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...As women move into cities, they “get exposed to a freer life”, said Beacon’s Yen....
...“This is something that government and business need to reconcile.” A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 28 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“In my conversations, the drafters (of the law) are quite receptive to hearing what other countries are doing,” said Manh-Hung Tran, head of the Vietnam tech practice at consultancy Baker McKenzie....
...“In this situation, Trong remains the default choice.” Party insiders told Nikkei that ulterior motives might be behind Trong’s anti-corruption drive....
...“Menopause affects every woman differently,” Mabel Yen Ngoc Nguyen, the start-up’s CEO, told Nikkei....
...The US-China tariff war was a more recent driver of businesses migrating south, but before that it was the Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...Hanoi agreed to scrap the test in a trade deal with the European Union as well as in the Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...But this comes at a price....
...“I share the concerns regarding the feasibility and sensibility of this requirement, especially when this rule applies to the cross-border platform,” Baker McKenzie partner Tran Manh Hung told Nikkei Asia...
...“Vietnam will actively and selectively attract foreign investments, taking high quality, efficiency, modern technology and environmental protection as the key benchmarks,” Tran Quoc Phuong, deputy minister...
...This is more than a personal landmark. Nearly eight years in office have given him the chance to put his stamp on Japan....
...State-controlled media quoted Hoang Thi Thuy, head of the agency’s customs control and supervision department, as saying that authorities had identified “dozens of cases” where this happened....
...farm groups are ramping up pressure on Donald Trump to quickly launch trade talks with Tokyo, as they face mounting evidence of lost sales and market share in Japan following America’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific...
...“We would also argue this move could well have a domestic political motive....
...Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction Thursday TPP deal The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will be signed in Santiago de Chile....
...Mr Abe is due to meet Mr Trump in Washington later this week, with the two leaders set to discuss trade ties in the wake of the president’s withdrawal from the multi-lateral Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...Amid this positivity, which also pushed US stocks to record highs and forced up Treasury yields, traders appeared prepared to shrug off the possibility of any damage to trade relations caused by Mr Trump...
...As Mr Abe may gently have to remind Mr Trump, Tokyo last intervened against the yen in 2011....
...He said Japan’s government will keep trying to persuade Donald Trump to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, even though the US president has vehemently rejected it....
...Since Mr Trump’s early abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, Asia has largely escaped the White House spotlight, but there is a wide assumption that this can only last so long....
...Tokyo’s broad Topix index, which closed Monday down 1.2 per cent, lost a further 0.6 per cent in the face of the stronger yen....
...Global stocks fell back and the dollar extended last week’s broad retreat as core government bonds, the yen and gold moved higher....
...Other pressure points cited are ongoing supply-demand imbalance in the trans-Atlantic and headwinds from its Yen hedge positions....
...Mr Abe warned this week that sudden currency shifts are “undesirable” and Japan has a history of intervening when the yen rises....
...One of Japan’s most downloaded recipes this month is a chocolate ganache cake made with 50 grams of butter....
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