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Swedish furniture giant Ikea is pushing for building affordable housing in Worthing, in partnership with BoKlok developer. The furniture giant is turning to Worthing, a southern town in England with a population of 110,000. Ikea is a popular brand for cost-effective...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) of the Philippines will be deporting Qian Bingxu, a Chinese national wanted for investment scams in China. The Philippines News Agency (PNA) reported that Qian has been hiding in the country to escape charges...
US multinational tech and retail company Amazon pledges to take part in reducing carbon emission and orders 100,000 electric delivery vans from a Michigan-based startup. Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced Thursday, Sept. 19, the company’s plan to shift to...
Investment giants BlackRock and Vanguard, along with other Wall Street’s largest asset management companies, failed to live up to their climate commitments after opposing shareholder climate resolutions of the risk mitigation. According to a report from The Guardian, influential firms...
Apple is going for another venture, taking on Amazon, Disney, and Netflix with its TV+ video streaming service for $4.99 a month. The company announced last March 2019 its move to launch a video-streaming service that will be called Apple...
The Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently increased its efforts to stop the activities of the Kapa-Community Ministry International. This comes amidst allegations that the organization is once again operating its investment Kapa scam under a new name,...
Philippine legislators in the House of Representatives recently supported revisions to the Republic Act 7042 or the Foreign Investments Act (FIA), says ABS-CBN News. The law covers investments in the country made by non-local entities. With a winning vote of...
Kim Kardashian’s news shapewear line, Skims, made a record-breaking amount of $2 million in just 2 minutes. The line launched online last Thursday, September 11, 2019. According to Style Caster, Skims’ launch broke the record of Spanx. When Spanx launched...
Nigeria’s first digital-only bank Kuda receives pre-seed funding of $1.6 million led by Haresh Aswani, after being granted a banking license from the Central Bank. This new funding marks the company’s beta launch, which will offer a full-service digital bank....
A few months before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics rolls, luxury property developers and hotels are already increasing in number to accommodate thousands of athletes and visitors all over the world. The Wall Street Journal reports that Okura Tokyo hotel, one...

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