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Giappone Taiwan
Sharp lifts profit guidance for fiscal 2016
Sharp Corp. on Friday upgraded its earnings outlook for the year through March on a decline in sales-related costs, forecasting a group operating profit of ¥47.4 billion ($418 million). That is up from the revised projection of ¥37.3 billion announced on Feb. 3. Sharp, in the process of restructuring under ...
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Giappone
Toshiba memory-chip unit is alluring target but not an easy sell
Toshiba Corp., seeking to make up for a huge write-down in its nuclear-equipment unit, finally took the drastic step of putting its crown jewel — its chip business — up for sale. Finding a buyer might prove to be even more difficult. The Tokyo-based conglomerate had been entertaining offers for ...
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Giappone Singapore
Japan pitches staff training as part of Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail bid
If the shinkansen system is selected for a high-speed rail project set to connect Malaysia and Singapore, Japan is ready to train local staff, a senior diplomat said. “In addition to offering high-tech trains, indirectly we will also offer human resource development and employment opportunities,” Ambassador to Malaysia Makio Miyagawa ...
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Giappone
Can internet-beaming balloons outmaneuver shifting winds?
For its next trick, an internet-beaming balloon factory that was spun out of Google believes it can outmaneuver the wind. In doing so, the 4-year-old “Project Loon” says it will be able to bring remote parts of the world online more quickly with a smaller fleet of the balloons than ...
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Paesi Bassi
Onderzoekers Eindhoven ontwikkelen 'slimme' pil
Een medicijn dat voortdurend zelf kan bepalen hoe hard en waar het moet werken in het lichaam van een zieke. Onderzoekers van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) hebben een methode bedacht waarmee ze zo'n medicijn dichterbij hopen te brengen. Ze publiceren vrijdag in Nature Communications.
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Nuova Zelanda
Guns N' Roses' Wellington guitar picks on Trade Me
How do you sell three pieces of coin-sized plastic for over NZ$300?
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Nuova Zelanda
Wellington business owners 'sabotaging' sensor car parks to get free parking, city council says
Some business owners in Wellington's CBD are being accused of "sabotaging" new sensor car parks in an effort to get free parking.
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USA Bielorussia
Number of Ukrainian children needing aid nearly doubles to 1 million in past year
Source: UN Children's Fund Country: UkraineThe increase – an additional 420,000 girls and boys – is due to the continued fighting and the steady deterioration of life in eastern Ukraine, where some 1.7 million people have been displaced. KYIV/GENEVA, 17 February 2017 – As the volatile conflict in eastern Ukraine enters its ...
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USA
World must act now to save lives in Somalia
Source: World Food Programme, UN Children's Fund Country: SomaliaUNICEF and WFP warns that only a massive and immediate scale-up of humanitarian assistance can help the country avoid falling into another catastrophe. MOGADISHU – As a devastating drought grips Somalia, UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that only ...
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Kenya
East Africa: Kenya's Foreign Minister Mohamed Says East Africa Best Invesment Destination
[Daily News] East Africa offers friendly investment ground for German investors that assures high rate of return than any other developing region in the world.