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The InterContinental Hotels Group, or IHG, the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms, and Muscat Golf Course Project on Sunday signed of a 20-year management agreement for the luxury InterContinental Muscat Hills Golf Resort in Oman.

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DP World London Gateway has awarded Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering a contract to build a rail terminal capable of handling the longest trains in the UK.

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The US dollar stayed under pressure on Monday in the wake of disappointing first-quarter U.S economic growth, leaving the yen, sterling and even high-beta currencies like the Australian dollar at multi-week highs.

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Foreign companies doing business in China must navigate a business culture in which bribery is rife, finding ways to remove obstacles to expanding in the world’s second-largest economy without running afoul of local or home-country laws.

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Asian markets rose in early trade on Monday, following a positive lead from Wall Street as dealers look ahead to the release of key economic data and European elections over the next week.

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Gold held near a 2-week high on Monday on prospects of more safe haven buying, with the dollar under pressure from weaker-than-expected U.S. economic data and speculation the Federal Reserve could ease policy further to boost growth.

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Coca-Cola has been ordered to temporarily halt production at a bottling plant in northern China, after media reports of chlorine in its products, according to a government statement.

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Some of Japan’s life insurers are buying overseas stocks to help boost investment returns while sticking with domestic sovereign debt as a safe haven, several of the companies said in interviews with Reuters.

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Norwegian telecom giant Telenor wrote off Monday the rest of its mobile business in India worth 3.9 billion kroner (513 million euros, $680 million) after New Delhi scrapped licences in a massive fraud probe.

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