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Australia
Buffalo stampede threatens cattle trade
CANBERRA/JAKARTA: Indonesians’ growing appetite for red meat needed to make rendang curries and to flavor noodle soups is putting the world’s biggest seaborne cattle trade at risk.
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Thailandia
Warehouse supply to fall on export lag
New supply of warehouse space is expected to fall as Thai exports experience a downturn from the continued global slowdown, according to property consultant Knight Frank Thailand.
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Nigeria
Internet of Things: Catalyst for Nigeria’s smart cities
Futurists have long painted a vision of the revolutionary “smart city,” a gleaming metropolis of clean streets and punctual public transport, where issues of crime, congestion and pollution have been engineered into irrelevance. A great deal of people believes that building the smart city will be extremely disruptive, but the ...
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Giappone
In major setback for Abenomics, BOJ gives up hitting inflation target during Kuroda term
The Bank of Japan acknowledged defeat Tuesday in its quest to achieve its 2 percent inflation goal during Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda’s term through April 2018, dealing a major setback to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Abenomics policy mix that was designed to tame prolonged deflation. The central bank, however, ...
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Giappone
Over 70 rights groups want Facebook to explain content-removal policy
More than 70 rights groups asked Facebook on Monday to clarify its policies for removing content, especially at the behest of governments, alleging the company has repeatedly censored postings that document human rights violations. In a letter sent to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, the organizations criticize the social media ...
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Giappone
Trump movement to change GOP here to stay, win or lose, tech billionaire Thiel says
Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel, a lightning rod for criticism in Silicon Valley for his support of Donald Trump, predicted on Monday that the movement the Republican presidential nominee has created would carry on even if he loses his bid for the White House on Nov. 8. “No matter what ...
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Giappone
Google users get cat-against-ghosts Halloween game treat
Google is offering users a treat this Halloween with a Harry Potter-like game. Monday’s Google Doodle gives users the chance to help a wand-wielding cat named Momo make its way through a wizard academy and defeat ghosts by doodling lines on the screen. In a blog post, the search engine ...
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Giappone
Ottawa siblings win Airbnb contest to sleep Halloween night in Dracula castle coffins
A Canadian brother and sister are passing Halloween night curled up in red velvet-lined coffins in the Transylvanian castle that inspired the Dracula legend, the first time in 70 years anyone has spent the night in the gothic fortress. The siblings from Ottawa bested 88,000 people who entered a competition ...
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USA Giappone
New York law targeting commercial operators of illegal hotels seen hurting small-scale Airbnb ranks
Jordan Reeves works for a nonprofit and his partner is a puppeteer. They say there’s not a lot of spare income floating around their Brooklyn apartment. That’s why they sometimes rent the place through Airbnb for extra cash when they’re not there. But a new law that carries fines of ...
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Nigeria
Africa retains only 1% of $1trn annual maritime trade – AU
The African Union has said that the value of annual maritime trade within the African continent is in excess of $1 trillion. Ship financing consultant to the AU, Mr. Oumar Seck, who spoke at the Nigeria Ship Financing Conference and Exhibition with the theme: Financing ‘Sustainable Maritime Development in Nigeria’ ...