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Spagna
La economía aragonesa se desacelerará en 2017, aunque crecerá por encima de la media de España
El Informe Funcas prevé que el PIB de Aragón crezca el 3,1% este año, mientras que para 2017 se observa una cierta ralentización de la economía con la que el crecimiento económico se situará en torno al 2,5%. Un porcentaje este último que, sin embargo, se situará por encima de ...
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Giappone
Japan's food export engine fires up
TOKYO: Japan's export engine built around cars and electronics has stalled, but the future could be using the country's gourmet culture to cast itself as a purveyor of high-quality food.
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USA
CLMV leaders push border trade in local currencies
Business leaders in Thailand and the CLMV countries are urging their governments to use local currencies for trading along borders instead of the US dollar to facilitate business and cut costs.
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Regno Unito
Heathrow gets nod for new runway
LONDON: Britain yesterday gave Heathrow Airport the green light to build a new $22 billion runway, ending 25 years of indecision and vowing to boost global trade links following the vote to leave the European Union.
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Giappone
Coca-Cola-Kirin soft-drink capital tie-up mulled for saturated Japan market
The Coca-Cola group and Kirin Holdings Co. are considering forming a capital tie-up and launching joint operations in Japan’s soft-drink market, where little growth potential is seen due to the country’s declining population. Kirin, Coca-Cola East Japan Co. and Coca-Cola West Co. said in separate releases Wednesday that they are ...
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Giappone
Apple quarterly profit off 19% as iPhone sales slip but Cook upbeat
Apple said Tuesday its profit over the past quarter fell 19 percent to $9 billion, pulled down by a widely expected drop in iPhone sales. The world’s biggest company by market value said revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter fell to $46.9 billion from $51.5 billion a year earlier. The ...
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Giappone
Japan has logged 236 passenger overbookings aboard airliners since 2012
There have been 236 cases in Japan since 2012 in which the number of air passengers who followed all preboarding procedures was different from that of passengers who boarded a flight, the transport ministry said Tuesday. In five of the cases, more passengers than a plane’s capacity were found on ...
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Giappone
Axed Iowa Hispanic sues, claims co-workers harassed her with Trump images
A Hispanic woman says her white co-workers at an Iowa claims office used images of Donald Trump to racially harass her for months after they learned she was angered by his description of Mexican immigrants as rapists, according to a civil rights lawsuit she filed against her company. Alexandra Avila’s ...
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USA Giappone
Trump urged to launch ‘bro’ channel as rich snub brand, new DC inn cuts rates
Event planner Beth Bernstein decided she had had enough with Donald Trump after his 2005 hot-mic boasts about groping women came to light earlier this month. She removed photos of weddings she had thrown at a Trump hotel in Chicago from her website, wrote to hotel staff to remove her ...
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USA Corea del Sud
Lotte Group to Invest 40 Tril. Won for 5 Years and Hire 70,000...Lotte Chairman
Shin Dong-bin, chairman of Lotte Group, said that his company would contribute to the national economy by investing 40 trillion won (US$35.4 billion) and hiring 70,000 new workers for the next five years. Mr. Shin said this in a press conference on October 25 at Lotte Hotel Seoul, adding, "In ...