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Interministerial Committee for Innovation - Paris

French Minister in charge of Public Accounts Amelie de Montchalin speaks with head of the French association of private corporations Patricia Barbizet during the Interministerial Committee for Innovation at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (Centre Pompidou) in Paris on April 10, 2025. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Interministerial Committee for Innovation - Paris

French Minister in charge of Public Accounts Amelie de Montchalin speaks with head of the French association of private corporations Patricia Barbizet during the Interministerial Committee for Innovation at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (Centre Pompidou) in Paris on April 10, 2025. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Interministerial Committee for Innovation - Paris

French Minister in charge of Public Accounts Amelie de Montchalin speaks with head of the French association of private corporations Patricia Barbizet during the Interministerial Committee for Innovation at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (Centre Pompidou) in Paris on April 10, 2025. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

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South Africa's Absa Group taps into Chinese market with Beijing subsidiary

STORY: South Africa's Absa Group taps into Chinese market with Beijing subsidiary SHOOTING TIME: May 8, 2024 DATELINE: May 10, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:56 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launching ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE (English): CHERYL BUSS, CEO, Absa International 3. various of street views in Beijing STORYLINE: South Africa's Absa Group, one of Africa's largest diversified financial service providers, launched a subsidiary in Beijing on Wednesday. This marks the group's first move into the Chinese market. The subsidiary is designed to provide non-banking services, including consulting services for Chinese enterprises investing in Africa and releasing research reports. SOUNDBITE (English): CHERYL BUSS, CEO, Absa International "So, given their inextricable links and the economic ties and the trade and investment between China and Africa, we believe that it's important to be the face of Africa in China and to really connect with Chinese institutions, corporations, banks, develo

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JAPAN-TOKYO-AI-EXPO

(230512) -- TOKYO, May 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- The AI corporations from Shenzhen attend the 7th AI Expo Tokyo Spring in Tokyo, Japan, May 10, 2023. The 7th AI Expo Tokyo Spring kicking off Wednesday is showcasing 250 kinds of leading-edge products and services based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology in various fields such as demand forecasting, shipping, fishery, food safety, medical care and machine translation. TO GO WITH "Roundup: AI show in Tokyo explores prospects of AI application" (Xinhua/Zhong Ya)

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High court turns down appeal from Chinese WWII forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs head for the Tokyo High Court on June 16 before the court rejected a damages suit filed by 42 Chinese nationals against the Japanese government and 10 corporations for having forcibly brought them to Japan and forced them to perform unpaid labor during World War II.

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Panel to rethink road privatization

TOKYO, Japan - A government advisory panel tasked with privatizing four debt-ridden road-related public corporations is in session at a Tokyo hotel Aug. 22. The agreed to review a scheme to turn the entities into self-sustaining private firms 10 to 15 years after privatization. About 8.1 trillion yen in taxpayer money needs to be injected to repay some of the entities' debts if they all go public within 10 to 15 years, said the panel of seven private-sector experts.

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Biden proposes 20 pct minimum tax on wealthiest in White House budget plan

STORY: Biden proposes 20 pct minimum tax on wealthiest in White House budget plan DATELINE: March 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:10 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President 2. various of White House STORYLINE: The Biden administration on Monday proposed a new 20-percent minimum tax on the wealthiest, vowing to fix the tax code to ensure corporations and wealthy people "pay their fair share." "This minimum tax would apply only to the wealthiest 0.01 percent of households - those with more than 100 million U.S. dollars - and over half the revenue would come from billionaires alone," according to a White House fact sheet on President Joe Biden's budget for Fiscal Year 2023. SOUNDBITE (English): JOE BIDEN, U.S. President "Under my plan, as I said, no one making less than 400,000 U.S. dollars a year will pay an additional single penny in taxes. No one. If you don't make 400 grand, you're not going to pay a single penny in additional federal taxes. And the

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High court turns down appeal from Chinese WWII forced laborers

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs head for the Tokyo High Court on June 16 before the court rejected a damages suit filed by 42 Chinese nationals against the Japanese government and 10 corporations for having forcibly brought them to Japan and forced them to perform unpaid labor during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Panel to rethink road privatization

TOKYO, Japan - A government advisory panel tasked with privatizing four debt-ridden road-related public corporations is in session at a Tokyo hotel Aug. 22. The agreed to review a scheme to turn the entities into self-sustaining private firms 10 to 15 years after privatization. About 8.1 trillion yen in taxpayer money needs to be injected to repay some of the entities' debts if they all go public within 10 to 15 years, said the panel of seven private-sector experts. (Kyodo)