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Cina USA Giappone
Gap’s Old Navy will exit Japan as chain copes with sales decline
Gap Inc.’s Old Navy is pulling out of Japan. The chain will close its 53 stores in the country this year to refocus on North America and China, according to a statement on Thursday. In another sign of the San Francisco-based company’s difficulties, Gap did not reaffirm its earnings forecast ...
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Giappone
Tokyo’s rooftop helipads remain unused
Tokyo’s Peninsula Hotel boasts a chauffeur-driven 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom, a celebrity podiatrist studio and an aviation lounge to whisk executives to and from its $1,000-a-night suites by helicopter. Since it opened in 2007, the rooftop helipad has never been used. The hotel is one of about 80 buildings in the ...
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Giappone
Record 97% of university graduates land jobs
A record-high 97.3 percent of university graduates in Japan were employed as of the beginning of the fiscal year on April 1, according to government data released Friday, reflecting companies’ increasing appetite for recruitment. The employment rate of job-seeking university graduates rose 0.6 percentage points from the year before, marking ...
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Giappone
Google patent glues pedestrians to self-driving cars
Google on Thursday had a fresh U.S. patent for a sticky coating that could be applied to self-driving cars so pedestrians stick instead of bouncing off when hit. The patent describes a layer of adhesive on a car’s hood, front bumper and possibly front side panels sealed with a coating ...
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Giappone
Yen intervention wouldn’t spur growth, Obama adviser says
The U.S., heading into a major summit of advanced economies, is warning that currency intervention by countries such as Japan won’t help the cause of boosting global growth, reinforcing Obama administration pressure on the nation to avoid weakening the yen. “At a moment when global growth appears weaker than it ...
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Giappone
Cookpad’s maverick founder stirs recipe for unrest
A spat is rocking one of Japan’s most popular Internet companies after the founder moved to kick out the board, enraging staff and sending shares tumbling. Akimitsu Sano, who owns 44 percent of Cookpad Inc., shocked investors in January by calling on them to dump all other directors of the ...
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Giappone
Bayer approaches Monsanto in takeover bid for global agrochemical shakeout
German drugs and chemicals group Bayer AG made an unsolicited takeover offer for U.S. seeds company Monsanto Co, aiming to create the world’s biggest agricultural supplier and integrate pesticides and seeds markets. Monsanto disclosed the approach on Wednesday before Bayer confirmed its move, though neither gave the proposed terms. Sources ...
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USA Giappone
Congress contributing to long airport lines by pulling funds for security: airliines
As airport security lines get longer, the finger-pointing over blame is growing too. The nation’s leading airlines, already feuding with the Transportation Security Administration, are now taking on Congress. The trade group Airlines for America on Thursday said Congress should reverse a 2013 decision that diverted $12.6 billion in passenger-security ...
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Francia Australia
In Francia le sigarette saranno vendute in un pacchetto neutro.
In Francia le sigarette saranno vendute in un pacchetto neutro. Dal 20 maggio le fabbriche dove si producono i pacchetti di sigarette per il mercato francese dovranno adottare, sull’esempio dell’Australia, degli imballaggi color verde oliva, senza logo, con dei grandi messaggi di avvertimento sui rischi del fumo per la salute. ...
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Ghana
GES to recruit over 2000 teachers for Maths and Science in SHS
The Ghana Education Service (GES), is to recruit over 2,000 teachers to teach Mathematics and Science in Senior High Schools. GES announced that it has been granted the financial clearance by the Ministry of Finance to recruit 2,400 teachers who will teach Mathematics and Science in senior high schools. In ...