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  • The Japanese government has submitted tax reform bills to Japan's parliament, the Diet. If enacted as planned, these bills will become law on or after April 1 2003. The tax reform bills include, in particular, proposals for a significant streamlining of and tax reduction in individual income taxation on capital gains and dividends with respect to listed shares, with a view to revitalizing Japanese stock markets.
  • New Regulations on the Administration of Foreign-invested Venture Investment Enterprises were promulgated in China on January 30 2003. The new regulations were put forward jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, State Administration of Taxation and State Administration of Foreign Exchange .
  • The statistics for 2002 published by the Capital Markets Board revealed a noteworthy growth in the number of foreign funds that entered the market. In fact, 19 different foreign funds' securities were issued last year, thus boosting the total number of foreign mutual funds with interests being traded in Turkey to 40 since 1997.
  • On January 8 2003 the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan passed the Law On Investments (No 375-II). The new law represents an effort to consolidate separate past legislation governing foreign and direct investment and to level the playing field for domestic and foreign investors.
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  • Budget Rent a Car has become the first US company to be put into UK administration and US Chapter 11 through the use of new pan-European insolvency procedures allowed under the EU's Insolvency Regulation.
  • Telkom South Africa has become the first foreign company of the year to list on the New York Stock Exchange, with Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom all having roles in the offering.
  • The Chinese government has taken a step towards easing the country's bad debt burden by approving - for the first time - an onshore Sino-foreign joint venture to buy a portfolio of non-performing assets.
  • The signing of a $3.4 billion deal for Sinopec and BASF to build an integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, eastern China, represents another landmark financing in the mainland.
  • The Belgian, Dutch, French, Portuguese and UK authorities have signed an agreement to cooperate in regulating Euronext's derivatives markets.