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India
India has potential to clock 6-7% GDP growth: Goldman Sachs
Timothy Moe, chief Asia Pacific regional equity strategist at GS, said impact on reforms has so far been a mixed bag - 'a glass half-empty, half-full'
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Giappone
Les Waas, famed for Mister Softee jingle, Procrastinators Club, dies at 94
Les Waas, the advertising legend behind the Mister Softee jingle heard in hundreds of ice cream trucks for more than half a century, has died. He was 94. Waas died April 19 at Abington Hospice in Warminster, according to Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks funeral home. The Mister Softee song, originally written ...
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Giappone
Panasonic’s fiscal 2015 net profit up 7.7% on restructuring efforts
Panasonic Corp. said Thursday its group net profit rose 7.7 percent in fiscal 2015 from the previous year to ¥193.26 billion ($1.78 billion), helped by its restructuring. Operating profit increased 8.8 percent to ¥415.71 billion in the year through last month on sales of ¥7.55 trillion, down 2.1 percent, the ...
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Giappone
Surge in foreign visitors boosts profits of ANA, JAL in fiscal 2015
Robust demand from foreign travelers to Japan boosted profits of the country’s two major airlines in fiscal 2015, according to their earnings reports released Thursday. ANA Holdings Inc. reported a record group net profit of ¥78.17 billion ($723 million) for the year through March 31, roughly double the amount reported ...
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Giappone
Government to do its own tests on Mitsubishi vehicles as performance scandal widens
The transport ministry will begin collecting data on four models next week and announce the results in June. The post Government to do its own tests on Mitsubishi vehicles as performance scandal widens appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Giappone
Dollar plunges to ¥108.40 as BOJ disappoints on easing
The dollar took a nose dive to around ¥108.40 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, amid disappointment over Bank of Japan’s decision not to release more easing. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.39-40, down from ¥111.20-20 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1346-1347, up from $1.1329-1329, ...
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Spagna
Gobierno autorizó a Sky Airline a cubrir vuelos entre Santiago de Chile y Córdoba
Se trata de la línea trasandina de bajo costo, que explotará servicios de transporte aéreo de pasajeros, carga y correo.
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Turchia
Foreign tourists visiting Turkey see sharpest drop in March since October 2006
The number of foreign arrivals to Turkey declined approximately 13 percent in March to 1.65 million compared to the same month of 2015, the sharpest drop since October 2006, amid rising security concerns and dramatic decrease in the number of Russian tourists
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Austria
UN chief slams ‘increasingly restrictive’ EU refugee policies, as Austria adopts tough new asylum law
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon hit out April 28 at what he called “increasingly restrictive” refugee policies in Europe as the continent faces its worst migrant crisis in decades, during a visit to Austria, whose parliament adopted one of Europe’s toughest asylum laws the previous day
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Cina
China imposes controversial new controls on foreign NGOs
China’s Communist-controlled legislature passed a law imposing new regulations on foreign non-government organizations on April 28, authorities said