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Giappone
Coca-Cola-Kirin soft-drink capital tie-up mulled for saturated Japan market
The Coca-Cola group and Kirin Holdings Co. are considering forming a capital tie-up and launching joint operations in Japan’s soft-drink market, where little growth potential is seen due to the country’s declining population. Kirin, Coca-Cola East Japan Co. and Coca-Cola West Co. said in separate releases Wednesday that they are ...
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Giappone
Apple quarterly profit off 19% as iPhone sales slip but Cook upbeat
Apple said Tuesday its profit over the past quarter fell 19 percent to $9 billion, pulled down by a widely expected drop in iPhone sales. The world’s biggest company by market value said revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter fell to $46.9 billion from $51.5 billion a year earlier. The ...
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Giappone
Japan has logged 236 passenger overbookings aboard airliners since 2012
There have been 236 cases in Japan since 2012 in which the number of air passengers who followed all preboarding procedures was different from that of passengers who boarded a flight, the transport ministry said Tuesday. In five of the cases, more passengers than a plane’s capacity were found on ...
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Giappone
Axed Iowa Hispanic sues, claims co-workers harassed her with Trump images
A Hispanic woman says her white co-workers at an Iowa claims office used images of Donald Trump to racially harass her for months after they learned she was angered by his description of Mexican immigrants as rapists, according to a civil rights lawsuit she filed against her company. Alexandra Avila’s ...
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USA Giappone
Trump urged to launch ‘bro’ channel as rich snub brand, new DC inn cuts rates
Event planner Beth Bernstein decided she had had enough with Donald Trump after his 2005 hot-mic boasts about groping women came to light earlier this month. She removed photos of weddings she had thrown at a Trump hotel in Chicago from her website, wrote to hotel staff to remove her ...
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USA Corea del Sud
Lotte Group to Invest 40 Tril. Won for 5 Years and Hire 70,000...Lotte Chairman
Shin Dong-bin, chairman of Lotte Group, said that his company would contribute to the national economy by investing 40 trillion won (US$35.4 billion) and hiring 70,000 new workers for the next five years. Mr. Shin said this in a press conference on October 25 at Lotte Hotel Seoul, adding, "In ...
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Etiopia
Untangling Ethiopia's Export Mixed Bag
[Addis Fortune] Ethiopia has around 128 destinations for its exports, which can be classified into three major categories:
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USA Nigeria
Reps seeks US congress support on legislative development
The House of Representatives’ members have solicited for the support of their counterparts in the United States parliament to strengthen the country’s legislative capacity and procedures. Hon. Johnson Agbonayinma, Chairman, House ad – hoc committee on Nigeria-United States Relations made the solicitation yesterday while receiving a delegation from House Democracy ...
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USA Nigeria
Reps Seek US Collaboration on Legislative Procedures
The House of Representatives in Tuesday solicited the collaboration of their counterparts in the United States parliament to strengthen the country’s legislative procedures. Chairman, ad-hoc committee on Nigeria-United States relations, Johnson Agbonayinma, stated this during a meeting with a delegation from House Democracy Partnership (HDP) of the US House ...
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Nigeria
Diasporas Can Save The Nation From Recession – Dabiri-Erewa
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa has said that the federal government is looking to draw on the vast resources of its diaspora to help develop the country and also save the country from economic recession. Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this in Abuja, ...