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Chinese shipping giant Cosco is set to buy its Hong Kong rival OOIL for $6.3bn (£4.9bn).The deal would make Cosco the world’s third biggest shipping company, with more than 400 vessels. OOIL’s majority owner has accepted the bid, though the sale will still

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Campaigners in India are going to court against a tax on menstrual hygiene products. Sanitary pads and tampons are taxed at 12% even though many other feminine cosmetic products have been made tax-free.Few women use the products in India, and campaigners say the

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We are all being kept “completely in the dark” about the effect Brexit will have on our weekly shop, Sainsbury’s former boss Justin King has told BBC Panorama.He says it is going to mean “higher prices, less choice and poorer

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Alex Beard is the chief executive of London’s Royal Opera House. He told #CEOsecrets he thinks he has the best job in the world and that the key to doing it well is to make sure that the people who work for him are at the centre of everything.Follow #CEOSecrets

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Not far from where I live is Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, home to art and antiquities from around the world. I often find myself slipping down the stairs to the money gallery in its grand basement. You can see coins from Rome, the Vikings, the Abbasid Caliphate

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Tech entrepreneur TJ Rodgers made billions of dollars founding silicon chip maker Cypress Semiconductors, now he has turned his sights to wine-making, and is on a quest to make the best Pinot Noir in the New World. A

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A wealthy businessman has submitted plans for a third runway at Heathrow which he says would be £5bn cheaper than the airport’s current scheme.Hotel tycoon Surinder Arora has put his proposal to the government’s public consultation on Heathrow.Ministers

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Train passengers across England are being hit by further action by striking union members.Northern staff have walked out for three days until Monday, while Merseyrail staff are on strike and also plan action on 10 and 23 July.Southern workers also plan to walk out on

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