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Giappone
Sapporo sues government for return of tax money paid on sale of beer-like drink
Sapporo Breweries Ltd. filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the government with the Tokyo District Court seeking a return tax money the company paid on its beer-like alcoholic beverage Goku Zero. The beer maker has been seeking the return of ¥11.5 billion ($104 million) in additional liquor tax it paid for ...
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Giappone
Trump’s tax secrecy complicates levy code overhaul: Schumer
The Senate’s top Democrat says President Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns is going to make this year’s promised overhaul of the tax code “much harder.” Sen. Charles Schumer says Trump is opening himself to second guessing about his motives for supporting different policies and that the average ...
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Giappone
‘Taken aback’ Google denies government claim of gender pay gap
Google said it’s “taken aback” by the government’s claim that it doesn’t compensate women fairly. The company said it conducts “rigorous analyses” that its pay practices are gender-blind and found “no gender pay gap” in 52 major job categories it analyzed last year. Google added that analysts who calculate suggested ...
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USA Giappone
Trump Organization settles suits with celebrity chefs
The Trump Organization, the conglomerate that unites the U.S. president’s family business interests, has settled lawsuits with two celebrity chefs who refused to work at the company’s new Washington hotel. The firm announced the agreement with Geoffrey Zakarian on Monday, three days after announcing the deal with Spanish-born Jose Andres. ...
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Giappone
United in public-relations fiasco over dragged passenger, weak apology
United is getting pummeled on late-night TV. Online, jokers are proposing new corporate slogans such as “We’ll drag you all over the world” and “We have red eye and black eye flights available.” On Wall Street, the airline briefly lost nearly $1 billion in market value before its stock regained ...
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Giappone
Forming Japanese consortium for Toshiba chip unit seen as difficult task
The idea of forming a consortium of Japanese companies to invest in Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory business will be difficult to realize, Japanese business leader Yoshimitsu Kobayashi said Tuesday. “The point is how a profitable scenario can be created” in such an investment, Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of ...
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Russia Giappone
Canada judge denies bail to alleged Yahoo hacker with Russia spy links
A judge denied bail Tuesday to a Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails. Karim Baratov, 22, has alleged ties to Russian agents and access to significant amounts of cash, making him a serious flight risk if freed on bail, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Baratov was arrested ...
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Giappone
Bank deposits top ¥700 trillion for first time
Bank deposits in Japan have exceeded ¥700 trillion for the first time, due to an influx of funds amid low interest rates that are the result of the Bank of Japan’s monetary easing policy, industry data showed Tuesday. The low interest rates have reduced investment returns in financial markets, causing ...
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Nigeria
Dangerous trend of killing security agents in Lagos
When an army captain and four policemen were brutally murdered in Ikorodu, a Lagos suburb, on April 9, while rescuing some kidnapped victims, the tragedy not only ricocheted to their families, friends and neighbours, it also hit Lagos’ pride as a leading state in Nigeria that aspires to become Africa’s ...
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Nigeria
Disclose your security votes, budget details, labour tells govs
Niyi Odebode and Fidelis Soriwei The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress on Tuesday challenged state governors to disclose their security votes and how local government funds were disbursed. READ: El-Rufai discloses security vote, salary, attacks N’Assembly The NLC and the TUC also said that it was high time the ...