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Giappone
IPhone ready to play catch-up in Japan with swipe-to-pay chips
Apple Inc. is planning a new iPhone feature for Japan that will let people pay for mass-transit rides with their smartphones instead of physical payment cards. A future iPhone will include technology called FeliCa, a mobile tap-to-pay standard in Japan developed by Sony Corp., according to people familiar with the ...
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Giappone
Japan Trustee Services Bank sues Toshiba for ¥12 billion over accounting scandal
Japan Trustee Services Bank is seeking ¥11.99 billion in damages from Toshiba Corp. over the industrial giant’s accounting scandal, Toshiba announced Friday. In a damages suit filed on Aug. 9 with the Tokyo District Court, the bank said it suffered financial damage because the scandal damaged Toshiba’s share price. The ...
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Giappone
Consumer prices log fifth straight decline, adding to Abenomics gloom
Inflation continued to disappoint in July, according to data released Friday, with consumer prices dropping for the fifth month straight in another blow to Tokyo’s faltering war on deflation. The 0.5 percent decline in July was worse than the 0.4 percent average expected by economists. Friday’s data came ahead of ...
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Giappone
With ¥130 billion war chest, Line hunts for acquisitions to jazz up content, technology
Line Corp. plans to use part of the ¥130 billion it garnered from last month’s initial public offering to bankroll acquisitions of content and technology, transforming its messaging service into a one-stop shop for Asian social media users. Japan’s most popular messaging service is gunning for companies in areas ranging ...
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Giappone Thailandia
Thai society learns to cope with ‘Pokemon Go’ fever
These days it isn’t unusual to see groups of various ages gathering to play “Pokemon Go” at department stores and other public places in Thailand. The widely popular smartphone game debuted here, and in many other Asia-Pacific countries, in early August. Word spread among the Thai gaming community and, when ...
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Giappone
Lotte Group vice chairman found dead before corruption probe
Lotte Group said Friday its vice chairman has been found dead as authorities widen a probe into corruption at South Korea’s fifth-largest business group. Lee In-won, 69, the company’s highest-ranking executive outside the founding family and the top aide to its chairman, was found dead hours before a scheduled appearance ...
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Nigeria
Issuance Of Passport In Canada, Stress-free – Dabiri-Erewa
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the issuance of Nigerian passport in Canada as stress-free. Dabiri-Erewa who was reacting to an old CBC video circulating on social media in a statement made available to LEADERSHIP on Friday in Abuja ...
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Nigeria
100% Examination On Container Not Possible – Customs Boss
The Apapa Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, has said that 100 percent examination on imported cargoes into the country was not possible. This was disclosed by the ASYCUDA project manager, (APM) of the command,Yusuf Malata, at a monthly stakeholders’ meeting held at the command headquarters, Lagos. Speaking ...
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Egitto USA
Two years after the 2014 Gaza hostilities, UN agencies call for greater flow of aid
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: occupied Palestinian territoryIn a report released today, UN agencies document collective progress made in the last two years, as well as some of the remaining challenges in the recovery and reconstruction effort.On the day marking two years since the 26 August ...
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Brasile
Barreiras comerciais restringem competitividade de produtos brasileiros
O diplomata brasileiro em missão na OMC, Celso de Tarso Pereira, participa do 4º Fórum de Agricultura da América do Sul, em CuritibaDaniel Isaia/Agência Brasil O diplomata brasileiro em missão na Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC), Celso de Tarso Pereira, disse hoje (25) que é possível ampliar mercado para os ...