Brazil chases FIFA over World Cup structures
Brazilian state prosecutors are seeking to recover almost $100m from football's global governing body FIFA which was spent on temporary structures at venues for next year's World Cup.
Panasonic to slash chip business workforce in half: reports
Panasonic is set to cut its chip division workforce in half, axing thousands of jobs as the electronics giant overhauls its battered balance sheet after record losses.
ADB injections into the Kazakh economy stand at over $2.5 billion
Kazakhstan plans to be a partner of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to support developing countries: PM.
S. Korea tobacco firm to pull chimp ad for 'Africa' brand
South Korea's top tobacco firm said Wednesday it would pull ads for its new "This Africa" brand of cigarettes after complaints the use of images of apes dressed as humans was racist.
Australia inflation jumps, dashes rate cut hopes
Australian inflation rose by a stronger-than-expected 1.2 percent in the July-September period compared to the previous quarter.
Samruk-Kazyna plans to lay-off thousands of administrative personnel
Samruk-Kazyna keeps on its effort to optimize the structure of its administrative pool of employees.
Merger of Kazakhstan’s pension funds to be complete in H2 2014
Earlier Mr. Kelimbetov, the then Vice Prime Minister, said that all the pension savings should be consolidated into a single government-owned pension fund by July 1, 2013.
Japan firms to invest in Brazilian shipbuilder
A Japanese consortium on Tuesday said it would buy a 30 percent stake in a Brazilian shipbuilder as its eyes the lucrative market for resource-exploration vessels.
Chinese oil firms, Europe's giants win Brazil auction
China's CNOOC and CNPC, Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell and France's Total joined Brazilian state operator Petrobras on Monday in winning production rights to the huge "Libra" Atlantic oilfield.