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Thailandia
Sugarcane prospects look positive
Sugarcane output is expected to reach 85-90 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year amid better business prospects in the sugar industry, says the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).
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Giappone Taiwan
At bilateral trade talks, Japan urges more collaboration with Taiwan on chips
The chairman of the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association expressed hopes that cooperation would positively impact the resilience of both Taiwan and Japan's supply chains.
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Giappone
Tesla’s price cut helped fuel doubling of foreign EV sales in Japan in 2021
Japan has been relatively slow to embrace EVs, partly due to a lack of charging stations, parking space and sufficient subsidies as the vehicles tend ...
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Cina
China offers digital yuan at Olympics to test overseas appeal
Visitors can download an app or get a physical card that stores the digital yuan, or convert foreign bank notes into e-CNY at self-service machines, ...
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Cina Hong Kong
Omicron pushes Hong Kong’s import supply chain to brink of collapse
A slashing of flights that bring everything from Australian cherries to wagyu beef into the financial hub is set to raise costs and boost inflation
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Giappone Indonesia
Japan presses Indonesia to lift coal export ban
Industry minister Koichi Hagiuda asked that Jakarta understand the need to resolve the issue, saying Japanese companies have been bewildered by the ban.
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Cina USA Giappone Australia
Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging
A COROLLARY OF Leviathan’s growth is rising bureaucracy. Once a regulator is created, it is never defunded. As the state becomes more involved in citizens’ lives and agencies expand, so do rulebooks. And a lot of their dos and don’ts apply to business. Patrick McLaughlin of the Mercatus Centre at George ...
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Francia Giappone
Governments’ widespread new fondness for interventionism
AS WITH ALL history, capitalism’s may not repeat but it does rhyme. Periods of freer enterprise give way to ones with a more meddlesome state. When change comes, it is after crisis, occasionally exogenous (war, pandemic), at other times provoked by excesses (financial crash, depression, stagflation). Yet the metre is ...
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Cina Hong Kong
The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action
OBSERVERS OF CHINA’S rise have grown used to seeing old edifices bulldozed to make way for the new. As with bricks and mortar, so with intellectual constructs. In just 12 months President Xi Jinping has replaced a “cautious and tolerant” approach to the private sector with something much less so. ...
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Singapore
The long trend of falling corporate taxes is being reversed
FOR WORLD peace, the League of Nations was an abject failure. For companies, it has proved a great success. In the 1920s it set a basis for corporate taxation that has endured ever since. Recognising that taxing profits in different places can hurt trade and growth, rights to tax were ...