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Giappone
Tourism surge puts shine on biz hotels, hostels
With the drastic increase in tourism, the lack of lodging in the nation’s biggest cities, particularly Tokyo and Osaka, is providing a major opportunity for those running two types of accommodations: “business hotels” and hostels. Japan’s so-called business hotels are known for offering simpler rooms at more affordable prices than ...
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Ghana
SIC Life goes into savings and loans to increase insurance penetration
One of Ghana’s leading insurance firms, SIC Life, has announced plans to reach more uninsured people through the setting up of a savings and loans company. The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Aaron Issa Anafure, made this known at its end of year staff durbar and get- together to ...
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Cina
The China Factor | Part 6: China Plans a New Trade Route, but Partners Are Wary
Beijing’s effort to revive ancient trade routes is causing geopolitical strains, with countries like Turkey increasingly worried about becoming too dependent on China.
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Angola
Banco Nacional de Angola agrava taxas de juro
O Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) agravou as taxas de juro de referência do mercado, designadamente a Taxa BNA, que passou de 10,5 para 11 por cento, de acordo com as mais recentes decisões da Comissão de Política Monetária da instituição
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Portogallo
STCP cumprem greve no dia de Natal
Os trabalhadores da Sociedade de Transportes Coletivos do Porto (STCP) estão, esta sexta-feira, a cumprir mais uma greve em protesto contra a redução em 50% das horas trabalhadas em dia feriado.
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Costa D'Avorio
Microfinance : Le groupe BP tisse sa toile africaine
Points: Après la Côte d’Ivoire, ouverture au Mali d’ici ...
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Cina Giappone
SMFG chief says ‘cautious’ approach to lending needed in slowing Asia
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.’s top executive said the bank needs to be cautious in its drive to boost lending in Asia, as a slowdown in China and the slump in commodity prices cloud the region’s economic outlook. While President Koichi Miyata said he has no intention of changing his ...
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Giappone
FTC warns Costco Japan, Baron Park for engaging in gasoline price war
The nation’s antimonopoly watchdog has issued a warning to two gasoline retailers, including the Japanese unit of U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale Corp., over a price war that it said could have threatened the activities of competitors. Costco Wholesale Japan Ltd. and Japanese oil products retailer Baron Park Co. sold regular ...
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Giappone
Bank of Japan has room to maintain easing, Suga says
The Bank of Japan still has policy options to continue its unprecedented monetary easing, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in an interview days after the central bank announced it would not expand its main stimulus target. “I think they still have policies they can pursue,” Suga said Wednesday at ...
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Giappone
Jobs to seekers ratio highest in nearly 24 years; unemployment up
The ratio of job openings to job seekers rose 0.01 point from the previous month to 1.25 in November after seasonal adjustment, hitting the highest since January 1992, as offers grew amid an economic recovery, the government said Friday in a data release. It is the first improvement in the ...