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Thailandia
SET opens up 0.42 to 1,582.94
Thai stocks opened up 0.03% at the start of trade this morning.
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Giappone
Japan union confederation to call for hikes in base pay
Rikio Kozu, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), has stressed that the labor side will push for hikes in regular monthly wages in this year’s shunto annual wage negotiations. While Japan’s biggest business lobby, the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), has said it will increase wages “on an annual ...
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Giappone
Reactor renaissance stymied by costly delays, strict safety regimens
Costly delays, growing complexity and new safety requirements in the wake of the three meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 plant are conspiring to thwart a new age of nuclear reactor construction. So-called generation III+ reactors were supposed to have simpler designs and safety features to avoid the kind of ...
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USA Giappone
Trump advisers’ untested tax-credit plan for infrastructure risky, seen implying tolls, higher levies
President Donald Trump has promised to revitalize America’s aging roads, bridges, railways and airports, but a plan put forward by his economic advisers relies on a transportation financing scheme that hasn’t been tried before and comes with significant risks. The plan was set out just before the election by billionaire ...
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Giappone
Twitter widens crackdown against hate, abuse in never-ending ‘whack-a-mole’ fight
Twitter announced Tuesday that it is expanding efforts to protect its users from abuse and harassment, the latest milestone in a broader, growing corporate campaign to crack down on online hate. The social media giant said it has begun identifying people who have been banned for abusive behavior and it ...
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Giappone Albania
Fiery 2013 North Dakota oil train crash laid to faulty axle on another derailed train
A defective axle broke and caused a 2013 train derailment that led to a series of explosions just a quarter-mile outside a small North Dakota town, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. A BNSF train carrying soybeans derailed and was struck by one carrying oil, setting off explosions near ...
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Giappone
On Trump orders, Army to allow completion of Dakota Access pipeline as judge doubts protesters will prevail
The Army said Tuesday that it will allow the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion of the disputed four-state project. However, construction could still be delayed because the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which has led ...
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Giappone
Hon Hai bids for struggling Toshiba’s flash memory unit
Taiwanese contract electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has bid to invest in the flash memory division of struggling Japanese electronics and machinery giant Toshiba Corp., it was learned Tuesday. The move by Hon Hai comes after the company, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, acquired Japanese electronics maker ...
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Giappone
GPIF will consider disclosing investment info by country, chief says
Norihiro Takahashi, president of the Government Pension Investment Fund, said Tuesday that the Japanese public pension management body will consider disclosing the amounts of its infrastructure investment by country and region. He made the remark at a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives in response to ...
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USA Giappone
Japan racked up second-largest trade deficit with U.S. in 2016
The U.S. goods trade deficit with Japan totaled $68.94 billion in 2016, outranking Germany for the second-largest figure among countries with which the United States generated a trade deficit, government data showed Tuesday. Although the deficit with Japan was nearly flat from the 2015 level, U.S. President Donald Trump, given ...