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Cina
Eyes on Korea-China FTA meeting amid THAAD tension
One day before South Korea and China are scheduled to hold the first meeting of the free trade agreement joint committee
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USA
Foreign exchange fluctuations widen this year: BOK
Jitters in the financial markets, sparked by the US presidential election in November, have recently abated but foreign
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USA
For failing to divest, Americans say Trump has failed ethics test
The director of the US Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, has criticised president-elect Donald Trump’s plan to hand over the control of his business empire to his sons before his inauguration on January 20. The plan does not match the standards of US presidents over the last 40 years, ...
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Nigeria
#OccupyCBN is hired to frustrate our forex policy, CBN says
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Central Bank of Nigeria on Wednesday night said some paid groups are being hired by certain interests to frustrate its flexible foreign exchange policy. The apex bank in a statement issued by its Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, described one of the groups ...
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Taiwan Nigeria
Taiwan protests Nigeria’s closure of its Abuja trade office
Taiwan protested Thursday after Nigeria asked it to shut down its trade office in the capital, in what it said was an attempt by Beijing to push it out of Africa’s largest economy. The island’s foreign ministry said Nigeria had asked Taiwan to move its trade office out of the ...
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USA Kuwait
US soldier commits suicide at Kuwait base
An American soldier stationed in Kuwait shot and killed himself on Thursday at a US military base in the oil-rich Gulf state, the interior ministry said. The ministry said in a statement on its Twitter account that the soldier, whose name was not given, used his personal gun to kill ...
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Brasile
Renova negocia venda de usinas eólicas à AES
A Renova Energia deve anunciar nos próximos dias que chegou a um acordo de exclusividade para vender o complexo eólico Alto Sertão II, na Bahia, para a AES Brasil
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Brasile
Com Comitê Organizador ativo, dívidas da Copa de 2014 podem atingir R$ 1 bi
Disputada em 2014, a Copa do Mundo no Brasil ainda não acabou fora de campo. Pendências financeiras e nos tribunais referentes ao Mundial podem chegar a R$ 1 bilhão e, por causa disso, o Comitê Organizador Local (COL) ainda está funcionando. O órgão, presidido por Marco Polo Del Nero, também ...
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Brasile
Apenas 16 mil vagas foram criadas em prisões com verba federal em 10 anos
De 2007 a 2016, apenas 16.534 vagas foram criadas com recursos do governo federal em presídios do País, segundo levantamento do Estado com base em relatórios do Ministério da Justiça. Se mantiver a taxa anual de criação de 1 650 vagas (4,5 por dia) dos dez anos, o Brasil precisará ...
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Nigeria
NDDC Denies Alleged Diversion Of N120bn
The Niger Development Commission (NDDC) has denied allegation that it diverted N120 billion to sponsor a major political party in recent elections in Edo and Rivers. A statement issued by NDDC’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Mr Chijioke Amu-Nnadi, on Thursday in Port Harcourt, said the allegation was made by the ...