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Bloomberg News, Published on 06/11/2018
» SYDNEY: Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he’s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200 billion-plus in savings.
Bloomberg News, Published on 31/05/2018
» BEIJING: Airbnb Inc's founders were moments away from merging their China business with local competitor Tujia in January 2017. Executives and investors spent hours hashing out a deal. Preliminary term sheets were drawn up. Then in the final hour of negotiations, Airbnb pulled out.
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/11/2017
» OTTAWA: The push to salvage a Pacific-rim trade pact will come to a head this week as nations diverge on whether it should be preserved, abandoned or renegotiated from scratch after President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the deal.
Bloomberg News, Published on 16/10/2017
» TOKYO: Japan’s corporate enfant terrible Takafumi Horie built one of the country’s most successful internet businesses, stood for parliament, went to prison and started a space company that aims to put the country’s first privately funded rocket into orbit. Now he has a new frontier: cattle.
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/05/2017
» WASHINGTON - The Republican president of the United States said he'd be "honoured" to meet with North Korea's leader under the right conditions. That he thinks the country may need an economic "stimulus" package. Or possibly a gas-tax hike for better roads. Maybe even break up the big banks. And certainly a health care bill even more generous than Obamacare for people with pre-existing conditions.
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/10/2015
» JAKARTA -- Having promised to extinguish forest fires in Riau in western Indonesia by early October, President Joko Widodo jetted into Sumatra island last week for a progress check. The smoke was so thick his plane couldn’t land, forcing him back to the capital.
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/08/2015
» A sweet deal for American sugar farmers is compounding delays in a proposed trade agreement affecting 40% of the world’s economy.
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/08/2015
» The baht’s descent to a six-year low as investors flee is making it harder for the Bank of Thailand to revive an economy beset by an El Nino-induced drought.
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/07/2015
» By banning alcohol sales near universities and technical colleges, Thailand is putting the nation at the forefront of efforts in Asia to curb booze consumption.
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/07/2015
» MANILA — On a clear night, the Filipinos who live on Pagasa Island — a speck in the vast South China Sea — can see the floodlights from giant Chinese cranes working around the clock, dredging sand to build on a nearby reef.