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Giappone
Hokkaido melons fetch record ¥3 million at season’s first auction
A pair of melons produced in the Hokkaido city of Yubari on Thursday fetched a record ¥3 million ($27,240) in the first auction of the harvest season at a Sapporo wholesale market. The previous highest winning bid price for a pair of Yubari melons, which are a type of premium ...
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Giappone
The whispered numbers that tip off Japan traders have suddenly become taboo
For years, it’s been one of the Tokyo stock market’s biggest open secrets: By the time companies reveal their earnings to the public, the most plugged-in traders have known the numbers for weeks. Their clairvoyance had nothing to do with superior analytical skills, but stemmed instead from the country’s lack ...
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Giappone
Microsoft’s Windows 10 push comes to shove for some users
Microsoft really, REALLY wants you to upgrade to Windows 10. Since last summer, the tech giant has pushed and prodded PC owners to upgrade their machines to its latest Windows version. While the upgrade is currently free for most consumers with Windows PCs, critics say the company’s heavy-handed nudging amounts ...
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Giappone
Apple explores charging stations for electric vehicles
Apple Inc. is investigating how to charge electric cars, talking to charging station companies and hiring engineers with expertise in the area, according to people familiar with the matter and a review of LinkedIn profiles. For more than a year, Silicon Valley has been buzzing about Apple’s plan to build ...
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Giappone
French nuclear plants to strike Thursday but blackouts unlikely: CGT union
Staff in France’s 19 nuclear plants have voted to go on strike on Thursday as part of protests over a labor reform, a CGT union official told Reuters on Wednesday. Industry experts say planned strikes are unlikely to provoke blackouts because of legal limits on strike action in the nuclear ...
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Senegal
Chamboulements à la Directrion des Douanes : Macky Arrête L’avarie
Un grand coup de balai a été donné hier en Conseil des ministres, à la Douane sénégalaise. Ce chamboulement, qui n’a épargné que le Direction générale, est destiné à mettre un frein au laxisme et à la corruption qui commençaient à gangréner ce service important de l’Etat. A peine revenu d’un ...
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Brasile
A mulher que foi condenada a 40 anos de prisão por sofrer um aborto espontâneo
Em El Salvador, graças a uma lei antiaborto que a ONU compara a “tortura”, há dezenas de mulheres que passam da cama do hospital para a cela da prisão sem perceberem porquê. María Teresa acaba de ser libertada, depois de passar quatro anos na prisão por ter sofrido um aborto ...
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Thailandia Italia
Italia-Thailandia - Nuovo incontro del Business Forum
Ventinove aziende dei due paesi hanno partecipato al secondo Business Forum Italia-Thailandia, che si e' riunito a Koh Samet dopo l'incontro-lancio di Milano dell'ottobre 2015. L'iniziativa e' lo strumento economico bilaterale piu' importante attivato con la nazione asiatica, che vede ormai consolidata...
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Russia
Mosca - Convegno italo-russo su eredità Benedetto Croce
In occasione dei 150 anni dalla nascita di Benedetto Croce, l'Istituto italiano di Cultura di Mosca, insieme alla Facolta' di Scienze Umanistiche dell'Universita' Nazionale di Ricerca della Scuola superiore di Economia di Mosca, organizza un convegno italo-russo dedicato ad uno dei piu' significativi...
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Italia
Gli aperitivi di Internazionale al Goethe-Institut di Roma
Internazionale e il Goethe-Institut di Roma organizzano un ciclo di incontri su attualità, economia, cibo e cultura, con i corrispondenti della stampa europea e i giornalisti di Internazionale. Leggi