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JR East gets OK to raise fares for Tokyo's popular loop line, other routes in March
Published on 04/08/2025
» East Japan Railway Co has said it has received government approval to raise fares by an average 7.1% from March, the company's first blanket hike since 1987 when it was created from the privatisation of the national railway company.
Forgetting what democracy is for and all about
Oped, Published on 10/07/2025
» On June 2, I got a sense of history coming full circle in the Polish town of Sopot, on the Baltic Sea just a few kilometres from the Gdańsk Shipyard. Sharing a stage at the Plenary Session of the European Financial Congress with Lech Wałęsa, the legendary trade unionist who led the 1980 Solidarity strike at the Lenin Shipyard and later became Poland's first post-communist president, I felt I was witnessing the end of an era.
Thai tycoon's Frasers seeks to take REIT private for $1 billion
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/05/2025
» SINGAPORE — Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi's Frasers Property Limited is seeking to take a real estate investment trust (REIT) private at a valuation of S$1.37 billion (US$1.1 billion), its second attempt to buy out the unit.
Reform needs more than just a chainsaw
News, Published on 10/03/2025
» Billionaire and Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) czar Elon Musk and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could not be more different. But they share a stated common goal: cutting red tape and reducing the burden of government on businesses.
Thai casino push ‘a big threat’, says Philippine gaming chief
Published on 26/02/2025
» Thailand’s plan to legalise casinos is a “big threat” to the Philippines, which is now Asia’s second-largest gambling hub and is looking to set a revenue record in 2025, says the head of the country’s gaming agency.
JR East to increase fares by 7%
Kyodo News, Published on 07/12/2024
» TOKYO — East Japan Railway Company said Friday it has applied to the transport ministry to raise its train fares by an average 7.1% beginning March 2026, its first blanket fare hike since the company's establishment in 1987.
Fujimori's Peru and the price of neoliberal success
Oped, Published on 10/10/2024
» The script of Latin American politics too often reads like a "dictator novel," and on Sept 11, another chapter drew to a close with the death of Alberto Fujimori. As the president who most defined -- and divided -- modern Peru, his legacy remains a topic of heated debate. One version of Fujimori's epitaph would commend his economics and condemn his politics, but the deeper lesson his life story offers may be that it is impossible to separate the two.
Follow-ups needed
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/09/2024
» Re: "Seed bomb threat to forest ecology", (Editorial, Sept 2), "Hilltop plot seized after landslides", (BP, 2 Sept) & "Phuket Buddha site ordered closed due to landslide risks", (BP, Sept 3).
Donald Tusk: recent EU bigwig back in command in Poland
AFP, Published on 13/12/2023
» WARSAW - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who ousted the conservatives from power, is a veteran politician and former EU chief with a passion for football and roots in the anti-communist movement.
The risks that are threatening India's rise
News, Published on 23/11/2023
» A few decades ago, India was a relatively minor player on the world stage. Despite its size and vast population, it grappled with what became pejoratively known as the "Hindu rate of growth," with GDP increasing at a tepid annual pace of 4%, or 2% per capita from 1947, when it gained independence, until the 1980s.