Thailand's Central Group Expects Online Surge Through JD Pact

Central Group and JD are competing in an increasingly crowded market, with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. expanding in Southeast Asia through Lazada while Amazon.com Inc. kicked off with a beachhead in Singapore last year. Southeast Asia is home to more than 600 million people and the region's
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Auckland house prices continue to rise but at the lowest rate in five years, according to new data from Barfoot & Thompson. Managing director of the real estate firm Peter Thompson said the market had been “reined in” from previous rapid price increases and had settled into a stable trading environment
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You'd think the Indian economy had returned to rosy health. It seems to have recovered from two enormous disruptions — Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision just over a year ago to withdraw 86 percent of the currency in circulation, and the poorly-planned rollout in the middle of 2017 of a new
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Auckland house prices rose by the lowest annual rate in five years in 2017, new data from Barfoot & Thompson shows. Peter Thompson, managing director of the Auckland real estate agency, said the market had been “reined in” from rapid price rises and had settled into a more stable environment.
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Celgene Corp. is nearing an accord to acquire closely held Impact Biomedicines Inc. to expand its presence in oncology, according to people familiar with the matter. An agreement could be announced as early as Monday, said the people, who asked not to be identified because talks are private.
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Let me be lazy and dodge an attempt at prognostication by offering up a challenge: a Southern California do-it-yourself home-price outlook! This column will walk you through what I think are 11 key local variables that could impact the two bottom-line factors to any market's health: a house hunter's
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The head of Australia's largest agricultural lender, National Australia Bank's Khan Horne, says the rural property market is running hotter than ever before because of strong fundamentals and low interest rates but, with a royal commission into banking, he is calling on tighter qualifications for anyone
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Sydney (AP) — Dangerous heat is roasting parts of Australia with temperatures that haven't been seen in decades. The temperature in Sydney hit an almost 80-year high of. 47.3 degrees Celsius (117 Fahrenheit) on Sunday — a sharp contrast to the bitter cold that has gripped much of the U.S..
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Colorado's Eagle Co. real estate market cracks $2B mark. Originally … (AP) — Real estate sales in the Vail area of Colorado in 2017 have cracked $2 billion, with a month's worth of sales still to be counted. … But through November, the value of all real estate sales in Eagle County was $2.055 billion.
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U.K. consumers curbed their spending for the first time in five years in 2017 as surging inflation and falling real wages took their toll on high street retailers. Visa's U.K. consumer spending index slipped 0.3 percent last year from 2016. It also fell an annual 1 percent in December, the crucial Christmas
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Only 282 mortgage-to-rent cases have been completed since the scheme launched six years ago. The scheme, which began in 2012, helps borrowers in long-term mortgage arrears to stay in their homes by selling the property to an approved housing body, with the owners then becoming tenants.
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MALCOLM Turnbull and senior government ministers' claims that federal Labor's negative gearing policies would “smash” the Australian housing market … ABC reports that Treasury provided advice to government in early 2016 that the biggest impact on housing prices would come from “uncertainty
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Newport One Stop Shop Gives A Lending Hand To Dexter Man. Error loading player: No playable sources found. By Alyssa Thurlow |. Posted: Sun 6:42 PM, Jan 07, 2018 |. Updated: Sun 6:45 PM, Jan 07, 2018. NEWPORT, Maine (WABI) – It's that time of year, where we are all constantly digging out our
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More notable recent Daimler AG (ETR:DAI) news were published by: Bloomberg.com which released: “Geely Should Dump Daimler for Hyundai” on December 14, 2017, also Bloomberg.com with their article: “Volkswagen's Stock Rebound Leaves Daimler and BMW in the Dust” published on December
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“I understand what they're trying to do for their cities and their states and their taxpayers,” said Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, during a Bloomberg Television interview Friday. “We at the federal government still have to collect revenue.” The state actions and Cohn's response suggest a
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AECOM Corporate Financial Analyst – Global Real Estate Finance USA – California Los Angeles This position can based at our Century City or Downtown L.A., California office. We are seeking a Financial Analyst to play an important role in the Corporate Finance department of a global Fortune 150
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley during a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Jan. 5, 2018. Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley called an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to focus on
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LOVELAND — Scottsdale, Ariz.-based national mortgage bank, AmeriFirst Financial Inc., announced Friday it has opened a branch in Loveland, its first in Northern Colorado and fifth in the state. AmeriFirst operates approximately 50 branches in 19 states, including three in Denver and one in
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President Donald Trump almost certainly failed in his mission to shrink the U.S. trade deficit last year. The trade deficit surged in November to $50.5 billion, the highest monthly level in almost six years, Commerce Department data showed Friday. That brings the cumulative shortfall for last year to $514
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban claimed credit for shielding Germany from migration in a dig at Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose sister party gave him a platform to criticize her refugee policy. Two days before talks on forming a new German government, Merkel's Bavarian allies hosted Orban in a
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