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Giappone
Ex-Panasonic chief Morishita, who helped firm recover after bubble burst, dead at 82
Yoichi Morishita, former president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., now Panasonic Corp., died of liver failure at a hospital in Osaka on Sunday. He was 82. As fifth president of Matsushita, between February 1993 and June 2000, Morishita worked to turn around the company following the collapse of Japan’s bubble ...
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Giappone
State-backed INCJ to inject ¥75 billion in Japan Display
Innovation Network Corp. of Japan, a government-affiliated investment fund, said Wednesday it will provide up to ¥75 billion in financial support to Japan Display Inc. INCJ, the top shareholder of Japan Display, decided on the aid as the display maker found it difficult to procure funds for strategic investment on ...
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Cina Giappone
Trump taps regulatory foe Icahn to advise on reform, ‘Death by China’ author to head trade body
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he is naming billionaire Carl Icahn, a vocal critic of government overregulation, to serve as a special adviser to overhaul “strangling regulations.” The 80-year-old Icahn, who is known as aggressive, activist investor in the companies he is involved with, will not be a government employee, ...
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Giappone
Apple quest for OLED screens for next-generation iPhones hinges on sole supplier Canon Tokki
Apple Inc.’s quest to adopt advanced displays for its next-generation iPhone hinges on a single supplier in the Japanese countryside. Canon Tokki Corp., surrounded by rice fields in the city of Mitsuke in Niigata Prefecture, has a near monopoly on the machines capable of making screens with organic light-emitting diodes, ...
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Giappone
Cabinet OKs record-high ¥97.45 trillion budget as social security, defense outlays swell
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday approved a record-high ¥97.45 trillion budget for fiscal 2017, as swelling social security costs moved Japan further away from its goal of reining in overall spending and restoring its tattered fiscal health. The budget for the year starting in April also ...
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Giappone
Obama seen saving U.S. economy but losing country in process as Trump exploits disconnect
He was a first-term senator-turned-president, a former law professor with little experience in economics or management. When he entered the White House he had one essential task: piece together the shards of a shattered U.S. economy. It wasn’t smooth and it wasn’t fast. But President Barack Obama will leave behind, ...
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Brasile
Homem abre fogo em prédio da Caixa em Salvador e deixa dois feridos
Uma pessoa morreu e outras duas ficaram feridas na tarde desta quarta-feira (21/12), após um funcionário da Caixa Econômica Federal efetuar vários disparos no prédio em que trabalhava, na avenida Luís Viana — popularmente conhecida como Paralela —, uma das mais movimentadas de Salvador (BA). Leia mais notícias em Brasil De acordo ...
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Portogallo
Homem morre pendurado em poste depois de receber descarga elétrica
Um homem foi encontrado morto, pendurado no alto de um poste de sustentação de rede elétrica, na manhã desta quarta-feira (21/12), na zona rural de Marília, interior de São Paulo. De acordo com a Polícia Civil, a hipótese é de que a vítima estivesse tentando furtar fios ...
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Nigeria
Whistle blowers to get 5% of looted fund
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved the payment of 5 per cent of recovered looted fund to the whistle blower behind the recovery. Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun briefed State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari. With her were the Minister ...
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Nigeria
The man Air Commodore Mohammed
Air Commodore Umar Mohammed headed the Air Force properties and the Air Force Holding Company during his career in the military. He retired in 2014 and went into business including in property and aviation sectors. He ran a private jet firm with a fleet of about 10 aircraft and a ...