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Munjals to buy Honda stake in JV
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Munjals to buy Honda stake in JV
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: A series of offmarket transactions will see Japanese auto major Honda exit its 25-year-old joint venture with the Munjals in Hero Honda with the entire deal likely to be wrapped up in the next six months. The deal, which will be executed in two phases, will see the Munjal family - led by ...
Gold necklace with earrings and ring -Jewellery-India
(photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Rising gold prices trigger mining rush in India
The Times Of India
KOLKATA: As gold prices reach record highs, it is adding new lustre to prospects for gold mining. While moves are afoot to revive state-owned Bharat Gold Mines (BGML), closed since 2001, Deccan Gold Mines, the country’s only listed private gold miner, is also stepping on the gas to start gold prod...
Anchor tenant for market
The Star
| INSTEAD of waiting for a suitor, the Perak Government has taken the initiative to look for an anchor tenant for Ipoh's central market. | Local Government Committee chairman Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon said he would ask the Ipoh City Council, which owns ...
China funding horse trading
The Himalayan
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Chongzuo border town links China with ASEAN market
China Daily
2010-09-04 09:47:32.0Huang ZhaohuaChongzuo border town links China with ASEAN marketguangxi, vietnam border trade center, economy,11032501Two Sessions in Guangxi2@webnews/enpproperty--> | Puzhai, a township of Chongzuo in south China's Guangxi Zhuang...
Hui urges cooperatives to foster more global alliances
China Daily
2010-09-04 09:37:01.0Yang NingHui urges cooperatives to foster more global alliancesCooperative,Asia-Pacific,economic integration,ICA11010460Economy2@webnews/enpproperty--> | BEIJING - Cooperatives from the Asia-Pacific region have an integral role t...
Pedestrians wait to cross a street in front of an electric board in Tokyo as Japan's key stock index plunged a stunning 9.6 percent Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 to close out its worst week in history. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbled 881.06 points to 8,276.43, its lowest since May 2003. It was its biggest one-day percentage loss since the stock market crash of October
AP / Katsumi Kasahara
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks, dollar rise on signs recovery on track
The Guardian
* Risk assets rally on jobs report, falter on other data * Dollar rallies versus yen after U.S. jobs data * U.S. bonds fall sharply, then pare losses on ISM report * Oil flip-flops...
Philippine Airlines terminal area seen in Ninoy Aquino International Airport ( NAIA ) located in Pasay City , Philippines , August 29 , 2009.
WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
New airports, LRT lines set in 2011
Inquirer
| Most Read Business RP may miss goal of reducing poverty by half New airports, LRT lines set in 2011 Burger King OKs buyout as it struggles against rival Gokongwei unit eyes 30 bu...
Metrobank Divisoria CDO Branch
WN / Arturo Ubaub
Stocks soar to 32-month high
Inquirer
| PHILIPPINE STOCKS soared to their best level in nearly three years Friday as upbeat global markets and strong corporate earnings lured more foreign investors into the local bours...
Power, weather fears grow for quake-hit farmers
NZ Herald
12:30 PM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink | Looming bad weather and a fear that electricity may be out for days is worrying Canterbury farmers in the wake of this morning's quake. | A release from Federated Farmers just issued sai...
Coal India public offer gets Crisil's top grading
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | This is the | first IPO of a | public sector undertaking to bag this recognition | KOLKATA: Crisil has assigned a top-grading to the proposed share-sale of public sector Coal India Ltd (CIL), giving it a Crisil initial publi...
Thailand Convention organises road show
The Hindu
| CHENNAI: Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) has organised "TCEB-India Exhibition Roadshow 2010" as part of its road show to promote business opportunities in ASEAN through the platform of exhibitions and trade shows in Thailand. TCEB al...
Economy
Pedestrians are reflected on an electric market board in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 20, 2008. Asian stock markets advanced Monday, with South Korean shares gaining for the first time in four days as the government moved to shore up the country's banking system amid the global credit crisis. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average rose almost 3.6 percent to 9,005.59. In Tokyo, shares rose amid hopes for better-than-expected corporate earnin
(photo: AP / Katsumi Kasahara)
What's crimping Japan?
Money Week
| Currency traders may talk of the yen soaring to a new record against the dollar, but no one is getting excited about Japanese stocks. Indeed, the Nikkei 225 index has fallen even as the yen has strengthened. "It may be overdoing it to say that the strong yen has caused the stockmarket to weaken," says John Higgins of Capital Economics. But there'...
Political
Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks at the national press club in Canberra, Australia
(photo: AP / Mark Graham)
Swing-vote MP hints at possible Labor deal
Gulf News
| Canberra:  One of three independent MPs needed by Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard to form a minority government hinted yesterday he could negotiate on Labor's mining profits tax he has previously opposed. | Maverick outback MP Bob Katter gave Gillard and conservative Opposition Leader Tony Abbott a "wish list" of 20 priori...



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