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Israele
Israel's largest bank plans shake up in medium-sized business lending
Business in Brief | Menora, Altshuler Shaham mulling merger of mutual funds businesses; Bino cuts Paz stake to 11% in 700-million-shekel share sale; Tel Aviv shares end higher, led by biomed.
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Thailandia Indonesia Singapore Vietnam Filippine
Understanding the challenges in developing future leaders
Thai business is at a crossroads. The rapidity of information, the advancement of communication and technology, the great diversity in the workforce and thriving Asean markets all reinforce the dramatic change that holds great promise but also poses major challenges. Meeting these challenges requires proactive learning and adaptation as well ...
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USA Giappone
Explosions, fires point to need for e-cigarette recall, senator says
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is increasing the heat on the federal government to consider recalling e-cigarette batteries and devices that explode and catch fire, injuring users. Schumer, a New York Democrat, has called e-cigarettes “ticking time bombs” and said they continue to cause injuries including severe burns. At a press ...
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Giappone
Yahoo seen cutting cost corners with security tech discredited long before massive hack
In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc. launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use of a discredited technology for encrypting data known as MD5. It was too late. In August of that year, hackers got hold of more than a billion Yahoo accounts, ...
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Giappone
Huge 2013 North Dakota oil spill still not cleaned up despite round-the-clock effort
Three years and three months later, a massive oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up. The company responsible hasn’t even set a date for completion. Though crews have been working around the clock to deal with the Tesoro Corp. pipeline break, which happened in a wheat field ...
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Giappone
IranAir pares Airbus order, including 12 superjumbo A380s
IranAir has trimmed its planned order from Europe’s Airbus to 100 planes, partly by dropping superjumbo A380s, the flag carrier’s head said on Sunday, confirming an adjustment first reported by Reuters. “Although the nominal value of the contract for 118 Airbus planes had been announced at $25 billion, the A380 ...
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Brasile
Rodoviária Novo Rio espera movimento de 582 mil passageiros no fim do ano
Cerca de 582 mil passageiros deverão passar pela Rodoviária Novo Rio no período de 22 de dezembro de 2016 a 2 de janeiro de 2017, de acordo com estatística divulgada pela Concessionária Novo Rio, grupo que administra o terminal, localizado no bairro de Santo Cristo, próximo ao centro do Rio ...
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Kenya
Kenya: 1,200 striking Kenyan nurses ordered to resume duty or face the sack
Striking nurses in the county will be sacked if they do not resume duty by Sunday, Health Executive Mungai Kabii has warned.
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Kenya
Business News: Kenya up there with the best in clean energy use
Kenya's investment in geothermal and wind energy has seen the country ranked 10th in an index on developing economies spearheading renewable energy efforts.
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Kenya
Business: Kenya up there with the best in clean energy use
Kenya's investment in geothermal and wind energy has seen the country ranked 10th in an index on developing economies spearheading renewable energy efforts.