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...The cheap yen has had a positive effect on the profitability of many Japanese companies, it has fuelled food and energy inflation but, crucially for Hawaii, it has made a dollar-denominated holiday feel...
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...the “lion’s share” of the inheritance....
...One thing to start: Private equity firm General Atlantic is teaming up with Abu Dhabi state fund ADQ and IHC, the emirate’s largest listed company, to launch a new investment firm....
...The Australian government also forced the abandonment of two high-profile deals — China Mengniu’s A$600m bid for Japan-owned Lion Dairy and China State Construction Engineering Corp’s A$300m bid for Probuild...
...The Russian direct investment fund, the state sovereign wealth fund that is managing overseas sales and production of Sputnik V, said it was awaiting confirmation from India of Monday’s recommendation....
...Simon Schama deep history in hawaii “In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers perished twenty years ago” wrote Mark Twain, in unexpectedly fragrant tone, of the four months he spent in Hawaii in...
...Then, in November the company’s UK subsidiary was slapped with demands from the State Bank of India and Yes Bank for repayment of loans worth about £200m....
...The bulk of Sinopharm’s overseas orders have been negotiated directly with countries in the developing world, where its vaccines face intense competition from the likes of Russia’s Sputnik V and Oxford/AstraZeneca...
...The Russian Direct Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund managing overseas sales and production of Sputnik V, has deals with at least five Indian pharmaceutical companies to produce a combined 850m...
...In Hungary, Sinopharm’s vaccines were bought for $36 per dose, more than three times the price of Russia’s Sputnik V. Senegal paid $19 per dose for Sinopharm jabs....
...Most of the (limited number of) large shocks differ in important respects from one another....
...Now they’re back to work but of course overseas demand has just cratered unless you’re making face masks.” Additional reporting by Xinning Liu...
...The officials say their concern is not limited to a few tech companies, but that all Chinese companies could be seen as threats because they are potentially subject to the ruling Communist party’s control...
...In other words, state-owned telecoms companies no longer have the lion’s share of accurate user data in China. The best data lies in the hands of private companies such as Alibaba and Tencent....
...The EU has set a target that 32 per cent of energy consumed should be from renewable sources by 2030. A new directive requires member states to set out plans on how to achieve this....
...A mid-level manager at one of the country’s three state-owned banks says he has been ordered to lend even to companies with no prospects of repaying....
...(Recode) Trump v Hawaii The US Supreme Court will consider the legality of President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban....
...Official estimates put the cost of the crisis at $500bn a year, a massive burden that has left states and cities struggling to pay for the fallout....
...The Supreme Court in June ruled in Bristol-Myers Squibb v Superior Court that, in product liability and mass tort cases, plaintiffs can only sue companies in states where they purchase or use the product...
...Uber of the skies? The disruption is not limited to Asia’s traditional flag carriers, however....
...companies are unplugging from the state utility....
...“Squid die anyway within a year and a half, so the resource is relatively stable,” says Hu Shibao, president of CNFC Overseas Fisheries Co, a unit of China’s largest state-owned fishing conglomerate....
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...Republicans are also voting in Idaho and Hawaii, but the focus is Michigan, which has the most number of delegates on offer and may give an indication of how rust-belt states, including Ohio on March 15,...
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