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Giappone
Hitachi opens first U.S. train plant to build Metrorail cars in Miami
Hitachi Ltd. has opened a train manufacturing plant in Miami, its first in the United States, to build Metrorail vehicles for the area. Hitachi Rail USA will build 136 cars at the factory to replace Miami-Dade County’s Metrorail fleet beginning this month, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement Thursday. ...
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Giappone
Disaster redress, market pressures, liberalization threaten Tepco’s survival
After weathering a management crisis with state assistance, Tokyo Electric Power Co. faces the daunting challenge of paying for the lion’s share of an estimated ¥10 trillion in costs associated with the nuclear disaster that started in March 2011. Five years after the nation’s worst atomic crisis erupted, the nationalized ...
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Giappone
Tokyo stocks slide on yen’s rise
Stocks fell for the third consecutive session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, due chiefly to selling of large-cap export-oriented names, reflecting the yen’s appreciation. The Nikkei average lost 38.07 points, or 0.22 percent, to end at 16,936.38. On Wednesday, it fell 142.62 points. The Topix index sagged 1.53 ...
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Giappone
Vehicle sales expected to spurt 6.5% in fiscal 2016 as tax hike nears
New vehicle sales in fiscal 2016 are expected to rise 6.5 percent more than estimated for the current year to 5.26 million units for the first rebound in three years, an industry body said Thursday. The rebound, however, is being projected on a surge in demand before the second stage ...
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Giappone
Dollar slumps below ¥112 in Tokyo
The dollar slumped below ¥112 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, as risk-averse players bought the yen following a fall in Japanese stock prices. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥111.74-76, down from ¥113.66-67 the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1259-1260, up from $1.1085-1086, and at ¥125.84-84, down ...
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Egitto Giappone
Nissan halts Egyptian plant expansion over currency access snag
Nissan Motor Co.’s Egyptian unit has frozen a plant expansion project in Cairo due to a lack of access to foreign currency that prompted policy changes this week by the central bank to help investors from abroad. Nissan Motor Egypt, the second-largest automaker in the country, has yet to determine ...
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India
India banks will chase liquor baron for ‘every penny’: Minister
Indian banks will strive to recover “every penny” from a beleaguered liquor baron who left the country owing more than $1 billion, the finance minister said on March 17, as warnings sound over a mounting bad debt problem
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Egitto
European Investment Fund, Turkish bank sign deal for innovative businesses
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Türkiye Sinai Kalkınma Bankası (TSKB) have signed an agreement for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
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Francia
Incidents à Paris en marge de la manifestation étudiante contre la loi sur le travail
Des casseurs se seraient immiscés dans le cortège qui reliait les places de la République et de la Nation.
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Nicaragua
Demandan más banda ancha para educación
Los socios de la Cámara Nicaragüense de Internet y Telecomunicaciones (Canitel), conocida también como Asociación de Internet de Nicaragua (AIN),[...]