Hints and tips:
...Hun Manet also met Li Kuo, chair of China Metro Group, which is interested in building light-rail connections to the Siem Reap airport and another under construction in Phnom Penh....
...Blavatnik was linked with a bid for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 2010....
...This is not just Silicon Valley hype. WhatsApp a photo of a prescription to your local pharmacist, and medications arrive at your door....
...Lord Ben Houchen, metro mayor of Tees Valley and the poster boy for the Tories’ levelling up agenda, warned that the prime minister would have to strive harder to retain voters who supported the Conservatives...
...These have become the kind of live rails on which our politics has changed very much....
...Job moves Sir Jon Thompson, head of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council, is in the running to become chair of the High Speed 2 rail project....
...About 60 per cent of all Shinkansen rail yards in Japan are located in flood-prone areas....
...One thing to start: rail group Canadian Pacific is set to present a new, higher offer to buy Kansas City Southern, worth about $31bn, including debt, in a move that is set to revive the takeover battle for...
...Less than two weeks later, as preparations were being made for Joe Biden’s inauguration as president, Airbnb cancelled all bookings in the US capital’s metro area....
...Amazon sends legal notice to India's Future Group over Reliance deal (Reuters) Lex Letter from Seoul: Huawei and the new way (Lex) Saudi wealth fund explores investing in grocer Lulu (BBG) Silicon Valley...
...The large “pop” incited Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital, to rail against the process....
...In a sign of just how far his administration is going off the rails, Trump said he expects the US government to receive a portion of any sale price because Washington would be helping the deal by allowing...
...(WSJ) + (FT) Suspicion in the Valley Trade war tensions between the US and China have fuelled a climate of suspicion around Chinese nationals who have made their careers in Silicon Valley....
...Mr Street is expected to stress the urgency: he and Ben Houchen, the Tory mayor for Tees Valley, who were both elected in 2017, face the voters again in May 2020 and want to be able to point to concrete...
...When Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his Budget on Wednesday, it will owe much to a bold experiment that has been going on largely under the radar: the creation of metro-mayors....
...(GQ) News round-up French insurer Covéa set to buy PartnerRe for $9bn (FT) Sysco Corp explores tie-up with Germany’s Metro (FT) Software company $1.4bn loan deal shelved on virus turmoil (FT) British...
...The model is provided by London Overground, Tyne and Wear Metro and Merseyrail in Liverpool, Britain’s most punctual railway....
...Some leading German executives also worry that Silicon Valley tech companies could swallow up significant parts of German industry because of their immense scale....
...Metro Bank has started its search for a new chairman to replace its founder Vernon Hill....
...I’ll also keep the relief for rail, for domestic heating, and there will be no impact on fishing....
...So far, the reality seems more modest — an underground rail link between downtown Chicago and O’Hare Airport and a proposed 3.6-mile “dugout loop” to ferry Los Angeles baseball fans to Dodger Stadium....
...But don’t call it Maple Valley. (FT) Size isn’t everything As a titan of the M&A advisory business, Goldman Sachs has typically targeted blockbuster deals....
...“We don’t support unfettered discretion in any agency,” said AT&T policy chief Len Cali, saying it was the job of Congress to “set the guard rails”....
...Americans invented modern antitrust policy, and love to rail against “statist” old Europe....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 24 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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