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Helen Horne Funeral Directors, on Longford Street, Warrington, announced a finalist for the Community Champion award. Meanwhile employee John Ashcroft has been made a Finalist. The business beat strong competition with a record number of family businesses entering the awards from across the north west.
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1 year ago Read more at Chester and District Standard

Cho Suck-rai, former honorary chairman of Hyosung Group, died of a chronic illness Friday at the age of 89. On Saturday, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong and his mother Hong Ra-hee paid respect for Cho at the funeral altar set up at Severance Hospital in Seoul. Cho led the textile giant from 1982 until 2017, when he stepped down from the top management position due to health issues. His eldest son, Cho Hyun-joon took the bat
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1 year ago Read more at The Korea Herald

President Hakainde Hichilema announced this week that an agreement was reached under the G20 Common Framework, lifting a key hurdle in his government’s push to restructure the country’s $18.6 billion external debt. The debt restructuring negotiations have been held back by differences between China and Western creditors.
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1 year ago Read more at The East African

Felipe de Jesus Ornelas Mora, 51, and his employees knowingly accepted large amounts of money from drug dealers. These transactions took place at the International Boulevard business from no later than September 2020 to August 2022. The 51-year-old was convicted for conspiracy to commit money laundering and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release.
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1 year ago Read more at AOL

Winners Business Forum donated school shoes, bathing towels, and toothbrushes. The donation stemmed from a deep recognition of the needs in the Booysens community.
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1 year ago Read more at The Citizen

China’s manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in six months in March. The official purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.8 in March from 49.1 in February. It was also the highest PMI reading since March 2023. Recent upbeat indicators suggest the world’s second-largest economy is slowly getting back on better footing.
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1 year ago Read more at The Straits Times

General Office of State Council, China's cabinet, will conduct onsite inspection of 20 provinces and regions in April.Other issues involve arbitrary fees, fines, and imposts on private firms, inconveniences in applying for certificates and services, and local governments not fulfilling their commitments even after contract was implemented.
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1 year ago Read more at Global Times

Cho Seok-rae, 89, died on Friday at the age of 89. The late entrepreneur contributed to the Korean chemical industry's growth and economic ties with foreign countries, industry officials said Sunday. He was a pioneer in fiber industry, proposer of KORUS FTA By Park Jae-hyuk Hyosung Group Honorary Chairman Cho Seo-roon.
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1 year ago Read more at koreatimes

ERA member David Beck ordered Queenstown Local Laundry Services to fork out $25,000 to Vanessa Chandler in wage arrears, $20,000 compensation for humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to feelings, and $13,345 in lost wages. Chandler was to work 41 hours, Monday to Friday, at $25 an hour, but after a small pay rise it decreased to $585.50 a week from 25 May, 2020.
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1 year ago Read more at RNZ

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E, said it was testing "Sora' which would allow users to create realistic videos with a simple prompt. The company said the new platform was currently being tested but released a few videos of what it said was already possible.
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1 year ago Read more at Marianas Variety News & Views