New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Foreign exchange earnings from tourism in India surged by 49.3 percent to Rs.8,623 crore in January year-on-year on the back of 9.2 percent growth in the number of tourist arrivals, official data showed Monday.
NEW YORK/LONDON: Foreign exchange turnover slipped in much of the world in tardy 2011, a move analysts attributed to intervention by central banks damping speculation even as hopes for a stronger US economy drove volume up in North America .
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Foreign-exchange trading in North America rose to a record $977 billion a day in October, while slowing in the U.K., Australia and Singapore, according to central bank surveys.
The U.S. State Department is proposing what it calls "significant and controversial" changes to a foreign exchange program that has been exploited by unscrupulous labor brokers and organized criminals in the sex industry, said an internal memo obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Foreign exchange programs in Oxford Community Schools are about to go virtual. The district will soon launch a program allowing students in metro Detroit to enroll in Oxford and take part or every of their classes through a Chinese high school, using computers in a virtual lab connecting them across the world.
After a full day of classes at Lake Shore High School in St. Clair Shores, foreign exchange student Zhou Yukun hopped on a school bus and headed home. But home wasn't with a local family -- it was a dorm built especially for students like him who arrive from faraway lands.
The U.S. State Department is proposing what it calls "significant and controversial" changes to a foreign exchange program that has been exploited by unscrupulous labor brokers and organized criminals in the sex industry, said an internal memo obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
The U.S. State Department plans major changes to a foreign exchange program that has been exploited by unscrupulous labor brokers and organized criminals in the sex industry, according to an internal memo obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
KARACHI : Country’s foreign exchange reserves rose marginally to $16.87 billion in the week ending January 27, boosted by an increase in commercial bank reserves, from $16.80 billion in the previous week, the central bank said on Thursday.