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  Expo 62: Help is at hand

  

  Issue 62

  It’s part hardware store, part department store but ultimately defies description. It is a tokyo institution that sells just about everything and is loved by everyone. Welcome to Tokyu Hands.

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  Business / Industry

  Two-wheel deal

  

  Issue 21

  The car industry is in global disarray. So can the makers of affordable, greener scooters overtake the punch-drunk auto makers? At Honda’s HQ they are planning a two-wheeled revolution.

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  Business / Industry

  Business Briefing

  

  Issue 59

  Brands, sectors and players that will set the business agenda in the near future.

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  Business / Industry

  Sleeper sell

  

  Issue 10

  With highspeed trains stealing more business travellers by the day, Europe’s top rail operator is betting that improved sleeper trains can also take back the night. For a world rediscovering the benefits – and pleasures …

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• Business / Industry

  Back on the radar

  

  Issue 17

  Spanish shipbuilders have seen out the storms and now, thanks to booming global demand, their order books are full. But as the yards launch ships for the Australian navy and the world’s biggest dredgers, could the tide turn…

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  Business / Industry

  Business briefing

  

  Issue 64

  Smuggling in Mali, locking up in Singapore, film-making in Mauritius and other business news.

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  Business / Industry

  Pole star

  

  Issue 59

  The small community of Kirkenes is set to witness big changes as global warming opens up the Arctic. Can it cope with the influx of businesses keen to take advantage of its position on the Northern Sea Route?

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  Business / Industry

  Air to a fortune

  

  Issue 8

  Denmark is a pioneer in wind energy: some days the entire country is powered by it. Now LM Glasfiber, Danish maker of vast turbine blades, is helping convert the rest of the world.

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• Business / Industry

  Raising the steaks

  

  Issue 24

  Omi beef from Shiga prefecture is little known outside Japan, but its butter-soft consistency and low fat content means that restaurateurs, meat producers and diners from New York to Australia are starting to take notice…

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  Business / Industry

  Gilt trip

  

  Issue 12

  Financial markets are gripped by gold fever – it could soon hit $1,000 an ounce. Key to this secretive trade are the daily bullion flights between the world’s leading financial hubs. Welcome aboard Bullion Air.

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  Edits / Industry

  Milling about

  

  Issue 42

  With a rapidly shifting media landscape and declines in newspaper sales, it might seem logical to expect paper mills to be struggling. Not so in the case of northern England’s James Cropper, whose unique colours and spec…

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  Business / Industry

  Oblast resort

  

  Issue 26

  It’s an isolated chip off the old Russian bloc that’s surrounded by wealthier EU nations. Its future is anyone’s guess – military outpost or beach resort? But with a dynamic leader and wise investment, Kaliningrad could…

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