic to the gift economy.

Xi also warned China should avoid the so-called Thucydides Trap, referring to the theory that says a rising power will ...

Xi open to slower growth rate

President Xi Jinping reportedly told party officials that he's no longer wedded to China's 6.5 per cent annual growth target.