{"id":11931,"date":"2016-09-20T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=11931"},"modified":"2016-09-20T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:04:24","slug":"billionaire-soros-to-invest-500-million-dollars-to-help-migrants-refugees-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/billionaire-soros-to-invest-500-million-dollars-to-help-migrants-refugees-wsj.html","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Soros to invest 500 million dollars to help migrants, refugees: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Billionaire Soros to invest $500 million to help migrants, refugees: WSJ<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>Billionaire Soros to invest $500 million to help migrants, refugees: WSJ<\/strong> : Billionaire investor George Soros said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that he would invest $500 million to meet the needs of migrants and refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The investment comes in response to the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;Call to Action&#8221; initiative, asking U.S. companies to help ease the migrant crisis. (on.wsj.com\/2cE0JnK)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Soros, founder of the Open Society Foundations, also said he plans to work closely with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Rescue Committee to guide his investments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">This comes a day after the ceasefire between the U.S. and Russia in Syria ended, after a Syrian or Russian aircraft attacked an aid convoy near Aleppo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Open Society Foundations was not immediately available for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">(Reporting by Parikshit Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source : http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-europe-migrants-soros-idUSKCN11Q0WX<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/billionaire-soros-to-invest-500-million-dollars-to-help-migrants-refugees-wsj.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Soros to invest $500 million to help migrants, refugees: WSJ Billionaire Soros to invest $500 million to help migrants, refugees: WSJ : Billionaire investor George Soros said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that he would invest $500 million to meet the needs of migrants and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[6028,6984,3252,6981,6983,6982,411,559,3299],"class_list":["post-11931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-corporate-events","tag-financials-legacy","tag-general-news","tag-george-soros","tag-middle-east","tag-migrants","tag-syria","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}