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Thai business shuns regime, invests overseas
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/06/2017
» Thai businesses invested a record $13 billion (442 billion baht) abroad in 2016, dwarfing inflows of $1.6 billion (54.4 billion baht), according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Entrepreneur is trying to cure Hong Kong’s meat addiction
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/06/2017
» HONG KONG -- David Yeung believes that meat is the new tobacco. But the long-time vegetarian and practicing Buddhist won’t try to get you to stop eating meat. He just wants you to consider eating less.
Macron tightens grip on France after Assembly vote
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/06/2017
» PARIS -- President Emmanuel Macron expanded his control of French politics as voters put his party on track to a sweeping majority in the National Assembly in the first round of legislative elections.
'Dead woman walking': Weakened PM May hangs on
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/06/2017
» LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May's weakness was underlined on Sunday as she announced limited changes to her cabinet before a showdown with her Conservative Party's lawmakers on Monday.
US environment chief exits G7 climate talks early
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/06/2017
» ROME -- US environment chief Scott Pruitt is being recalled from Group of Seven climate talks in Italy. Mr Pruitt, who as Environmental Protection Agency administrator successfully campaigned for the US to quit the landmark Paris climate agreement, will leave Bologna for a meeting with President Donald Trump just hours after arriving Sunday, according to a spokesman for the G-7 talks, Davide Russo.
May's future clouded as Brexit election gamble backfires
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/06/2017
» LONDON -- Theresa May’s future as Britain’s prime minister was thrown into doubt after her gamble to call an early election backfired spectacularly just 10 days before Brexit negotiations are due to start.
Southeast Asia losing best and brightest to richer nations
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/06/2017
» MANILA -- Nyl Patangan, a nursing graduate from the Philippines, left his native land in search of a better life. Now working in a Chicago hospital after a stint in Dubai, he's supporting his parents back home and is buying his mother a Toyota Vios.
RHB Bank, AMMB said to seek nod for merger talk
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/06/2017
» KULA LUMPUR - RHB Bank Bhd, Malaysia's fourth-largest lender by assets, and AMMB Holdings Bhd are planning to pursue talks to merge, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Russia vows to block IS escape from Syrian lair
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/06/2017
» MOSCOW -- Russia vowed to prevent the escape of Islamic State fighters from their self-declared capital in Raqqa, under siege by US-backed forces, after thwarting two attempts by the jihadists to break through toward Syrian government-controlled territory.
UK pound falls with Conservatives’ poll numbers
Bloomberg News, Published on 31/05/2017
» LONDON -- The pound declined after a projection showing Theresa May’s Conservative Party may fall short of majority in next week’s election raised the spectre of a hung parliament.