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USA
A new look at water and gender
Source: World Bank Country: WorldIn one of the very few analyses to connect water to gender inequality, the World Bank explores how this relationship plays out in unexpected ways. STORY HIGHLIGHTS New World Bank report “The Rising Tide: A New Look at Water and Gender” shows how water often reflects, and even reinforces, ...
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Kenya
Kenya: Foreign Investor Returns in Major Rise at Nairobi Bourse
[Nation] Kenya's stock market has become increasingly profitable for foreign investors, with the annualised dollar-adjusted return on the 15 largest companies rising to 29.5 per cent from 7.1 per cent three months ago.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Foreign Investors Stake $291 Million in Nigeria's Oil Sector
[Vanguard] Foreign investment inflow into the Nigerian oil and gas industry rose to $291.47 million in the first six months of the year, between January and June 2017, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS. The NBS in its Second Quarter 2017 Foreign Capital Importation Report, ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria: State Moves to Increase Fruits Export to Europe
[Premium Times] The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has concluded arrangements to sign a Technical Collaboration Agreement with the Port of Antwerp, Belgium towards increasing the export of Nigerian fruits to the European countries.
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Thailandia
SET falls 0.30 to 1,585.49 at opening
Thai stocks opened down 0.02% at the start of trade this morning.
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Giappone
Japanese executives to meet Prayut in September
More than 500 Japanese firms, led by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Investment (METI), will visit Thailand in mid-September for further trade and investment cooperation, says Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak.
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Thailandia
BAC unveils Phuket catering facility
The landscape of the airline catering business at Phuket airport is undergoing a transformation with Bangkok Air Catering Co (BAC) breaking up a long-standing monopoly.
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Russia
Lawyer: Proposal to build Trump Tower in Russia during GOP primary was dropped for ‘business reasons’
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer is acknowledging that the president’s company considered building a Trump Tower in Moscow during the Republican primary, but the plan ...
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Kenya
Ordinary Kenyans not initially targeted in Sh4m plastic bag penalty
Kenya's law which sets a record Sh4 million or four-year jail term for those who violate the plastic bag ban passes as one of the toughest punishment globally.
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Nigeria
Nigeria’s economy picking up, says Buhari
• Adeosun, Udoma, Emefiele brief President President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday received briefings from some ministers and Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, on the state of the economy. Buhari, who was in the United Kingdom for 103 days on medical vacation, expressed delight that the economy ...