Dividends matter and British firms have a strong track record of paying them. The top ten provide annual income that far ...

Historically the Dutch have been experts in sea trade. In 1602, the United East India Company of the Netherlands was formed and given permission by the Dutch government to trade in the East Indies ...

Economist Robert Shiller describes bubbles as social epidemics – viral stories that spread irrational optimism until reality ...

One of the last uses of Indian yellow, reportedly, was by Van Gogh in The Starry Night (1889). The famous yellow moon held within a cluster of radiant orbs was a blend of zinc yellow and Indian yellow ...

De Orta also tells stories, for example about the Persian opium enthusiast he met when serving as a physician at the court of ...

with many from the coastal regions of southern Guangdong province and eastern Fujian province working for the Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia. After the Dutch sailors’ strike of 1911, many ...

the very moment after they incorporated the Dutch East India Trading Company as mentioned above. From 1602 to 1706, a hundred years later, the corruption builds up, as the reigning Dutch Governor ...

This is the reason, which led the Dutch, to incorporate the Dutch East India Trading Company on the 20th of March 1602; and soon afterwards, within a month and ten days; on the 2nd of May 1602, the ...

Many of the answers to these questions can be found in the 17th century — the time of the Dutch East India Company, violent colonisation and Abel Tasman (you may know this as the Dutch Golden Age, but ...

India's women's hockey team gains an edge with Dutch legend Taeke Taekema as a short-term consultant for dragflicking. Taekema's seven-day camp in February focused on refining techniques and ...

EAST FUJI: The 6th edition of the India-Japan joint military exercise ... with the participation of troops expanded to a company-strength level for the first time since the inception of the ...