By John Biju and Yantoultra Ngui (Reuters) -Singapore’s Aelios, owned by billionaire couple Gordon and Celine Tang, on Thursday launched a mandatory general offer to buy shares in Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust that valued the REIT at S$3.39 billion ($2.53 billion). The investment holding company, which already owns almost a third of the REIT, …
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By Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam is vulnerable to becoming the new Trump administration’s next target for tariffs as data shows its trade surplus with the United States ballooning, industry executives and analysts said. The Communist-run country, home to large industrial operations of U.S. multinationals such as Apple, Google, Nike and Intel, has the …
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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called on his supporters to hold a rally next week and threatened to start a civil disobedience movement days after his party led a deadly protest march in Islamabad. In a post on X on Thursday, Khan asked supporters to converge …
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(Reuters) -Britain will think very carefully about retaliating if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration hits the country with fresh tariffs, the country’s business and trade minister Jonathan Reynolds told the FT in an interview published on Friday. Trump has floated blanket tariffs of 10% 20% on virtually all imports when he returns to the …
By Cynthia Kim and Yena Park SEOUL (Reuters) – Minutes after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday night, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades, his stunned finance minister knew his priorities: throw everything at defending the currency. By around 11 p.m., Choi Sang-mok, who was among the …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced on Thursday new delays in the U.S. space agency’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, pushing back the next two planned missions amid potential policy changes under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Nelson told a news conference at …
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By Mike Spector, Allison Lampert and David Shepardson (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty to fraud in the wake of two fatal 737 MAX crashes, faulting a diversity and inclusion provision in the deal. Boeing did not immediately comment. The U.S. Department of Justice, which brokered the plea bargain …
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(Reuters) – Work will continue on the BRICS settlement system despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% import duties on countries that try to undermine the dollar, the RIA news agency cited a senior Russian official as saying on Friday. Trump last week demanded that BRICS member countries commit to not creating a …
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s Xinjiang Cotton Association said that international brands should give “full respect and trust” to Xinjiang cotton, following an executive’s comment last week that clothing company Uniqlo does not take supply from the region. The association called on brands like Uniqlo to resume the use of cotton from China’s far western …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s special warfare commander said he will refuse to implement any new order for martial law, media reports quoted him as saying. Kwak Jong-geun, the special warfare commander, also said the then defense minister had issued an order to “drag out lawmakers” who came to parliament to vote to lift the …
