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today.westlaw.com | ISMAIL SHAKIL |Mike Stone |Howard Goller |Clarence Fernandez
(Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the termination of several information technology services contracts valued at $5.1 billion, including companies such as Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte, according to a Pentagon...
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gurutrade.com | Leika Kihara |Clarence Fernandez |Jamie Freed
Survey shows 86.7% of households see prices up a year from now
Households expect prices to rise by an average 12.2%
Households spending more on food, less on leisure - survey
Data among factors BOJ to scrutinise at April 30-May 1 meeting
TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japanese households' inflation expectations heightened in the three months to March, a Bank of Japan survey showed on Friday, keeping the central bank under pressure to raise interest rates further.
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2 weeks ago | 
gurutrade.com | Patturaja Murugaboopathy |Gaurav S Dogra |Clarence Fernandez
April 8 (Reuters) - Japanese investors turned net sellers of overseas bonds in March for the first time in three months, fuelled by a decline in U.S. yields, but they ramped up purchases of foreign equities, aided by retail investment flows.
Japanese investors sold 902.7 billion yen ($6.14 billion) in long-term foreign bonds in March, reversing February’s net purchases of 3.3 trillion yen, data from the finance ministry showed.
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2 weeks ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Clarence Fernandez |Arpan Chaturvedi |Aditya Kalra
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The operator of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has challenged a New Delhi court's order to remove statements from its page that the court said defamed a domestic news website, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said...
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3 weeks ago | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Andrea Shalal |David Shepardson |Clarence Fernandez |Sonali Paul
U.S. flag and TikTok logo are seen in this illustration taken January 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo)By Andrea Shalal and David Shepardson | REUTERSPresident Donald Trump said a deal with TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the short video app used by 170 million Americans would be struck before a deadline on Saturday.
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3 weeks ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Clarence Fernandez |Arpan Chaturvedi |Aditya Kalra
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has criticised Elon Musk's X for wrongly labelling as a "censorship portal" an official website that allows tech companies to be notified about harmful online content, court papers reviewed by Reuters showed on Friday.
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gurutrade.com | Yuka Obayashi |Clarence Fernandez
TOKYO, March 24 (Reuters) - Japan's crude steel output fell 8.5 % in February from a year earlier for a 12th straight monthly decline, as demand from the construction sector stayed weak, an industry body said on Monday.
Output, which is not seasonally adjusted, dropped to 6.4 million metric tons, the lowest monthly figure since July 2020, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said. It was also down 5.7% from January.
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1 month ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Clarence Fernandez |Jessie Pang
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong passed a cybersecurity law on Wednesday to regulate operators of critical infrastructure, forcing them to strengthen computer systems and report cybersecurity incidents or risk penalties of up to HK$5 million...
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bizcommunity.com | David Stanway |Clarence Fernandez |Steve Kretzmann |Shan Radcliffe
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The weather in some of the world's most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned by the charity WaterAid showed on Wednesday, 12 March. People walk through water at a flooded area affected by rising sea levels and land subsidence in North Jakarta, Indonesia, 20 November 2024.
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2 months ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Leika Kihara |Jamie Freed |Clarence Fernandez
INFLATION HIGH Japan's core inflation has hit a 19-month high of 3.2%, leaving the Bank of Japan with little choice but to tighten its monetary belt while households wrestle with skyrocketing food and energy prices.
