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Thailandia
Major banks hit by provisions, weak loans
Most major Thai banks reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday as they booked higher provisions for bad debt, with loans weak amid a tepid recovery in the country's economy.
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Giappone Australia
Japan Post seen taking giant loss on Toll Holdings acquisition
Japan Post Holdings Co. might post impairment losses worth hundreds of billions of yen for fiscal 2016 related to its acquisition of an Australian logistics firm in 2015, sources close to the matter said Thursday. Toll Holdings Ltd. is reeling from declining parcel volumes sparked by a drop in Australia’s ...
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Giappone Indonesia Vietnam
Suzuki debuts Ignis SUV in Indonesia in first Southeast Asia launch
Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp. is unveiling the Ignis urban sport utility vehicle in Indonesia, in its inaugural launch of the model in Southeast Asia, as it seeks to regain market share once held by the popular Splash. Suzuki’s local sales arm, PT. Suzuki Indomobil Sales, will start selling the new ...
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Giappone
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission carries out raids over alleged food can cartel
The Fair Trade Commission on Thursday searched sites linked to three major food can manufacturers, including industry leader Toyo Seikan, for allegedly forming an effective cartel in violation of the anti-monopoly law. The other two are Hokkai Can and Daiwa Can. According to sources familiar with the FTC probe, the ...
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Giappone
Nikkei falls back slightly amid wait-and-see mood
The benchmark Nikkei average turned slightly lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday amid a wait-and-see mood prior to the French presidential election on Sunday. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 1.71 points, or 0.01 percent, to close at 18,430.49. On Wednesday, the key market gauge rose 13.61 points. But the ...
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Giappone Singapore Vietnam
Billionaire Taizo Son ditches Japan in frustration, starts afresh in Singapore
Singapore may have just added a new tech billionaire, but it had to lure him from Japan first. Taizo Son, who built his fortune on hit smartphone game “Puzzle & Dragons,” has relocated to the city-state from Tokyo and plans to invest $100 million (about ¥11 billion) in Southeast Asia ...
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Giappone
Mitsubishi Aircraft targets Paris Air Show to debut regional jet
Mitsubishi Aircraft is looking to display its new regional aircraft at the Paris Air Show in June as it seeks more overseas orders for Japan’s first passenger jet after delaying the plane’s debut five times. The company is working out details on how it can use one of four aircraft ...
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Giappone
New Ginza Six shopping complex opens in Tokyo’s high-end fashion hub
A new shopping complex opened Thursday at the former site of the Matsuzakaya department store in Tokyo’s Ginza district featuring high-end boutiques and a traditional performing art theater targeting both foreign tourists and domestic customers. The 13-story Ginza Six complex hosts a total of 241 shops, including flagship outlets for ...
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USA Giappone
Japan’s Aso pushes back against U.S. pressure for bilateral trade deal
Japan has less room to compromise with the United States under a bilateral trade deal than under a multilateral agreement like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said, taking a swipe at U.S. attempts to directly pressure Tokyo into opening up heavily-protected markets like agriculture. Also also said ...
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Giappone
Future Facebook users may someday connect to social network with just their minds
Facebook on Wednesday unveiled projects aimed at allowing users to use their minds to type messages or their skin to hear words. “Speech is essentially a compression algorithm, and a lousy one at that,” Facebook executive and former DARPA director Regina Dugan told a packed audience at its annual conference ...