Aekyung's Buldak ramen-flavored toothpaste faced a recall — like its curry one
Aekyung's Buldak-ramen toothpaste faced a government recall for looking like food — the same problem as its 2020 curry-flavored version.
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Three years after entering Brazil and buying 37 preschools, the Chilean chain is selling up with about R$50 million in debts — unpaid salaries and rents.
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The Miglanis bought Lloyds Steel they could not digest; by October 2020 SBI had put Uttam Galva Steels and its Rs 7,469 crore debt before the NCLT.
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Uff Movil, Colombia's smallest operator with 81,000 users, suspended operations in July 2018 over 8bn pesos (US$2.8M) of unpaid network fees owed to Tigo-UNE.
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Shane Delia's lockdown-era restaurant delivery platform entered administration, leaving thousands of gift-card holders and popular restaurants unpaid.
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One fund-management employee at Osstem Implant allegedly stole ₩188B ($157M) — 91.81% of equity — and Korea froze the stock on 2022's first trading day.
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Nas Academy leaned on a thumbprinted contract for its Whang-Od course; the indigenous commission found no real consent, and the firm apologized and voided it.
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Macquarie Media lost 100+ advertisers and a running $3M EBITDA hit after Alan Jones' on-air attack on Jacinda Ardern, and ordered a full review of the show.
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Latitude shelved its second float in two years after investors balked at the price and a pitch dressed a boring, profitable lender as a BNPL star.
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Kitchen Culture fired CEO Lim Wee Li over 'grave misconduct', lodged a police report on $520,000 of payroll irregularities, and drew an SGX order.
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Three years into a five-year plan to add £500 million of profit, the B&Q owner was forecast to go backwards — and pulled out of three markets.
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Weeks before its IPO, Kakao Games softened one line in Guardian Tales; a gamer boycott dropped it from 5th to 24th on Google Play in a day.
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Endeavour Industries fell into administration after an olive-farm flop, unused land and no NDIS plan — 131 workers lost jobs, 13 residents their homes.
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Directors of Crown Perth's Burswood Limited said they first learned of the Riverbank account — allegedly used for laundering — from media reports.
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Coles quietly raised the price of 20 products it had promised to keep 'locked', and offered refunds after consumer group Choice complained to the ACCC.
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Dixons Carphone shut Carphone Warehouse's 81 Irish stores weeks after Vodafone stopped selling through the chain; footfall had fallen more than 40% in a year.
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Singapore's Autobahn stacked S$300M of group debt on a 1,700-car PHC fleet; its two directors are now bankrupt and face forgery charges.
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A network of dummy companies, inflated quotes and a fabricated 2014 audit report won AIC the Bac Lieu contract — and prison for its boss.
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The Zug conglomerate tied to Uzbekistan's ruling family paid for diamonds and footballers; EY gave clean opinions for 2005-2007 and now faces a $1B suit.
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