Monthly Archive: April 2018

A handful of the top business stories we’re tracking in Financial Post

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SINGAPORE — A court in Singapore has fined two men 60,000 Singapore dollars ($45,800) each for breaching laws banning short-term rentals by renting out condominium units through online services such as Airbnb, Craigslist and HomeAway. Terence Tan En Wei and Yao Songlaing had pleaded guilty at the State Court in February to four charges of […]

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ANKARA, Turkey — The leaders of Russia and Turkey are scheduled to launch the start of the construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant as ties between the countries deepen. Russia’s Vladimir Putin, on his first foreign visit since re-election on March 18, arrives in Ankara on Tuesday for talks with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. […]

PARIS — A major French railway strike has brought the country’s famed high-speed trains to a halt, leaving passengers stranded and posing the biggest test so far for President Emmanuel Macron’s economic strategy. The SNCF national rail authority says about 12 per cent of trains are running Tuesday, in the first of a series of […]

LONDON — 21st Century Fox has offered new proposals to insulate Sky’s news operations from Rupert Murdoch’s influence in its ongoing bid to take full control of the London-based pay TV company. Fox said Tuesday it proposes to either sell Sky News to Walt Disney or comprehensively ringfence Sky News. It said in a regulatory […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Spotify is about to find out whether investors view its music streaming service as a budding superstar or a flash in the pan. The Swedish company will make its stock market debut Tuesday, casting a spotlight on its early lead in music streaming — a still-evolving field trying to hook people on […]

HONOLULU — A push to save and expand a visa program unique to the Northern Mariana Islands is hitting skids after recent cases of labour abuse and visa fraud, delivering a major blow to the U.S. commonwealth’s economy, which relies heavily on foreign workers. The visa classification, known as CW-1, allows employers to seek permission […]

MISSOULA, Mont. — Attorneys for a neo-Nazi website publisher and a Montana woman will ask a judge Tuesday to decide whether the white nationalist had a First Amendment right to unleash a “troll storm” of anti-Semitic messages and threats against the woman’s family. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch was scheduled to hear arguments in Missoula […]