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Thailand's Minor Hotels entering Japanese market with Royal Holdings JV

Thailand's Minor Hotels entering Japanese market with R...

The 50-50 joint venture aims to have 21 hotels in Japan by 2035.

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Bain ends tussle with KKR for Fuji Soft by giving up bid

Bain ends tussle with KKR for Fuji Soft by giving up bid

The public battle underscored how quickly the private equity landscape has been ...

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Japan’s economic boomlet continues with strong fourth-quarter growth

Japan’s economic boomlet continues with strong fourth-q...

Gross domestic product grew 2.8% in the three months to December, compared with ...

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Xi hosts summit with Jack Ma and other private sector leaders

Xi hosts summit with Jack Ma and other private sector l...

The meeting signals Beijing’s support for the private sector after years of turm...

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Trump tariffs loom large in South Korea's 'steel city'

Trump tariffs loom large in South Korea's 'steel city'

South Korea was the fourth largest exporter of the metal to the United States la...

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DeepSeek drives $1.3 trillion China stock rally as funds pile in

DeepSeek drives $1.3 trillion China stock rally as fund...

DeepSeek’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence is helping drive a rotation o...

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Japanese FM asks U.S. counterpart to exempt Tokyo from Trump tariffs

Japanese FM asks U.S. counterpart to exempt Tokyo from ...

The foreign minister also said that he had broached the issue of Trump’s planned...

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DeepSeek sparks investor pessimism on SoftBank's $500 billion Stargate push

DeepSeek sparks investor pessimism on SoftBank's $500 b...

DeepSeek’s low-cost AI model is begging the question of whether such massive spe...

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Trump says new tariffs on autos coming around April 2

Trump says new tariffs on autos coming around April 2

The auto threat offers to put some of the biggest brands in Japan, Germany and S...

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U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel were blindsided by Trump investment talk

U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel were blindsided by Trump in...

The proposed investment following Donald Trump's meeting with Prime Minister Shi...

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TSMC considers running Intel’s U.S. factories after Trump team request

TSMC considers running Intel’s U.S. factories after Tru...

Trump officials raised the idea of a deal between the two companies in recent me...

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Xi to chair symposium attended by Jack Ma and other Chinese business leaders, sources say

Xi to chair symposium attended by Jack Ma and other Chi...

Xi rarely chairs symposiums about the private sector, and the event underscores ...

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Hedge fund startup that replaced analysts with AI beats the market

Hedge fund startup that replaced analysts with AI beats...

Minotaur Capital, which has no analysts on staff, returned 13.7% in the six mont...

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Assets of Japan’s wealthiest jump to a record $3 trillion

Assets of Japan’s wealthiest jump to a record $3 trillion

Between 2011 and 2023, the wealth of Japan’s rich more than doubled and super ri...

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Japan begins talks with U.S. to sound out Trump tariff specifics

Japan begins talks with U.S. to sound out Trump tariff ...

Trump has singled out Japan and South Korea as nations he believes are taking ad...

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Nippon Steel wants 100% of U.S. Steel, not a minority stake, report says

Nippon Steel wants 100% of U.S. Steel, not a minority s...

Last week, the deal appeared effectively dead after a meeting between Prime Mini...