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Cipro
Cyprus peace talks ‘last chance’ for deal
Turkey’s foreign minister said ongoing talks aimed at findign a solution to Cyprus issue are the “last chance” to reach a peace accord
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Australia
Turkish films win awards in Australia
“Turkish Waves,” a cultural event organized by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy in collaboration with the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Australia Foreign and Trade Ministry in the Australian city of Brisbane, left its mark on the 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), known as the Oscars of ...
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Italia
Frode su prodotti informatici, 13 indagati
Operazione della finanza tra Roma e Perugia, sequestri per 15 milioni
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Italia
Burden-sharing
BANKS in Italy fared better during the financial crisis than many of their peers, sparing Italian taxpayers the bail-outs their counterparts in other countries had to shoulder. But although they stuck to their cautious business models and avoided fuelling a big housing boom and bust, Italy’s protracted recession has enfeebled ...
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Brasile
Deep impact
Trying times for Esteves AS THE founder and boss of BTG Pactual, a Brazilian investment bank, André Esteves has been a shrewd and hyperactive dealmaker. But on November 25th some of those deals appeared to sour, when he was arrested in Rio de Janeiro as part of a vast bribery investigation ...
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Cina Giappone
Pricing risk
CHINA’S domestic bond market has never been riskier. It was only last year that it suffered its first default. This year at least six companies have defaulted. The miscreants are a diverse lot, including a beverage bottler, a solar-panel maker and a cement company. As economic growth grinds lower, defaults ...
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Giappone
Loosening their ties
MEETINGS to last no more than 30 minutes; junior staff allowed to speak freely with superiors; a cut in bonuses for bosses whose teams do not take enough holidays. Since 2012 “Pride”, a handbook, has set a new tone for the internal culture of Hyundai Capital. Departments whose staff work ...
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Cina Giappone
Chicago hope
That’s a dummy, not a customer WHEN a globally successful fashion-store chain opens up for the first time in a big city’s most prominent shopping district, it might reasonably expect a rush of excited consumers. But when Uniqlo of Japan opened its first midwestern outlet last month, on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, ...
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Cina
Standing up to Superman
Thwarted, for now HONG KONG likes to think of itself as a bastion of global capitalism. Unlike politicised and parochial financial centres on the Chinese mainland, locals claim, their transparent markets protect the rights of minority investors. As evidence, they point to the fact that Hong Kong refused to let Alibaba ...
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Portogallo
Juros da dívida fecham abaixo de nível pré-eleitoral
Os juros das Obrigações do Tesouro a 10 anos encerraram quinta-feira em 2,33% no mercado secundário da dívida, em dia de tomada de posse do novo governo em Portugal