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Financial Times journalists mull strike over Nikkei-proposed pension review
Journalists at the Financial Times are considering going on strike in protest against a corporate pension system review proposed by Japan’s Nikkei Inc., which has announced its acquisition of the economic daily. The Times of London reported in its online edition Wednesday that the National Union of Journalists is sending ...
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Toshiba U.S. unit Westinghouse books $1.3 billion impairment loss
In a potential sign of additional losses at embattled machinery giant Toshiba Corp., U.S. nuclear plant builder Westinghouse Electric Co., a Toshiba unit, wrote down assets by a total of $1.3 billion in fiscal 2012-2013, it was learned Thursday. The parent company has not reflected the losses in its consolidated ...
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Refiners Idemitsu, Showa Shell agree to merge as fuel consumption shrinks
Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. have agreed to merge on an equal footing, they said Thursday, in a move that could trigger realignment in Japan’s highly competitive refinery industry. The second- and fifth-largest Japanese oil distributors, which had announced plans for a merger in July, will integrate ...
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Profit-taking ends Nikkei’s seven-session winning streak
The benchmark Nikkei average snapped its seven-session winning streak on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, pressured by profit-taking. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 100.86 points, or 0.51 percent, to end at 19,596.91. On Thursday, the key market gauge climbed 6.38 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues dropped 7.74 ...
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Abe to tout economic measures at G-20 talks
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will promote the government’s measures to prop up the flagging economy, including overdue projects pushing structural reforms, at the G-20 meeting over the weekend, Japanese officials said. He will also explain his intention to enhance aid in the child-rearing and social security sectors. Before his departure ...
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NSA says it ‘usually’ discloses software vulnerabilities
The U.S. National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about software vulnerabilities and leaves U.S. companies open to cyberattacks, said last week that it tells U.S. technology firms about the most serious flaws it finds more than 90 percent of the time. The reassurances may be ...
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Microsoft agrees to store customer data in privacy-minded Germany
U.S. tech giant Microsoft is setting up centers to keep customer data in Germany, following a series of U.S. surveillance scandals that have alarmed Europeans. Deutsche Telekom will serve as “custodian” for Microsoft’s cloud-based services in Germany and keep data on its home turf, the companies said in separate statements ...
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Australia welcomes Indonesia’s plans to join TPP
Visiting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Thursday that his government will back Indonesia’s intention to join the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership trade pact. “We would welcome Indonesia becoming a part of the TPP,” Turnbull told Jokowi when the two leaders visited a market ...
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$200m Kings College Hospital London-linked project planned for Dubai
Dubai Investments says to invest in multi-disciplinary hospital and several day care clinics linked to world famous healthcare brand
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Dubai private sector growth grinds to slowest since Feb 2010
New report says weakness in travel and tourism activity weighed on the whole economy index in October