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03-Oct-18 Construction of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative-backed Jakarta-Bandung rail line is back on track, with contractors confident it will enter operation in 2021. Its most significant benefit is to cut transit time from five hours to 36 minutes. [image: HKTDC]
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01-Oct-18 Candy, the Italian family-owned appliance manufacturer is in the news after being sold to Chinese electronics giant Haier, based in the Shandong port city of Qingdao, for EUR475 mn, as Haier looks to crack the European market. [image: Candy]
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27-Sep-18 Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has announced that it plans to turn a section of its northwestern coast into a magnet for international tourists, as part of a broader push to diversify the economy away from oil. [image: Project Mena]
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27-Sep-18 US billionaire Philip Anschutz’s sports and entertainment company AEG and Thai shopping centre developer The Mall Group plan to invest USD309 mn to build two multi-purpose stadiums in the Thai capital, including one billed as the country’s largest. [image: Isa Foltin / Getty Images]
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18-Sep-18 Alibaba chief executive Daniel Zhang is banking on the company's New Retail model, where online and offline retail are integrated, allowing customers of Alibbaba's chain of Hema supermarkets to buy online from the chain's physical stores. [image: South China Morning Post]
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