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Tokyo Stock Exchange Chief Works to Fend Off Rivals, Attract Investors

With the Japanese stock market at 16-month lows, foreign investors fleeing the market and the strong yen decimating the country's leading exporters, the Tokyo Stock Exchange is fighting to remain relevant and compete with its Asian rivals - especially those in China.

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Afghans Move to Bail Out Kabul Bank

KABUL-Afghanistan's government inched closer to bailing out the country's largest bank, setting aside hundreds of millions of dollars that could be used to keep Kabul Bank solvent, officials said.

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Obama to Link Tax Plan, Hiring

With the job market stuck in neutral, the Obama administration is moving toward using the revenue from expiring tax cuts for the wealthy to finance about $35 billion of tax cuts for small businesses and workers, administration and congressional officials said Friday.

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Shinhan Bank in complaint on parent’s head

Shinhan Bank has filed a complaint with Seoul authorities against the chief executive of Shinhan Financial Group, its parent and South Korea's largest financial company by market value, alleging embezzlement and breach of trust.

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RBS in move to cut further 3,500 jobs

Royal Bank of Scotland is axing another 3,500 jobs, taking to almost 27,000 the number of staff cut since Stephen Hester took over as chief executive of the troubled UK bank less than two years ago.

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Investigative Shortfall

Many news outlets are doing far less accountability reporting than in the past, bad news indeed for the public. New nonprofit investigative ventures have emerged, but they can't pick up the slack by themselves.


By Mary Walton


Mary Walton (
marywalton2000@yahoo.com) is a former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her most recent book, "A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot," was published by Palgrave Macmillan in August.

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Supertax on bankers failed, says Darling

Alistair Darling admitted on Wednesday that Britain's controversial supertax on bankers' bonuses had failed to change the industry's behaviour over pay as "imaginative" financiers devised ways to avoid it.

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Illegal Immigration to U.S. Slows Sharply

Illegal immigration to the U.S. has slowed sharply since 2007, with the bleak U.S. job market apparently discouraging people from heading north.

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Rosatom launches global charm offensive

Rosatom, Russia's state-owned atomic power corporation, has launched an international charm offensive as the country's most secretive and controversial industry attempts to come in from the cold.

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Meat price surge fuels fears of food inflation

Global meat prices have hit a 20-year high as robust demand from emerging countries has coincided with a drop in production by exporters such as the US and Australia, fuelling concerns about rising food inflation.

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07.09.10
06.09.10
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No place for junk food in business news world

Coghill

Print editions today are dramatically going down in their circulations the same as in advertisement revenues. And business editions belong to the print mediums that suffer the most.
The readers and advertisers today are more and more switching to the Internet. Financial crisis even made the situation worsen. In September the oldest Asian economic magazine The Far Eastern Economic Review, published in Hong Kong since 1946, went out of business. BusinessWeek magazine, a respectable edition which is distributed in 140 countries worldwide, was offered for sale in July because of dramatic decline in revenues and readership.  And so on, and so on...

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