Jakarta: Indonesia has rejected an Apple $100 million investment proposal aimed at lifting a ban on iPhone 16 sales, saying it lacks the "fairness" required by the government. Indonesia last month prohibited the marketing and sale of the iPhone 16 model over Apple's failure to meet local investment regulations requiring that 40 percent of phones be made from local parts …
Pauline Hanson has called on the Albanese government to ban foreigners from owning property in Australia. Senator Hanson claimed a low exchange rate and poor government policy had escalated the country's housing crisis and made it easier for foreigners, particularly from China, to buy property. 'China is buying up so much property and housing in Australia and it is disgusting …
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Philip Morris, though, stayed in India and used another route, according to company documents dated between May 2009 and January 2018. New Delhi: Philip Morris International Inc has for years paid manufacturing costs to its Indian partner to make its Marlboro cigarettes, circumventing a nine-year-old government ban on foreign direct investment in the industry, internal company documents reviewed by Reuters …