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Giappone
‘Strange’ hotel, run by robots, opens near Tokyo; more to come
Major travel agency H.I.S. Co. on Wednesday celebrated the opening of its second robot-staffed Henn na Hotel. The new location is near the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture. The name is a play on a Japanese word meaning strange. It is the company’s first opening of a hotel ...
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Giappone
Dollar falls back below ¥115 in Tokyo
The dollar fell back below ¥115 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, as market activity was quiet ahead of key events including a U.S. monetary policy decision. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥114.69-69, down from ¥115.15-16 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.0637-0637, against $1.0638-0639, and ...
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Giappone
SoftBank’s Son promises to help Saudi economy via investment
SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son promised Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud Salman that the telecom conglomerate will help Saudi Arabia prosper through investment. Speaking to reporters after their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday, Son quoted the king as telling him he was greatly looking forward to the investment ...
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Giappone
Tokyo stocks fall further on weaker overseas markets
Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, weighed down by sluggish overseas equities overnight. The 225-issue Nikkei average retreated 32.12 points, or 0.16 percent, to close at 19,577.38. On Tuesday, the key market gauge lost 24.25 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ended down 3.59 ...
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Giappone
Workers at top companies get meager 2017 pay hikes in Abenomics setback
Major firms offered the lowest base-pay hike in four years, a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign dubbed “Abenomics” to spur the long-sluggish economy. The post Workers at top companies get meager 2017 pay hikes in Abenomics setback appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Cina Giappone
14 nations start talks in Chile on replacing or redesigning TPP trade deal
Ministers and officials representing the 12 countries of the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership, plus China and South Korea, began talks toward a new pact in Chile on Tuesday, but any decision on how it might look seemed far off. The TPP, which would have included about 40 percent of the world’s ...
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Malta
Art students leave their mark at the airport - and end up in court
Two arts students from the Czech Republic ended their stay in Malta with a visit to the law courts after having decided to leave mementos of their artistic talent on the furniture at Malta International Airport. Jan Olt, 27, and Martin Bohm, 25, were arraigned under arrest and charged with having ...
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Cina USA
China’s premier seeks to cool US trade tensions
Li Keqiang strikes conciliatory tone after combative comments from Trump trade pick
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PM Muscat must explain €11,000 expenditure in hotel in one week - PN; OPM responds
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat should be explaining how he spent €11,000 in a week in a hotel in Dubai, the Nationalist Party said in a statement.The PN said that the link that existed between Media.Link Communications with the entrepreneur who was given a prime site for development at a low ...
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Cina Italia
Pope Francis warns of 'very grave sin' when jobs are cut unjustly
Pope Francis said Wednesday that employers who fire workers for unclear economic reasons are committing a "very grave sin" and should ensure dignified work for all their employees.Francis made the comments at his Wednesday general audience after appealing for a resolution to a labor dispute at Sky Italia, where employees ...