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Turchia
Turkey’s foreign trade deficit soars 80 pct in July
Turkey’s foreign trade gap surged 80.4 percent in July and exceeded $8.7 billion due to a steep rise in gold imports and a base effect that resulted from a failed coup last July.
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Etiopia
Turkish construction giant mulls growth in Africa
Turkish construction giant Yapı Merkezi hopes a $3 billion modern railway-line project it is building in Ethiopia and Tanzania will showcase its skills and make it a “trusted development partner” in Africa.
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Russia USA Nigeria
Trump approves new Russia sanctions
United States President, Donald Trump, has signed into a law a bill which imposes new sanctions on Russia for their alleged meddling in the 2016 election. The White House had indicated that Mr. Trump would sign the bill after it had passed through both houses of Congress, the BBC reports. ...
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Nigeria
Bizman Sue NDLEA Boss, RCCG Others Over Ownership Of Land
OLUGBENGA SOYELE, Lagos A Lagos based businessmen, Mallam Sadiq Eldau has dragged the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (Rtd) and four others before the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere over disputes over the ownership of a plot of land located in the ...
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Angola Nigeria
L’Opep n’a pas respecté ses engagements
La production pétrolière de l’Opep a augmenté de 90 000 barils par jour (bj) en juillet, le plus haut niveau enregistré depuis décembre 2016, selon une enquête de l’agence Reuters, menée après le rétablissement de l’approvisionnement de la Libye, l’un des pays exemptés de l’accord de réduction de production. Les ...
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Thailandia
B7.5bn for port improvement, complex in Klong Toey
The Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) will spend 7.5 billion baht on improving services and facilities, and develop unused land at the Bangkok Port into a business and meeting complex in the next five years.
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Giappone
As manga goes digital via smartphone apps, do paper comics still have a place?
Japan’s famed manga industry is turning the page to an unknown chapter.Possibly this year, annual sales of digital comics may surpass that of paper for ...
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Giappone
Airbnb rival Tujia to partner with Rakuten in push for larger share of Japan ‘minpaku’ market
Tie-up of e-commerce giant and Chinese firm comes following the passage of a new law giving the green light to private short-term lodging services.
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Cina
U.S. reportedly plans trade action over Chinese theft of intellectual property
The Trump administration is reportedly considering using rarely invoked U.S. trade laws to compel China to crack down on theft of copyrights, patents and other ...
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Brasile
Rio Launches Small Business Program Focused on Beach Tourism
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Amidst a crippling economic crisis and rising security concerns, a new program for small businesses called Fortalecimento do Turismo nas Praias da Zona Sul (Strengthening South Zone Beach Tourism) was announced yesterday, August 1st. The goal is that by the ...