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Giappone
Poll finds 14% of Japanese adults living alone have no cash in the bank
Fourteen percent of Japanese adults living alone have no money in the bank to guard themselves for rainy days, according to a recent survey of several thousand people by the nation’s Central Council for Financial Services Information. The annual research by the council, which is run by the Bank of ...
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Russia Giappone Vietnam
Vietnam looks to delay Japan-, Russia-backed nuclear plants amid funds crunch
Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party in October instructed government authorities to revise plans to build nuclear power plants with Russian and Japanese assistance with a view to delaying them due to the government’s tight finances, it was learned Sunday from party and government sources. The government is now working on a ...
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Giappone
Ministry to stiffen curbs on smartphone discounts
A panel appointed by the communications ministry will call for bolstering guidelines aimed at preventing excessive discounts for smartphones, it has been learned. The proposal on Monday will stress that better standards are needed to check whether consumers are being charged legitimate fees, a draft of the document viewed Saturday ...
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Egitto Turchia Indonesia Iran Nigeria
D-8 Countries Plan To Increase Trade Volume To $500bn By 2023
The Chambers of Commerce and Industry in eight developing countries known as D-8 made up of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria and Turkey have resolved to carry out works and prepare a road map to increase trade volume between the member countries to $500billion by 2023. This was contained ...
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Kenya
Kenya: Eldoret's Rivatex targets global textile market
The national government has embarked on modernising Eldoret-based Rivatex to increase the production of textile products and attract the global export market.
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Kenya
Kenya: Kenya steps up campaign for Amina's AU job
President Uhuru Kenyatta has intensified efforts to support Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed's quest for the African Union (AU) chairperson's slot.
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Etiopia
Messahel to represent President Bouteflika at meeting of AU's High level committee on Libya
ALGIERS-Minister of Maghreb Affairs, the African Union and the Arab League Abdelakder Messahel will represent President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the meeting of the African Union's High level committee on Libya on 8 November 2016 in Addis Abeba, announced Sunday the Foreign Affairs Ministry in a communiqué. ...
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USA Kenya
Former Street Boy Clothes Slum Dwellers
Through his 'Mng'aro Mtaani' community-based organisation, Samuel 'Torez' Oduor ensures that people who live and work at dumpsites in Nairobi dress decently. In his one bedroom house in Babadogo, Nairobi, his two jovial children play with a doll, maybe not aware what their father Samuel Oduor, also known as Torez, ...
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Kenya
Business News: Relief for Imperial Bank as court thwarts CBK's liquidation bid
The High Court in Nairobi has stopped the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) from liquidating Imperial Bank Ltd (IBL) until the relevant legal provisions are complied with.
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Kenya
Business: Relief for Imperial Bank as court thwarts CBK's liquidation bid
The High Court in Nairobi has stopped the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) from liquidating Imperial Bank Ltd (IBL) until the relevant legal provisions are complied with.