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Giappone Taiwan
Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ to set new credit line for Sharp: sources
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) decided Monday to set a new credit line for Sharp Corp., sources familiar with the matter said, as the struggling electronics maker seeks to sign a takeover deal with Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Sharp’s other major creditor bank, Mizuho Bank, is also ...
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Giappone
ANA opens Haneda-Miyakojima route
All Nippon Airways has started direct flights between Tokyo’s Haneda airport and Miyakojima, an island in Okinawa Prefecture. The unit of ANA Holdings Inc. aims to attract repeat visitors to Okinawa by offering one round-trip flight per day between Haneda and the island, which is popular among such tourists. On ...
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Giappone
Activist investor Loeb warns Seven & I on nepotism deciding CEO
Third Point LLC’s billionaire founder Daniel Loeb has targeted Seven & I Holdings Co. for management succession planning criticism, warning the grocery and retail group against letting nepotism determine its next chief executive officer. Seven & I CEO Toshifumi Suzuki, 83, is experiencing chronic health problems and investors fear he ...
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Giappone
Poll finds only 24% of top firms plan to expand new grad recruitment in 2017
Nearly a quarter of major firms in Japan that have set hiring plans for fiscal 2017 intend to recruit more new graduates than in fiscal 2016, but the percentage fell short of the previous year’s figure, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. Of the 110 companies surveyed from Feb. 23 ...
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Giappone
Dollar tops ¥113.50 in Tokyo on revised U.S. GDP
The dollar rose above ¥113.50 in Tokyo trading on Monday, backed by an upward revision in the U.S. growth rate for October-December. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.53-54, up from ¥113.06-07 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1164-1165, little changed from $1.1162-1163, and at ¥126.76-77, ...
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Giappone
‘Womenomics’ has to wait in line as tenure obstructs Abe’s goal
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sought to have women hold 30 percent of supervisory positions in all fields by the time Tokyo hosts the Olympics in 2020. But as of now, his own government is at least 15 years behind schedule. Women fill just 6.2 percent of junior management jobs ...
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Kuwait
Kuwait Finance House gets offer for Aref affiliate from investors
Aref is a diversified investment firm which is 53 percent owned by KFH and has share capital of $400 million
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Australia
AFP to investigate Defence Housing
Finance Department refers matter concerning Defence Housing Australia to federal police.
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Australia Regno Unito
Brits prepare for DIY invasion
UK retailer Kingfisher has sent agents to Australia to probe the business model of looming rival Bunnings.
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Brasile Portogallo Uruguay El Salvador
Gerson Martínez: “Hay que cambiar las cosas y sé lo que hay que hacer”
Es poeta, fue comandante de las FPL, es dirigente histórico del FMLN y ministro de Obras Públicas en los dos periodos presidenciales comandados por su partido. Diseñó los planes de gobierno tanto en 2009 como en 2014. Es escurridizo para responder preguntas directas y hábil para evitar pronunciar nombres que ...