Prominent Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais was set to stand trial this week on nine counts of defamation stemming from his book Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola Read More...

Wedding resource site The Knot published its annual Real Weddings Study this week and it makes for some fascinating reading, as well as providing some good news for jewelers. Read More...

Is the industry at long last getting its act together and creating an effective organization that will promote the diamond sector and act as a unified body? Read More...

There was an interesting announcement this week from LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton in which the luxury brand announced... Read More...

In a story that seems to be repeating itself on a regular basis, the specter of undisclosed lab-grown diamonds has struck again. Read More...

Valentine’s Day has come and gone and with it, the slew of lovey-dovey pink hearts and candy stories that appeared in the media... Read More...

Hallelujah! The gem-quality synthetic diamond producers have finally acted in unison by creating a strong joint voice on the challenging issues they face; or so it seems… Read More...

Bloomberg.com recently ran an interview with Juan-Carlos Torres, the CEO of Vacheron Constantin. In the article, Torres said that his company... Read More...

The president of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA), Maxim Shkadov, is clearly in pain... Read More...

As a confirmed logophile or word lover, I really enjoy all those word-of-the-year lists that come out during the holiday season. The Oxford Dictionary word of the year for 2014, for example, was vape, which means, “to inhale and exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device.” Read More...