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...The auto chip scarcity and US-China tensions have prompted governments to strengthen their semiconductor supply chains....
...The ultraviolence is state of the art, a Dhaka car chase lurchingly adrenal, Grand Theft Auto V in flesh and blood (a lot of blood)....
...At the auto parts shop, Mrs McBrayer has her own concerns....
...Furthermore, many of the lowest-income borrowers have significant off-system debt owed to loan sharks, unofficial pawn shops and other such illegal lenders....
...Says the Chinese political analyst: “They are all pawns, some of the smallest pawns in this game.”...
...These range from gold shops engaging in unlicensed lending, to illegal pawn shops, to loan sharks with links to organised crime....
...But especially in the provinces, pawn shops, auto loan companies and jewellery shops can all front for cash-raising operations to channel money into high-interest, black market loans, with even less regulation...
...In reality, household debt is even higher because official numbers ignore the significant sums poor Thais owe off-system pawn shops and money lenders....
...General Motors and Chrysler, the two carmakers the US government bailed out in 2009, have made their most decisive efforts so far to avoid becoming political pawns in the presidential election by banning...
...Mr Kerviel and Olivier Metzner, his celebrity defence lawyer, are also likely to claim in court that the former golden boy was only a pawn in a financial system that ran amok....
...Mahindra, the $4.5bn Indian group best known as an auto manufacturer, Wednesday became the latest company to announce a retail venture there....
...ZR Auto, a dealership selling sleek, high-octane, Porsches and Lamborghinis with lofty price tags, is just one of the high-end businesses now on International Avenue, though there is still a pawn shop a...
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