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Thailandia
SET falls 1.22 to 1,552.39 at opening
Thai stocks opened down 0.08% at the start of trade this morning.
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Cina Corea del Sud
Lotte stores caught in the crossfire of THAAD spat
SEOUL/SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities have closed nearly two dozen retail stores of South Korea's Lotte Group following inspections, ramping up pressure on the conglomerate amid a diplomatic stand-off that has cast a chill over business ties between the two nations.
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Giappone
Japan approves changes to century-old sex crime law
The Japanese government on Tuesday took a major step to overhaul century-old sex crime laws as it seeks to impose tougher penalties and make prosecutions easier. The Cabinet approved a bill to revise the 110-year-old law and wants parliament to pass it as quickly as possible, officials said. Victims and ...
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Brasile USA
Brazil’s recession worst in country’s history
Brazil’s recession hit the two year mark, becoming the worst in the country’s history, after Latin America’s biggest economy registered an eighth consecutive quarter of shrinkage, GDP figures showed Tuesday. The government statistics office said the economy shrank 0.9 percent in the last three months of 2016. That meant an ...
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India
Police arrest two Nigerians in India
Police have arrested two Nigerians in Delhi for defrauding a Hyderabad based Sai Prasad to the tune of Rs 1.5 crore in the garb of sending $ 5.6 million to the complainant for investing the same in business in India. The arrested Nigerians have been identified as Christ Williams aka ...
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Brasile
Brazil’s recession hits two year mark
Brazil’s recession is now the worst in the country’s history after extending for an eighth consecutive quarter to hit the two year mark, GDP figures showed Tuesday. The government statistics office said that the economy shrank 3.6 percent in 2016, following a 3.8 per cent fall in 2015. This is ...
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Cina
Foreign ‘pressure’ good for Chinese films, says Jackie Chan
Action star Jackie Chan said opening up China’s heavily-restricted film market to more foreign works would put positive pressure on local filmmakers, as rumours swirl Beijing will expand its quota on imported movies. Since 2012, China has permitted 34 films to be imported from overseas each year, but the state-run ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria external trade hits N17.35bn in 2016 – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics has said the value of the total trade at the end of 2016 was N17. 35bn. The NBS said that the figure was 6.5 percent higher than the value recorded in 2015. The bureau announced this in a report on “Merchandise Trade Intensity Index/Re-exports for ...
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Nigeria
Ondo Varsity resumes academic activities after weeks of strike
The Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH) in Okitipupa has resumed academic activities after a six-week strike. A visit by a correspondent of NAN to the main and the mini campuses on Tuesday showed that the administrative staff was at their duty posts screening new students and registering ...
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Nigeria
Bauchi approves death sentence for kidnapping
Kidnapping in Bauchi State is now punishable with death or life imprisonment as Gov. Mohammed Abdullahi signed into law a bill in that direction. The state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ibrahim Umar, made this known on Tuesday while briefing newsmen in Bauchi. He said that Abdullahi also assented ...