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Thailandia
Lawyer faces 150 years jail term for insulting monarch
A prominent human rights lawyer faces a prison term of 150 years if convicted on 10 counts of royal defamation under Thailand’s harsh royal insult law, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said on Thursday. Prawet Prapanukul, 57, provided legal assistance to members of a political opposition group, the United Front ...
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India
Maradona to visit India ahead of FIFA U-17 WC
Football legend Diego Maradona is set to visit the soccer-crazy city of Kolkata in September ahead of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup being hosted by India. The Argentine superstar will participate in a charity football match against Kolkata’s greatest cricket export and former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, the event promoters ...
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Nigeria
Mugabe denies Zimbabwe is in fragile state
Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, on Thursday told a panel discussion that his country was not a “fragile state”. Mugabe’s government is struggling with a debt crisis, a fall in foreign exchange inflows, and acute shortages of cash that have forced banks to limit withdrawals, as well as growing resistance ...
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Cina Giappone
Made-in-China passenger jet set for maiden test flight
China is expected this week to conduct the maiden test flight of a homegrown passenger jet built to meet soaring domestic travel demand and challenge the dominance of Boeing and Airbus. The C919, built by state-owned aerospace manufacturer Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC), was set to take wing over ...
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Giappone
Puerto Rico seeks bankruptcy protection to restructure $70 billion debt
The governor of Puerto Rico announced Wednesday that the U.S. territory would seek a form of bankruptcy protection to restructure its $70 billion debt, the largest municipal restructuring in U.S. history. By declaring bankruptcy, the territory can prevent any interruption in services to island inhabitants, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said at ...
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Cina USA
US and China’s competing visions for global trade
Martin Wolf on Trump’s ‘astonishingly primitive idea’ vs Xi’s ambition
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Kenya
Kenya: Kenya's FDI Projects Declined 55pc to Sh116bn Last Year
[Capital FM] Nairobi -Kenya's 2016 Foreign Direct Investment projects declined by 55 per cent according to the just released Ernst and Young (EY) Africa attractiveness report 2017.
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Cina
Tanzania: The Belt and Road Initiative and China-Tanzania Relations
[Citizen] As early as two thousand years ago, China opened up a network of trade routes both on land and at sea. The land route started from Chinese inland cities and reached the Mediterranean countries through Central Asia.
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Kenya
Africa: Kenya Named Africa's Second-Most Attractive Investment Spot
[Nation] Consultancy EY has named Kenya as 2017's second-most attractive investment destination behind Morocco despite last year's poor performance where foreign direct investments (FDIs) dropped by 57.9 per cent.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Nigeria Ranks 17 On 2016 Africa Attractiveness Survey
[Premium Times] The latest Africa Attractiveness Survey, which provides an analysis of Foreign Direct investment, FDI, into the continent, has ranked Nigeria as the 17th destination for FDI in Africa.