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Top 20 Highest Grossing Movies of 2016 in Japan

Oricon has released the top 10 in the box office charts for 2016. Movie Collection listed the top 20 so check out the list below!

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Three Gorges Corp. generates 206 bln kwh of electricity in 2016

​Four large hydropower stations run by China Three Gorges Corporation generated 206.06 billion kwh of electricity in 2016, the highest on record, the company said Monday.

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Shenzhen attracts funds through HK link

Investors are showing stronger willingness to invest northbound, toward Shenzhen using the new Shenzhen-Hong Kong stocks link, according to figures for first full month of trading, as of Thursday. However, market analysts expect that the southbound flows, toward Hong Kong, are likely to be larger in the first half of this year.

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PwC sees rising IPOs in Shanghai and Shenzhen

The number of initial public offerings on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets is expected to increase rapidly in the current year-and their total value will grow substantially-after 227 took place in 2016, a 3.7 percent rise from the year earlier, according to accounting and auditing firm PwC.

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China's box office growth slows dramatically amid "weak crop" of films

Cinema takings expanded at the slowest rate in a decade in 2016 as big budget films like The Great Wall failed to draw audiences

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Macao's gaming revenue rises for fifth straight month

​ The revenue of Macao's gaming industry registered a rise of 8 percent to 19.82 billion patacas (about 2.48 billion U.S. dollars) in December 2016, the special administrative region's gaming watchdog said Wednesday.

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China's movie industry grows in 2016

China's box office in 2016 reached 45.71 billion yuan (6.58 billion U.S. dollars), up 3.73 percent year-on-year, and 1.37 billion people went to cinemas, official figures showed Saturday.

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Textile sector set to suffer trade deficit for 2nd straight year

​South Korea's textile and garment industry is set to suffer a trade deficit for the second consecutive year in 2016 amid an influx of cheap Chinese products, industry data showed Friday.

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Sprint, OneWeb say 8,000 jobs announced by Trump are part of SoftBank pledge

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said telecommunications group Sprint Corp and a U.S. satellite company OneWeb will bring 8,000 jobs to the United States, and the companies said the positions were part of a previously disclosed pledge by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp.

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Egypt to receive new year with remaining economic, security challenges

​As the countdown is ticking for receiving the new year 2017, Egypt bids farewell to 2016 with remaining economic and security challenges in addition to ups and downs in its foreign relations, particularly with its leading oil-rich Gulf ally Saudi Arabia.

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Disney just became the first movie studio to earn $7 billion in a single year

It was only a matter of time: Disney has set an industry record for biggest global box-office haul in a single year.

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'Your Name.' soars to 2nd all time in domestic box office take

Conjuring up more magic at the domestic box office, the teenage body-switching anime “Your Name.” has become the second-highest grossing Japanese film ever, passing Hayao Miyazaki’s “Howl’s Moving Castle” and trailing only “Spirited Away.”

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Trump claims $50 billion SoftBank investment due to his election win

Billionaire business tycoon Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday he would invest $50 billion in the United States and create 50,000 new jobs, a move President-elect Donald Trump claimed was a direct result of his election win.

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Britain's financial services sector makes highest recorded tax contribution: report

New figures published by City of London Corporation Tuesday shows the total tax contribution from Britain's financial services sector reached 71.4 billion pounds (90.54 billion U.S. dollars) in the year to March 31, 2016.

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Black Friday 2016 Online Sales Break Record; Crosses $1 Billion In One Day

A digital marketing research group has recorded online sales at a record high of 3.34 billion U.S. dollars during the Black Friday shopping spree in the United States.

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Brexit to spark UK slowdown, blow hole in public purse

Brexit will spark an economic slowdown and ravage public finances, forcing a multi-billion-pound spike in state borrowing over the next five years, a gloomy mini-budget revealed Wednesday.