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Cina Hong Kong
What China can learn from the Pearl river delta
LIBERAL ECONOMICS MAY have gone out of fashion, but not before working miracles in some parts of the world. To witness one of them, visit the Luohu immigration-control point on Shenzhen’s border with Hong Kong, where some 80m crossings are made every year. Since Deng Xiaoping designated the mainland Chinese ...
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Cina
Shenzhen is a hothouse of innovation
ON A RECENT weekend several hundred academics and lawyers gathered in a hotel ballroom in Shenzhen for a discussion on “Innovation, inclusion and order”, an event jointly organised by the law schools at Peking, Oxford and Stanford universities. Legal conferences can be soporific, especially in China, and a scholar from ...
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Cina Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s tricky balancing act
ON THE OBSERVATION deck atop the Diwang building in Shenzhen you can see two large wax figures depicting Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher enjoying cups of tea. The two leaders negotiated the handover of Hong Kong to China, which eventually took place in 1997. At the time, Mrs Thatcher was ...
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Cina Hong Kong
A plan for Macau to team up with neighbouring Hengqin
CAN MACAU KICK its addiction to gambling? The former Portuguese colony’s economy is dominated by casinos. Officials now want to diversify its business model to include entertainment and family attractions, as Las Vegas has done. The snag is that Macau has about 30 square kilometres of land. But a solution ...
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Nuova Zelanda
Massive Helen Clark portrait found at Wellington dump
An enormous portrait of Helen Clark has wound up on Trade Me after it mysteriously appeared at the tip in Wellington.
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Nigeria
Customs Impounds N26bn Contraband Goods In Owerri
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) zone C Owerri, has confiscated a number of banned and illegally imported goods with overall Duty Paid Value (DPV) of over N26 billion. The prohibited items include: 928 packets of tramadol and other medications detained on the Owerri/Port Harcourt road which ...
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Nigeria
Agricultural Products Broker As A Business Venture
Agriculture has gone beyond farming; it is now a business that accommodates lots of players, because of the need for food, raw materials for industrial growth and jobs for the growing population of our youths. Nigerian government is planning to create millions jobs in Nigeria through her economic diversification into ...
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Nigeria
Re: Oil Majors, Friends Or Foes?
By Igo Weli We refer to the above-titled editorial opinion published in the April 4, 2017 edition of the LEADERSHIP and wish to point out that the write-up does not in any way truthfully reflect the operations and business principles of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC). ...
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Nigeria
“Nigeria Will Save $206m If Farmers Adopt New Rice Technology”
Chief of Party, Feed the Future Nigeria, Agro Inputs Project IFDC, DR Kofi Debrah has said Nigeria will save $206 million in import substitution, if farmers adopt the new inputs and right fertilisers which have been tested by the organization in collaboration with the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS). ...
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Portogallo
A dimensão social da Indústria 4.0
Portugal deve estar do lado certo, aproveitando as oportunidades de investimento e emprego associadas a esta digitalização da economia.