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Thailandia
SET up 2.77 points at opening
Thai stocks opened up 0.19% at the start of trade this morning.
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Cina Thailandia Hong Kong
Fulcrum to double Thai investment
Hong Kong-based Fulcrum Global Capital aims to double its Thai property investments to 8 billion baht over the next four years.
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Giappone
Tokyo stocks fall on Wall Street and strong yen
Stocks declined further on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, with investor sentiment hurt by weaker U.S. equities overnight and the yen’s ascent. The Nikkei average slumped 209.23 points, or 1.26 percent, to end at 16,405.01, its first finish below 16,500 since Aug. 26. On Wednesday, it fell 114.80 points. ...
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Giappone
Toshiba tells TSE of its governance reforms in bid to get shares off watch list
Toshiba Corp. submitted a report to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday to explain how corporate governance at the major electronics maker has improved since its accounting scandal came to light, the company said. The step is aimed at getting its name taken off the bourse’s watch list. After examining ...
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Giappone Australia
Bigger, tastier and pinker: Australia’s $1.5 billion super shrimp farm
Somewhere in the vast fishing waters off Australia’s northern coast, the hunt is on for the Adams and Eves needed to start a super race of shrimp. The chosen few will be key to the success of a $1.5 billion plan by Seafarms Group Ltd. to build the largest shrimp ...
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Giappone
7-Eleven’s new boss bides time on turnaround as stock falls
After his appointment in May, the president of 7-Eleven’s floundering parent company promised to deliver a turnaround plan in about 100 days. Ryuichi Isaka is on day 112 and counting. Since Isaka took over on May 26, shares of Seven & I Holdings Co. have fallen 7 percent, widening their ...
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USA Giappone
New York to disable sidewalk internet kiosks following porn use by homeless
The web-browsing feature of New York City’s sidewalk Wi-Fi kiosks will be disabled after critics complained that homeless people were monopolizing them and using them to watch porn, officials said Wednesday. The consortium that installed 400 LinkNYC kiosks across the city said it will remove web browsing from the kiosks ...
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Giappone
Mitsubishi considers majority stake in Lawson in shift away from commodities
Mitsubishi Corp. has proposed increasing its stake in convenience store operator Lawson Inc. and may make it a subsidiary as the country’s biggest trading house shifts away from commodities. The company currently has a 33.4 percent stake in Japan’s third-biggest operator of convenience stores. Lawson said in a statement it ...
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Giappone
Regional bank OKB branches out into chocolates
In an unusual financial environment marked by negative interest rates, venerable Japanese regional lender Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank is branching out into the chocolate business. A company in which OKB holds a stake will shortly release OKB chocolate in collaboration with a cake shop, the bank’s president said in a recent ...
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Giappone
Japanese firms wage war on sweaty ‘smell harassment’
Got stinky colleagues? Japan has a seminar for that. After a long, sweaty summer, some firms in a nation renowned for its cleanliness are declaring all out war on an office plague known as sumehara (smell harassment). Telling a colleague they stink is touchy stuff, of course. But personal care ...