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USA
Amazon wants to foster small independent delivery fleets
SEATTLE: Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday that it would offer incentives to entice entrepreneurs to set up their own small package-delivery businesses as part of the company's latest effort to solve the challenge of getting goods the last mile to customer doorsteps.
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Vietnam
Vietnam's growth seen strongest in eight years
HANOI: Vietnam's economy is estimated to have grown 7.08% over January-June this year, the fastest first-half growth since 2010, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said on Friday.
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Indonesia Vietnam
E-commerce, 5G to propel Asia-Pacific
Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are regarded as the key drivers of growth in Southeast Asia's economy as e-commerce gains in popularity.
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Thailandia
Thai traders tout sales 1.5m tonnes of tapioca
Foreign buyers have agreed to purchase nearly 1.5 million tonnes of tapioca products at the two-day World Tapioca Conference 2018, which ended yesterday.
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Cina USA Thailandia
Trade war may wound Thai exports
Thailand is forecast to lose more than it gains from the trade spat between the US and China, with a net negative effect on exports of US$280-420 million for the rest of this year, reaching $4.5 billion (149 billion baht) if the retaliatory trade measures continue past 2018, says Kasikorn ...
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Giappone
Japan Fair Trade Commission calls for change to restrictive 4-year smartphone contracts
The Fair Trade Commission issued a call Thursday for a correction to the common practice by telecommunications firms of selling new smartphones on four-year installment ...
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Cina
Sharp cancels new share sale, blaming market instability caused by U.S.-China trade tensions
Sharp Corp., the electronics-maker controlled by Foxconn Technology Group, canceled plans to raise as much as ¥200 billion ($1.8 billion) in a public share sale, ...
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Giappone
Diet enacts TPP bill, moving Japan a step closer to ratifying the trade pact
The Diet on Friday enacted legislation necessary for the completion of domestic procedures ahead of the ratification of the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.The ...
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Giappone
The business of death has a bright future in Japan
Norihisa Tomiyasu opened his first mortuary in 1997 aiming to clean up a profession he says deserved its bad reputation for exploiting people’s grief and ...
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Giappone
Nintendo revives sales of palm-sized Famicom console
Nintendo Co. has resumed sales in Japan of a smaller, palm-sized version of its 35-year-old popular Famicom game console, in response to requests from fans ...