News Headlines - 03 August 2015
▽Greek Stocks Fall 16% as Trading Resumes After Five-Week Closure - WSJ
After a five-week hiatus, Athens’s stock market reopened Monday—and promptly sank like a stone.
The steep decline shows investors are still concerned about Greece, even though the country and its creditors appear to have made some progress in recent bailout negotiations.
Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi apologised on Saturday after its Bangkok bureau chief posted an image of his genitals on a mobile forum set up by Thailand’s foreign ministry, which warned of “consequences”.
▽Uniqlo founder says sex video shot in Beijing store is 'disgusting' | The Guardian
The founder of Japanese retailer Uniqlo says he was appalled by a viral sex video shot inside its flagship Beijing store, describing it as “disgusting”.
The film became an internet sensation in China last month and sparked government outrage.
▽Merkel's German conservatives set sights on absolute majority | Reuters
The results of the poll came a day after Der Spiegel news magazine said in an unsourced report that Merkel, who turned 61 on July 17, had decided to run for a fourth term and had started planning her 2017 re-election campaign.
▽Fifa president Sepp Blatter opts against standing for re-election to IOC | The Guardian
Blatter was among a group of IOC members up for re-election for another eight-year term but the IOC president Thomas Bach said the Swiss had informed him by letter on 23 July that he would not stand again.
