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...Multinational banks, law firms and other businesses often selected the territory as the hub for their Asia regional operations....
...“Everyone is pivoting east,” said one banker working with regional sovereign wealth funds....
...This resulted in jail time for a number of the company’s executives, including the previous general counsel....
...The budget vote came a day after Mr Sánchez hosted a delegation from the Catalan regional administration for the start of official negotiations on the region’s future....
...When New York was on its knees in the 1970s, Stamford was one of the suburbs that became a magnet for corporations fleeing the decaying metropolis....
...Qatar is not quite the global powerhouse it was in 2008 after being isolated by its neighbours over regional divisions....
...In many cases Chinese corporations that were big buyers just a few years ago have been forced to become big sellers. Wu Xiaohui, the chairman of Anbang Insurance, is emblematic of the trend....
...But she argues that the corporations’ attempts to engage on matters of concern are essentially cosmetic, whether on their responsibilities on extremist content, their role in democracy (as a platform for...
...BN may lose some seats to Parti Warisan Sabah, a new regional party that PH is courting in Sabah, one of the two Malaysian Bornean states....
...Ms Suu Kyi spent most of the following 20 years under house arrest, while other leading NLD figures served long jail sentences....
...Sanusi believes that, with a man as intolerant of corruption as President Buhari, some at least will wind up in jail....
...The northeast wisely rejected a toothless regional assembly in 2004....
...Michael Peel is the FT’s Bangkok regional correspondent Photographs: Global Witness; Ben Marino...
...This is like threatening a judge that you will break out of jail unless your sentence is commuted. Yesterday, the court denied Argentina’s petition for review....
...Khodorkovsky is still in jail, found guilty of the new charges in 2010. Aleksanyan died in 2011, two years after being released from jail....
...Welfare cheats are liable to end up in jail; HMRC prefers to strike cosy, and confidential, repayment deals with wealthy individuals who break the law by hiding funds in secret Swiss bank accounts....
...Creep slowly for more than 100km from the Pacific cargo port of Buenaventura to Cali, a regional capital, behind container trucks struggling with washed-out roads....
...“The continued drive to press ahead with regional pay will be an economic disaster for the poorest regions of the UK, cementing the north-south divide.”...
...Hundreds languish in debtors’ jail, reminding residents of the risks in this frontier economy....
...State-run Korea National Oil Corporation, in a consortium with SK Energy, signed a $2.1bn production-sharing contract for the Bazian block with the Kurdish regional government in 2007....
...His reputation has been hampered by allegations of corruption brought in 2005, when a long-time associate was sentenced to a 15-year jail term for soliciting bribes on his behalf....
...Two-thirds of the centre-left regional government is under criminal investigation, according to politicians on the right, several of whom are also facing possible charges....
...Located in the city of Antigua, it once housed a governor’s residence, a jail, government offices and a mint....
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