List of Business articles
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Indian supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate outside the party office as state assembly votes are counted in Lucknow on March 11, 2017. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party claimed election victory in four Indian states, calling it a "historic mandate" that would take the country's politics in a new direction. / AFP PHOTO / SANJAY KANOJIA (Photo credit should read SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty Images) India’s Optimism Is a Welcome Antidote to Western Pessimism
Americans suffering a crisis of confidence about the future of their country's democratic institutions under President Donald Trump could use a dose of Indian-style optimism.
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trumpcrop Trump Hotel in Baku Partnered With ‘Notoriously Corrupt’ Oligarch Family With Ties to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
The latest conflict of interest headache for the president is a sketchy and failed hotel in Azerbaijan that’s got lawmakers worried.
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FP_podcast_article_artwork-1-globalthinkers Welcome to President Trump’s (Un)Ethical World
The 45th president of the United States has just been sworn in. Can the mountain of potential ethical violations that he is under investigation for bring him down?
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davos-crop World Economic Forum To Staff: Welcome To Davos. Here’s Your CHU.
Davos organizers eye putting up staff in temporary housing containers during talks on rising income inequality and social inclusion.
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parker Global Thinkers: Business Mogul Sean Parker
For infusing cancer research with business savvy.
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reindeer Watch: In Japan, Domino’s Pizza Tries (And Fails) Delivery-By-Reindeer
Domino’s wanted reindeer to deliver pizza, but the new helpers weren’t into any reindeer games.
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Lotte group chairman Shin Dong-Bin bows in apology during a press conference at the Lotte hotel in Seoul on August 11, 2015. The head of South Korea's retail and hotel giant Lotte Group vowed a sweeping reform with corporate governance, apologizing over a bitter family feud engufling the business conglomerate. The apology comes as the Lotte Group faces mounting attacks from news media and activists over its corporate governance and "greed". Squabbles for control of South Korea's family-run conglomerates, known as "chaebol", have long been staple plotline fare for the country's popular K-dramas, but the real-life Lotte dispute is setting new standards for in-fighting and intrigue. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images) The Myth of Chaebol Exceptionalism
Everyone wants to blame South Korea’s incestuous business culture for the recent failures of its massive conglomerates. But that’s not the reason they’re in a funk.
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An elderly Chinese (bottom) women rests on a sofa as people shop at an Ikea frurniture store in Beijing on August 15, 2011. Asia, including China and India, will be vulnerable if the US and Europe slip into another recession, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his annual policy speech, Lee warned it was possible the world would sink into another recession because of the debt crisis in Europe and the United States' economic woes that led to a landmark downgrade by Standard & Poor's of the country's top-notch credit ratings. AFP PHOTO / Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) IKEA to Elderly Chinese Singles: Get a Room
IKEA in Shanghai is tired of having elderly Chinese come to the store for blind dates.
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TOPSHOT - Renho, chosen for the new leader of the Democratic Party, raises her arm with party members at the end of their leadership election in Tokyo on September 15, 2016. Japan's main opposition party on September 15 chose a fiery former newscaster with Taiwanese roots as its new leader in its latest bid to reboot after losing power nearly four years ago. / AFP / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) Japan’s Summer of Women
Three women have recently risen to high political positions in Japan’s famously closed society, but is the country really ready to embrace openness and inclusion?
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An apple logo sit on a sign at Apple Inc.'s campus in Cork, Ireland, on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Speaking to lawmakers in Dublin last month, Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan insisted the country is no tax haven, after a congressional hearing in Washington focused attention on Apple Inc.'s maneuvers to minimize its tax bill through its operations in Cork in the south of Ireland. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images Life in Apple’s Ireland
The strange nature of living in a tax haven, where 26 percent GDP growth is accompanied by austerity and a homelessness crisis.
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GettyImages-532096436 Can China Buy Its Way Into Becoming the World’s Next Soccer Powerhouse?
Breaking transfer records is one thing. Fielding a quality team is another.
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Korengal_Valley_2003[1] But Will It Scale in Kabul?
As troops draw down in Afghanistan, a handful of ambitious U.S. veterans are launching start-ups in the country where they once went to war.
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Decoder_top-image Decoder: North Korea’s Maritime Industry
How U.N. sanctions targeting the Hermit Kingdom's shipping business awaken Pyongyang’s creative spirit.
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Landscape2 The Blood Rubies of Montepuez
Some 40 percent of the world’s rubies lie in one mining concession in Mozambique, where a troubling pattern of violence and death contradicts the claim of “responsibly sourced.”
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Asteroid_image1 The Asteroid Miner’s Guide to the Galaxy
U.S. companies are preparing to tap the solar system’s riches. But will they share the trillion-dollar deep-space market with hungry foreign competitors?
