Golden Rooftops - Iran

Golden Rooftops - Iran

A man carries a tray of halved plums onto a rooftop in Kharv, Iran, on October 23, 2024. The city, located 18 kilometers from Neyshabur in Razavi Khorasan Province, has 400 hectares of plum orchards and is a major center for plum production. Photo by Morteza Aminoroayayi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

China Stock Market Stamp Duty Halved

ANQING, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Investors pay attention to the stock market at a securities business hall in Anqing city, East China's Anhui province, Aug. 28, 2023. Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued the Announcement on Halving the Stamp Tax on Securities Transactions, which will be halved from August 28. According to statistics, at present, there are more than 220 million individual investors in China's stock market, accounting for 99.76% of investors in the whole market. Reducing the stamp duty tax rate of securities transactions is conducive to enabling the tax reduction policy to benefit the majority of small and micro investors.

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Illustration Stamp duty, Suqian, Jiangsu, China, August 28, 2023. The State Administration of Taxation announced on Monday that stamp duty on securities transactions will be halved from August 28, 2023.

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Illustration Stamp duty, Suqian, Jiangsu, China, August 28, 2023. The State Administration of Taxation announced on Monday that stamp duty on securities transactions will be halved from August 28, 2023.

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Illustration Stamp duty, Suqian, Jiangsu, China, August 28, 2023. The State Administration of Taxation announced on Monday that stamp duty on securities transactions will be halved from August 28, 2023.

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Illustration Stamp duty, Suqian, Jiangsu, China, August 28, 2023. The State Administration of Taxation announced on Monday that stamp duty on securities transactions will be halved from August 28, 2023.

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Illustration Stamp duty, Suqian, Jiangsu, China, August 28, 2023. The State Administration of Taxation announced on Monday that stamp duty on securities transactions will be halved from August 28, 2023.

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

Photo Illustration Stamp Duty

SUQIAN, CHINA - AUGUST 28, 2023 - Illustration Stamp duty, Suqian, Jiangsu, China, August 28, 2023. The State Administration of Taxation announced on Monday that stamp duty on securities transactions will be halved from August 28, 2023.

High court slashes damages owed by Osaka governor over 2007 remarks

High court slashes damages owed by Osaka governor over 2007 remarks

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto answers questions from reporters in Osaka on July 2 after the Hiroshima High Court more than halved to 3.6 million yen the compensation owed by Hashimoto to four lawyers over remarks he made in 2007 about their tactics in defending a man convicted of murder.

Japan Post profit dives 51% on halving of savings division's gains

Japan Post profit dives 51% on halving of savings division's gains

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post President Yoshifumi Nichikawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 23. He said that the company's net profit in fiscal 2006 plunged 51.0 percent from the year before to 947.7 billion yen as net profit from its postal savings section, its biggest division, more than halved to 941.6 billion yen.

Japan's southern bluefin tuna quota halved for 2007

Japan's southern bluefin tuna quota halved for 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's fishing quota for southern bluefin tuna in photo provided by Traffic Oceania) has been halved to 3,000 tons for 2007 from 6,065 tons in 2006, the Fisheries Agency said on Oct. 16. The decision came during a four-day meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna last week in Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture. (Kyodo)

Japan Post profit dives 51% on halving of savings division's gai

Japan Post profit dives 51% on halving of savings division's gai

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Post President Yoshifumi Nichikawa speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on May 23. He said that the company's net profit in fiscal 2006 plunged 51.0 percent from the year before to 947.7 billion yen as net profit from its postal savings section, its biggest division, more than halved to 941.6 billion yen. (Kyodo)

High court slashes damages owed by Osaka governor over 2007 remar

High court slashes damages owed by Osaka governor over 2007 remar

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto answers questions from reporters in Osaka on July 2 after the Hiroshima High Court more than halved to 3.6 million yen the compensation owed by Hashimoto to four lawyers over remarks he made in 2007 about their tactics in defending a man convicted of murder. (Kyodo)

Wheelchair-friendly taxi

Wheelchair-friendly taxi

Photo taken in Nagoya, central Japan, on Jan. 31, 2019, shows the modified version of a wheelchair-friendly taxi developed by Toyota Motor Corp. Time required for setting up a ramp for wheelchair passengers will be halved to 3 minutes as compared to the standard Toyota JPN Taxi. The minivan version is set to be launched in March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Golf: Tanihara in Day 2 at WGC Dell Technologies Match Play

Golf: Tanihara in Day 2 at WGC Dell Technologies Match Play

Hideto Tanihara of Japan hits a tee shot on the sixth hole on Day 2 of a three-day round-robin group match at the world golf championship Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club in the Texas city on March 23, 2017. Tanihara halved with Ryan Moore of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Golf: Japan's Matsuyama in WGC Dell Technologies Match Play

Golf: Japan's Matsuyama in WGC Dell Technologies Match Play

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits a tee shot on the sixth hole during the first of a three-day round-robin group match at the world golf championship Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas, on March 22, 2017. Matsuyama halved with Jim Furyk of the United States in a group. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Price of cancer drug Opdivo to be halved in Feb. amid user surge

Price of cancer drug Opdivo to be halved in Feb. amid user surge

An advisory panel to the health minister holds a meeting at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 16, 2016. The panel approved a government plan to halve the price of the highly expensive cancer medication Opdivo from February, as a surge in users and attendant medical costs has raised fears of burdening the public health insurance system. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Arabian Oil to cut Japanese workforce by 45%

Arabian Oil to cut Japanese workforce by 45%

TOKYO, Japan - Keiichi Konaga, president of Japan's Arabian Oil Co., announces in Tokyo on March 6 that the company will cut its Japanese workforce by 45% this month as part of its operational restructuring following the loss of its oil drilling concessions in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 27. Arabian Oil's operations in the Khafji oil field have been halved, limiting them to the part of the field controlled by Kuwait.