Archive for May 15th, 2018
Business Briefs 15 May, 2018
* LDG Investment Company (LDG) will issue 28.79 million shares to pay a dividend at a 100- for-18 ratio for 2017. The firm is also seeking to issue two million shares under [...]
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AirAsia shares drop after CEO says sorry for backing ex-PM
Shares of regional budget airline AirAsia plunged Monday after its chief Tony Fernandes apologised for supporting defeated prime minister Najib Razak in a historic election [...]
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Most Asian markets rise after Wall St rally, ringgit sinks
Most Asia markets rose Monday as investors built on last week’s rally, with another healthy lead from Wall Street providing support, but oil prices retreated from their [...]
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HK’s Most Popular ETF Is Shorting the Whole Equity Market
A fund that makes money when Hong Kong stocks tumble has suddenly garnered a whole lot of interest. The CSOP Hang Seng Index Daily Inverse Product has attracted some $136 [...]
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HK named the most biodiverse city in Asia after global nature challenge
Hong Kong named the most biodiverse city in Asia after global nature challenge Hong Kong might be small, but it’s big on biodiversity. Just look at some government [...]
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Economics ministry to open new Invest Taiwan office in June
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) will launch a new office in June to attract more foreign investments and foreign professionals to Taiwan. The Invest Taiwan office [...]
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Taiwan military to expedite production of new navy corvettes
The minister of National Defense said on Monday, that the Navy anticipates add 11 new ‘Tuo River’ class corvettes to the fleet, construction on the first three [...]
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Isolated and threatened, Taiwan boosts domestic arms makers
Standing on his company’s sprawling campus in central Taiwan, Lin Nan-juh says he’s able to make any plane his island’s government calls for. “We can [...]
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Taiwan President sends condolences over Indonesia bombings, Paris attack
President Tsai Ing-wen offered her sympathy to everyone impacted by the terror attacks that occurred in Indonesia and France over the weekend President Tsai Ing-wen (???) [...]
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Peace talks ignite land buying frenzy along Korea’s fortified border
Forget Seoul’s posh Gangnam district. With North Korea pledging to reduce tensions and renew ties with its southern neighbour, South Korea’s hottest property [...]
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Ahead of Trump-Kim talks, Koreans fear their prisoners will be forgotten
As he welcomed home Americans freed from North Korean labour camps on Thursday, President Donald Trump thanked Kim Jong Un for being “excellent to these three [...]
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US will need to give Kim Jong Un security assurances: Pompeo
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the United States will need to “provide security assurances” to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un if the adversaries [...]
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Trump will ‘size Kim Jong Un up’ when they meet: John Bolton
National Security Adviser John Bolton said one advantage of President Donald Trump’s fast-approaching meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is that Trump will be [...]
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Pompeo signals Trump seeking long-term agreement with N Korea’s Kim, in summit
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to destroy his country’s nuclear-testing site is “a good first [...]
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US ready to offer N Korea security assurances, investment: Pompeo
The United States is prepared to offer North Korea security assurances and bountiful private investment if it makes the strategic choice to give up its nuclear weapons, US [...]
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