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Cina Kenya
Business: Kenya chokes on hefty infrastructure debts to China but are the projects viable?
The admission that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) will not repay its own loans and will require taxpayers to subsidise it to the tune of Sh15 billion is a damning verdict on the feasibility of Kenya's biggest infrastructure project.
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Kenya
Business: We won't compensate RVR for losing business to SGR, State insists
Kenya does not intend to compensate an Egyptian firm for a loss of business that could arise once the Standard Gauge Railway line begins operations.
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Kenya
Business News: We won't compensate RVR for losing business to SGR, State insists
Kenya does not intend to compensate an Egyptian firm for a loss of business that could arise once the Standard Gauge Railway line begins operations.
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Kenya
Kenya: Sh3 billion set aside to advance research in 2016/17 Financial Year
The idea was for the cash to reach two per cent of the GDP or Sh67 billion. The ideas is supposed to mobilise funds from the government and development partners and put together into a kitty for research, he said.
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Kenya
ICT boss terms proposal to hive off M-Pesa danger to economy
The CS said the Communications Authority of Kenya board is yet to discuss the report.
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Filippine
Thousands protest in Manila as Duterte jails top critic
He has not ruled out using martial law to prevent slide to narco-state status.
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Giappone
Popularity of card loans add to financial woes
Supreme Court records show that there were 64,637 filings for personal bankruptcy in 2016, an increase of 781 cases over 2015, thus marking the first increase in 13 years. The number of personal bankruptcies peaked in 2003 at almost 250,000 nationwide. The reason for the subsequent decrease was greater scrutiny ...
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Giappone
Dakota Access oil pipeline could be operating within weeks
Oil could be flowing through the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year. Energy ...
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Regno Unito Malta
Projects Malta nominated for international award
Projects Malta Ltd has been nominated as a finalist in the international Partnership Awards 2017 to be held in London. A total of 100 submissions were made for the awards, which will judge projects from Europe, Asia and Africa. The award recognises what it considers to be a model of joint projects between ...
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Russia
White House adviser asked FBI to rebut Russia links
Discussions breach policies designed to avoid political interference in law enforcement