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Brasile
Exportaciones de café caen en primer semestre
Brasil exportó 18.1 millones de sacos (de 60 kilos) de café durante el primer semestre del año, lo que supone un 11.9% m...
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Brasile El Salvador
ES: Grupo Agrisal comienza la ampliación del WTC en El Salvador
El Grupo Agrisal inició este miércoles la construcción de la Torre Quattro, con la que ampliará su complejo World Trade Center en San Salvador (WTCSS). El proyecto requerirá una inversión de $20 millones, y estará finalizado para noviembre de 2017, explicó Ricardo Augspurg, director ejecutivo de Agrisal Inmobiliario.
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Ghana
SIC comfirms Ashidan as substantive MD
The Board of Directors of SIC Insurance Company Limited has confirmed the appointment of Kwei Mensah Ashidam as the substantive Managing Director of Ghana’s largest general Insurance Company. He has been the Acting Managing Director from February, 2015, following the exit of Mrs Doris Awo Nkani. Mr Ashidam brings on ...
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Giappone
Cabinet Office view of 2014 contraction differs from BOJ take of economy ¥29.5 trillion to the good
The official view in Japan for more than a year has been that the economy contracted in 2014 after a sales-tax hike stunted consumer spending. A new analysis from economists at the central bank paints a very different picture, suggesting that gross domestic product actually grew 2.4 percent. The contradictory ...
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Giappone Indonesia
Mitsubishi Motors reveals XM Concept crossover SUV in Indonesia
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Thursday revealed its new XM Concept crossover at the Gaikindo Indonesia International Auto Show. The XM Concept denotes X for crossover and M for multipurpose vehicle. Mitsubishi considers the vehicle a combination of the power, design and utility of a sport-utility vehicle with the spaciousness and ...
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Cina Giappone Hong Kong
Japan urges Hong Kong to lift ban on food from areas near Fukushima plant
JAgricultural minister Yuji Yamamoto said in Hong Kong on Thursday that he has requested the territory to lift a food ban that restricts imports from five Japanese prefectures most affected by a radiation-leak scare following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Imports of Japanese food, including milk, vegetables and ...
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Giappone
Twitter denies #SaveTwitter rumors that it’s tweeting its last in 2017
Twitter Inc. denied on Thursday rumors that the social media messaging service will be shutting down in 2017, denouncing the claim as groundless. “There is absolutely no truth to the claims whatsoever,” a spokesman for Twitter said in an emailed response to a Reuters request for comment. Social media started ...
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Ghana
Ghana: Government Approves U.S.$230 Million Renewable Energy Investment Plan
[Ghana Star] The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper has announced the approval of a $230 million scaling-up Renewable Energy Investment Plan (SREP-IP) by the Climate Investment Fund.
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Nigeria
NHRC wrong to include my name, says Uduaghan
Former Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday accused the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of not thoroughly studying the circumstances surrounding the nullification of his 2007 electoral victory before including his name in the list of poll offenders. He said, he was wrongly removed by the Appeal Court, adding that ...
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Paesi Bassi
Nothing to see here
OTHERWISE law-abiding citizens confiscating drivers’ keys, kettles that reek of crabmeat, and twenty-somethings unable to afford apartments; these phenomena seem unconnected. Yet locals see a common culprit: tourists. Troublesome tourists are nothing new. “Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice, there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors,” quipped ...