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Thailandia
SET opens up 2.42 to 1,566.54
Thai stocks opened up 0.15% at the start of trade this morning.
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Vietnam
UOB’s FDI Advisory Unit facilitates more than $27 billion of business flows into Southeast Asia in 2016
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Nigeria
Police commence probe of UI Law student’s death
The Oyo State Police Command has commenced investigation into the death of Miss Deborah Effiong, a 100 Level Law student at the University of Ibadan. The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abiodun Odude, made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Ibadan. Odude ...
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Thailandia
Lawyer faces 150 years jail term for insulting monarch
A prominent human rights lawyer faces a prison term of 150 years if convicted on 10 counts of royal defamation under Thailand’s harsh royal insult law, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said on Thursday. Prawet Prapanukul, 57, provided legal assistance to members of a political opposition group, the United Front ...
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India
Maradona to visit India ahead of FIFA U-17 WC
Football legend Diego Maradona is set to visit the soccer-crazy city of Kolkata in September ahead of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup being hosted by India. The Argentine superstar will participate in a charity football match against Kolkata’s greatest cricket export and former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, the event promoters ...
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Nigeria
Mugabe denies Zimbabwe is in fragile state
Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, on Thursday told a panel discussion that his country was not a “fragile state”. Mugabe’s government is struggling with a debt crisis, a fall in foreign exchange inflows, and acute shortages of cash that have forced banks to limit withdrawals, as well as growing resistance ...
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Cina Giappone
Made-in-China passenger jet set for maiden test flight
China is expected this week to conduct the maiden test flight of a homegrown passenger jet built to meet soaring domestic travel demand and challenge the dominance of Boeing and Airbus. The C919, built by state-owned aerospace manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), was set to take wing over ...
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Giappone
Puerto Rico seeks bankruptcy protection to restructure $70 billion debt
The governor of Puerto Rico announced Wednesday that the U.S. territory would seek a form of bankruptcy protection to restructure its $70 billion debt, the largest municipal restructuring in U.S. history. By declaring bankruptcy, the territory can prevent any interruption in services to island inhabitants, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said at ...
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Cina USA
US and China’s competing visions for global trade
Martin Wolf on Trump’s ‘astonishingly primitive idea’ vs Xi’s ambition
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Kenya
Kenya: Kenya's FDI Projects Declined 55pc to Sh116bn Last Year
[Capital FM] Nairobi -Kenya's 2016 Foreign Direct Investment projects declined by 55 per cent according to the just released Ernst and Young (EY) Africa attractiveness report 2017.