UK faces food, fuel and drugs shortages in no-deal Brexit
LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters): Britain will face shortages of fuel, food and medicine if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal, jamming ports and requiring a hard border in Ireland, official government documents leaked to the Sunday Times show.The Times said the forecasts compiled by the Cabinet Office...
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Trump intervention triggered EPA’s surprise biofuel waiver decision
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters): A phone call from US President Donald Trump last week ended a nearly two-month-long review of the nation's biofuels programme, three sources familiar with the matter said, with the White House siding in favor of oil refiners over corn growers.Trump gave Andrew Wheeler, head of the...
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No more spending excuses for Merkel as investment bottlenecks ease
BERLIN, Aug 18 (Reuters): German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fended off growing calls for more fiscal stimulus by citing the slow outflow of existing federal funds - but data suggests the money is indeed being used up as local authority bottlenecks gradually clear.With Europe's largest economy on the brink of...
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High-end rebrand makes life sweet for Japan’s ‘ice farmers’
NIKKO (Japan), Aug 18 (AFP): In a mountainous area north of Tokyo, a priest blows a conch shell as Yuichiro Yamamoto bows and thanks the nature gods for this year's "good harvest": natural ice.Yamamoto is one of Japan's few remaining "ice farmers", eschewing the ease of refrigeration for open-air pools...
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Executive Chairman of BEPZA Major General S M Salahuddin Islam
Executive Chairman of Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) Major General S M Salahuddin Islam along with other high officials and employees of the company are seen at a milad mahfil organised on the National Mourning Day on the BEPZA complex premises in Dhaka
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Weekly policy snapshot of Chinese economy
BEIJING, Aug 18 (Xinhua): The following are the key moves taken by policymakers in the past week to enhance China's economic strength and sustainability:China's banking and intellectual property regulators have decided to jointly boost the use of intellectual property (IP) as a financing tool to support the development of innovative...
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