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India
India gold import bill up 12%, reaches $35 bn in 2015
Crosses 100 tonnes in December alone, gross official import crossed 900 tonnes
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Ex-Olympus CEO Woodford sues company for breach of contract, four years after alleging fraud
Michael Woodford, the whistle-blowing former chief executive officer of Olympus Corp., has sued his former employer in the U.K. for breach of contract, more than four years after he alleged a $1.7 billion accounting fraud and 13-year cover-up at the firm. Woodford, who settled a 2012 employment suit with the ...
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91% of residents at condominium complex where building is tilting want all units rebuilt
A survey of unit owners at a condominium complex in Yokohama, where one of the four buildings was found to have tilted, showed Friday that 91.7 percent of respondents want all buildings to be rebuilt. This means that the owners of 628 of all 705 units at the complex, or ...
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India
Air India seeks around Rs 4,300 crore from govt for 2016-17
Air India has sought around Rs 4,300 crore worth funds from the government for the next financial year as the national carrier looks to turnaround its fortunes amid stiff competition.
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'Start-up India': SoftBank looks to raise India investment to $10 billion, CEO Masayoshi Son says
Betting on India emerging bigger than China, Japan's SoftBank on Saturday said it has invested %2 billion in Indian firms in the last one year and will look to scale up the investment to $10 billion in the coming year.
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India
Softbank CEO says will 'seriously' accelerate investments in India
"The time has come that the Indian economy will be big enough going forward. Mobile internet will make the domestic internet market big enough," Son said.
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India
'Start-up India': New tax regime for startups, Arun Jaitley says
Addressing the opening session of 'Start-up India' event, finance minister Arun Jaitley said that some of the new tax rules would be announced through executive orders, while some of them would be done in the budget.
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NTT Docomo planning to increase handset prices
Mobile carrier NTT Docomo Inc. plans to raise handset prices by around ¥10,000 to ¥20,000 so it can provide discounts to customers who use less data. The post NTT Docomo planning to increase handset prices appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Fujifilm to bid for Toshiba’s medical equipment unit
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. plans to participate in the upcoming bidding for Toshiba Corp.’s fully owned medical equipment unit, it has been learned. Fujifilm expects synergies from its acquisition of Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. because its medical equipment operations do not overlap much with those of the Toshiba unit, informed sources ...
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Fear of deflation like in Japan’s ‘lost decade’ prompted Fed into additional stimulus in 2010, transcript shows
The additional monetary stimulus that was approved by the Federal Reserve in 2010 reflected the U.S. central bank’s concern about the economy falling into Japanese-style deflation, a transcript released Friday of a policy board’s meeting at the time suggests. “Given this very slow growth outlook, I think there are several ...