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...Shortly after a Chinese company opened up nearby, employees at Malaysian contract manufacturer Kemikon walked outside their factory to find sheets of paper stuck to their car windshields....
...The culprits are no secret: companies in the pulp and paper and palm oil industries. Small farmers also burn off forest and peatland. Indonesia’s annual blazes were first taken seriously in 1997....
...Headquarters of companies and financial institutions are concentrated there, and the city’s harbour is home to Pakistan’s main port....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...The company said it later tried to give those papers to community members directly, but the villagers refused to take them....
...At present, many cities rely on direct transmission lines from Thailand and Vietnam....
...Qingdao — pronounced chin-dow — is a port city in China famous for its Tsingtao brewery, but the name continues to cast a long shadow over the global metals market. Here’s why. What has happened?...
...Raadhu, an accountant with KPMG, is keen to think of ways to put pressure on the western companies active in Sri Lanka....
...The Direct Taxes Code, along with a Discussion Paper, will be released to the public for debate....
...It’s ugly, as the street owns a lot of paper,” said Michael Kastner, portfolio manager at SterlingStamos. “People are throwing in the towel and the selling is starting to cascade.”...
...■Sir Victor Blank, the City grandee who heads GUS and Trinity Mirror, is poised to complete an elite hat-trick of chairmanships by taking the helm at Lloyds TSB, Britain’s 14th-biggest company....
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