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Colombia
Antitrust chief leaves for Colombia for competition conference
South Korea‘s antitrust chief left for Colombia on Monday for an international conference on competition, the Fair Trade
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Nigeria
Ngige Inaugurates NSITF Board, Cautions Against Award Of Contracts
LEADERSHIP : Ngige inaugurates NSITF board, cautions against award of contracts Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, has cautioned the board and management of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF) against award of contracts. Ngige, who handed down the warning while inaugurating the new board of NSITF at ...
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Nigeria
PAL Pension Harps On Acquisitions Of Financial, Entrepreneurship Skills
LEADERSHIP : Nigerians youths has been charged to focus on the acquisition of finance and entrepreneurship skills as a recipe for self actualization and economic development. The call came from Pensions Alliance Limited otherwise known as PAL Pension, the group noted that the gap in financial literacy and employability skills ...
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Cina
Markets Fall as Investors Await China Response to Trump
Global stocks took a modest tumble on Monday as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies showed little sign of ending soon.
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Cina
U.S.-China Trade Talks Stumble on Beijing’s Spending at Home
As the trade war intensifies, Chinese subsidies for homegrown industries present a difficult obstacle to reaching a deal.
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Brasile
Brazil has Twelve Airports Among the Best in the World
Richard Mann, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Twelve Brazilian airports remained among the top 50 in the world, according to the 2019 AirHelp Score, an international ranking of the best airports and airline companies. Among the top 25, Rio de Janeiro got two airports ranked: Santos Dumont, which ...
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Brasile Russia USA Argentina
Possible Return of Cristina Kirchner to Power Worries Brazil
By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The possible return of Cristina Kirchner to power worries the Bolsonaro government, which may have her as a political counterpoint and whose ascension will change the correlation of forces in the continent. Through an erratic foreign policy that fails to ...
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Brasile
Brazil Economy Could Face “Serious Difficulties” in the Second Half of the Year
By Newsfeed RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s government will announce a new freeze on federal spendings later this month, special secretary to the Economy Ministry Waldery Rodrigues said on Thursday, blaming weak growth for stoking a budget deficit and hurting revenues. The freeze will be announced by May 22, ...
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Brasile
Indigenous Chief Raoni Goes to Europe in Defense of Amazon
By Newsfeed/AP RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s indigenous chief Raoni Metuktire headed to Paris Sunday for the start of a three-week tour across Europe where he will meet heads of state, celebrities, and the Pope to highlight growing threats to the Amazon. The elderly Kayapo chief, internationally recognizable through ...
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Brasile
Brazilian Research Produces Particle to Avoid Cocaine Overdose
By Richard Mann, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Researchers from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) developed a particle capable of trapping cocaine present in the body and thus preventing the user from dying from an overdose. The structure created has saved guinea pigs in every test conducted. ...