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India Vietnam
Bank of India enters Vietnam: report
Vietnam is now home to 56 branches of foreign banks, including six with whole foreign ownershipVietnam's credit growth inches up to 6.82 pct in first 6 monthsVietnam's central bank to acquire 52 percent stake in PVcomBank
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Cina Taiwan Vietnam Hong Kong
Vietnam mulls scrapping part of $1.2 bln paper mill over environmental concerns
The complex developed by Hong Kong's Lee & Man has attracted widespread criticismVietnamese journalists attacked while investigating Formosa waste scandalVietnam says investigating dry waste by Formosa steel unitFormosa unit suspected of burying untreated waste in central VietnamVietnam to inspect waste treatment at Chinese paper mill
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Nigeria
Attacks: Nigeria loses N53bn oil revenue in three months
Okechukwu Nnodim The drop in Nigeria’s crude oil revenue in the first quarter of 2016, put at N53.72bn, is higher than the total amount the nation lost in the whole of 2015 (N51.3bn) as a result of incessant attacks on pipelines conveying petrol. Nigeria’s crude oil export decreased by 7.81 ...
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Nigeria
Trump and racist, xenophobic rejection of neoliberal globalization in the West – a hopeful portent? (1)
It is the early hours of Friday, July 22, 2016 and as I have been doing in the last three days, I have been sitting up late into the early hours of the new day watching television broadcast of the Republican Party’s National Convention on the CNN channel. Because I ...
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Nigeria
CBN meets over volatile naira, interest rate
•Lifts ban on forex sales to BDCs The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is set to review recent developments in the global and domestic economy at a crucial two day meeting commencing tomorrow in Abuja. Topping the agenda for the meeting is the volatility of the naira in the parallel market ...
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Nigeria
What inspired President Buhari’s security architecture?
Is it true that these herdsmen are now to be guarded by members of the Nigerian Civil Defence? Can President Buhari truly approve that public funds be spent on this lucrative private business? I write this piece with considerable pain not only because, as happened to Professor Segun Gbadegesin, some ...
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USA Giappone
U.S. set to complete key step for regulating aircraft emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency will as soon as Monday finalize a scientific finding that greenhouse gases from aviation endanger human health, obligating the United States to regulate emissions from commercial aircraft, sources told Reuters. The EPA’s “endangerment finding” requires the agency to implement greenhouse gas emission standards for U.S. aircraft, ...
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Giappone
Fukushima banks hope to lure nuclear evacuees back by reopening branches
Regional banks in Fukushima Prefecture are reopening outlets in radiation-contaminated areas to help lure residents back more than five years after the triple core meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant laid waste to the region in March 2011. Residents have been slow to return despite the phased lifting ...
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Giappone
Group of 20 hopes for close partnership between Britain, EU
Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies hope to see Britain as “a close partner” of the European Union in the future, warning that Britain’s decision to exit the bloc added uncertainty to the global economy, a draft communique showed Saturday. The G-20 finance ministers and central bank ...
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UAE to exempt some SMEs from need for bank guarantees
Move for firms with Emirati owner or director is latest step to support sector