Новости за 14.02.2017

Heineken, the world’s second-largest brewer, yesterday agreed to buy the loss-making Brazilian breweries of Japan’s Kirin Holdings to boost its presence in the world’s third-biggest beer market. The Dutch brewer will become the number two brewer in Brazil, with a share of some 19 per cent, behind clear market leader Anheuser-Busch InBev. Including debt, Heineken said it would pay €1.025 billion. For Kirin it marks a departure from the Brazilian market, having paid some $3.9 billion in 2011 for 12 breweries... Читать дальше...

Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee appeared at the South Korean special prosecutor’s office for questioning yesterday as part of a wider investigation into an influence-peddling scandal that could topple President Park Geun-hye. The special prosecutor has focused on South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, accusing Lee in his capacity as Samsung chief of pledging 43 billion won (€35 million) to a business and organisations backed by Park’s friend, Choi Soon-sil, in exchange for support for a 2015 merger of two Samsung companies. Читать дальше...

Deborah Schembri (‘Private lives and public interest’, February 11) asks: “Should the private life of politicians, and by private here I mean sexual, be made public?” She asks this question in the light of the alleged visit by a government minister, while on official business, to a brothel in Germany. She further distinguishes between “what is in the public interest and what the public is merely interested in” and, out of synch with media law, comes up with her own definition of the ‘public interest’... Читать дальше...

I was moved by Peter Busuttil’s memorial article on Pino Scicluna. It was written not only with much knowledge of that very fine actor and of his personality but with the love that old friends like Peter and Pino have for each other. I invite Peter to write, alone or in the company of others, the biography that Pino certainly deserved. For me, who got to know Pino as a creator of memorable stage characters and only very superficially as a friend, he remains the great actor who created Francis Ebejer’s Il-Gaħan ta’ Binġemma... Читать дальше...