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India Giappone
Electronics firm Elecom exits India after four years
Elecom Co., a Japanese manufacturer of peripheral products and accessories for personal computers and other digital equipment, has closed its Indian unit after less than four years in the country, with one executive saying it failed to gain traction in the price-sensitive market. “Elecom India Pvt. Ltd. has stopped all ...
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Giappone Indonesia
Companies bet on sea change to tidal power in Indonesia
A well-connected Indonesian marine renewable energy company and OpenHydro, a unit of French state-owned naval defense company DCNS, aim to be the first to plug into the vast untapped tidal energy potential of the world’s biggest archipelago. Renewables have so far played little part in Indonesia’s power sector, despite the ...
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Giappone
Swiss vote on ending nuclear power raises prospect of more fossil fuels
Switzerland votes in a referendum on Sunday on whether to make a speedy withdrawal from atomic energy production, a move that would reduce nuclear risks but raise reliance on fossil fuels from Germany or imported nuclear power from France. The opposition Swiss Greens and Social Democrats have pushed for a ...
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Giappone
Nikkei rises for seventh-straight session on yen’s drop
The benchmark Nikkei average extended its winning streak to a seventh session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, with investors taking heart from a weaker yen. The 225-issue Nikkei average advanced 47.81 points, or 0.26 percent, to close at 18,381.22, the highest closing level since Jan. 4. The length of ...
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Giappone
LDP agrees to unify tax rates on beer, similar alcoholic drinks
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party agreed Friday to unify tax rates on beer and beer-like drinks in fiscal 2017 tax reforms, with an eye on adopting a uniform tax rate in October 2026, lawmakers said. Under the plan by the LDP’s tax commission, the tax rate on beer will be ...
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USA Giappone
MHI-Hitachi venture eyes Africa, Latin America for geothermal development
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd., a venture between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd., is eyeing Africa and Latin America to export its geothermal turbines, hoping to supply equipment for projects backed by Japan’s aid agency. The company, which announced winning an order in October to supply a 55-megawatt ...
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Giappone
Retailers turn deaf ear to Kuroda’s inflation pledge
While Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda’s vow to overshoot the Bank of Japan’s 2 percent inflation target caused a stir among monetary policy watchers in September, it’s yet to have an impact among retailers. Stores as diverse as supermarket operator Aeon, Mister Donut and Wal-Mart have all announced price cuts since Kuroda’s ...
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Giappone Australia
IBM settles with Australia over failure of online census
Global technology giant IBM carried most of the blame for the crash of Australia’s online census three months ago and has compensated the government for the financial cost of the debacle, the prime minister said on Friday. Australia’s first attempt to conduct a census online shut down for 43 hours ...
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Italia
Giornata internazionale per l’eliminazione della violenza contro le donne
In occasione della Giornata internazionale per l’eliminazione della violenza contro le donne, la Farnesina conferma convintamente l’impegno dell’Italia per la promozione dell’uguaglianza di genere e della lotta a ogni forma di discriminazione e violenza contro le donne. Nei giorni scorsi, grazie...
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Italia
In Italia sciopero dei trasporti e delle scuole, i piloti di Lufthansa fermi per il terzo giorno
In Italia sciopero dei trasporti e delle scuole, i piloti di Lufthansa fermi per il terzo giorno. È in corso fino alle 21 lo sciopero nazionale degli aerei e dei treni di Trenitalia, Trenord e Italo. L’agitazione sindacale coinvolge anche le scuole. A Roma si fermano i dipendenti dell’azienda di ...