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Giappone
Airbnb’s ‘master of disaster’ comes to Tokyo as regulations loom
Airbnb Inc. has gone on a charm offensive in Japan, hoping to drum up support as regulators debate whether to clamp down on the startup’s rapidly expanding operations. The world’s third-most valuable private startup dispatched high-powered lawyer and political strategist Chris Lehane to lay out how it can buoy a ...
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Panama
Panamá es líder receptor de Inversión Extranjera en Centroamérica
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe proyectó que la Inversión Extranjera Directa (IED) del año 2016 se mantendrá en niveles inferiores a los alcanzados en los últimos años y se espera que disminuya otro 8%.
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USA
Alcohol, Guns and Golf: The Long History of Blue Laws in New York
With the Legislature and the governor agreeing to earlier Sunday sales of alcohol at restaurants and bars, another vestige of Puritan-imposed morality falls.
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Algeria
Algeria: Benefits Planned By Investment Bill Will Not Affect Public Treasury, Assures Bouchouareb
[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers -The incentives and tax exemptions granted to investors in the bill on investment promotion, debated in the Lower House, seek wealth generation and job creation, Minister of Industry and Mines Abdessalam Bouchouareb said Tuesday.
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Kenya
East Africa: Tanzania and Kenya Nod to Key Regional Trade Bill
[Citizen] Arusha -In an apparent political will to spur intraregional trade, Tanzania and Kenya have assented to the East African Community (EAC) Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade Bill, 2015.
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USA Nigeria
Nigeria: Foreign Investors Float U.S.$2 Billion Infrastructure Fund in Nigeria
[Vanguard] A group of foreign investors, led by Pecora Capital LLC of United States, has launched a $2 billion Nigeria Infrastructure Fund for investment in key projects in the country.
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Egitto Etiopia
Shukri Discusses Islands Agreement, Ethiopia Dam and Terrorism
[Aswat Masriya] Cairo -Egypt's foreign minister said on Tuesday that the future of the maritime border demarcation agreement signed with Saudi Arabia is dependent on the parliament's decision after its review.
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USA
Potential Iranian deal for airliners thrusts Boeing into risky political debate
The aerospace giant is no stranger to Washington turbulence, with its key role in the fight over the Export-Import Bank, a backer of the company’s sales abroad.
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USA
Hedge fund manager charged with reaping $32 million profit from Washington-style insider trading scheme
Law enforcement officials allege a former FDA official used his connections to get confidential information about drug approvals.
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Argentina
‘Statistical emergency’ ends in Argentina
Credible inflation data represent step to normalisation of economy under Macri