Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a meaningful reduction in India's corporate tax rates to help spur investment and boost growth in the country's slowing economy. These changes came as a positive surprise and send a strong signal that…
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Chloe Cornish in Beirut, Laura Pitel in Ankara, Aime Williams in Washington and Henry Foy in Moscow
– Oct 12, 6:24 AM
Turkish forces and allied rebel groups have closed in on a key border town as a ground offensive ordered by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushes into north-east Syria. An official from the Kurdish-led administration that controls the area denied…
China's securities regulator has announced it will abolish limits on foreign ownership of fund management companies in the country starting from April 2020. Following cross-departmental studies and research, the China Securities Regulatory…
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Tom Mitchell in Beijing
– Oct 12, 2:48 AM
After five months of constant escalations in their long-running trade war with the US, Chinese officials on Friday finally secured a respite. In return for a series of modest concessions, most of which had been offered by President Xi Jinping's…
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Delphine Strauss in London
– Oct 11, 2:00 PM
Teaching prison inmates to scale walls carries some obvious difficulties. When Bounce Back, a charity that helps ex-offenders secure jobs in construction, began running a course in scaffolding at Brixton prison, they were set a height limit of…
