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EU provides €12.3 million to enhance disaster preparedness capacity across Asia and the Pacific
Source: European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office Country: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Viet NamThe latest allocation brings ECHO's total funding for disaster preparedness programmes in the region to more than €140 million since 1996, including €27 million in ...
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Giappone
Tokyo stationery fair draws crowds eager to see latest in school, corporate supplies
Crowds of representatives from home improvement centers, supermarkets and other stores flocked to Japan’s largest stationery and office products fair on Thursday to take in the latest innovations in work supplies. The 27th International Stationery and Office Products Fair Tokyo drew the participation of a record 345 companies this year ...
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Giappone
Company known for mobile games starting driverless bus service
DeNA Co., best known as a mobile video game maker, said on Thursday it will launch a driverless bus service at a park in Chiba Prefecture from next month. The Tokyo-based firm said it has partnered with EasyMile S.A., a French startup that manufactures self-driving buses. There are not many ...
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Giappone
Bank of Japan cuts assessment of two regional economies
The Bank of Japan downgraded its economic assessment of two of the country’s nine regions on Thursday, citing damage caused by the Kyushu earthquakes in April and slowing personal consumption amid falling share prices. The central bank downgraded its assessment of the Chugoku region and of the Kyushu and Okinawa ...
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Giappone
Dollar hovers around ¥101 in range-bound trading
The dollar hovered around ¥101 in Tokyo trading late Thursday after moving in a narrow range in the absence of major trading factors. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.02-02, up slightly from ¥100.98-99 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1063-1063, roughly unchanged from $1.1065-1065, and ...
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Giappone
Japan Atomic Power to join Hitachi’s nuclear plant business in Britain
Japan Atomic Power Co. will join Hitachi Ltd.’s nuclear power plant business in Britain, informed sources said Thursday. The two companies will soon sign a cooperation agreement to make Japan Atomic Power the first Japanese power supplier to take part in an overseas nuclear power plant business in full scale. ...
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Giappone
Ruby Roman grapes fetch record ¥1.1 million in season’s first auction
A batch of Ruby Roman table grapes, one of the most expensive in Japan, fetched a record ¥1.1 million ($10,900) Thursday in the year’s first auction at a wholesale market in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, beating last year’s ¥1 million bid. Of the 46 batches of Ruby Roman grapes auctioned off, ...
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Giappone
Mizuho to spur small-business advisory income by adding 200 more bankers
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is increasing its pool of bankers who advise small Japanese businesses on matters ranging from investing to going public as part of a push to spur fee income at the nation’s third-biggest banking group. Tokyo-based Mizuho seeks to boost the number of bankers covering small and ...
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Francia
Abu Dhabi, Paris sign deal for greater financial ties
Abu Dhabi Global Market and Paris Europlace ink agreement to work on areas such as Fintech and green finance
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Francia
Paris Europlace : Mon ami, c’est le capital-risque
Plutôt que dérouler le tapis rouge fiscal au monde de la finance, la France devrait améliorer son attractivité en matière de capital-risque.