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Nigeria
Stop Enrolment Of Children Below 6 Years In Schools, Proprietor Urges NASS
A school proprietor, Malam Aliyu Badmus, has called on the National Assembly to make a law prohibiting parents from enrolling children under the age of six in schools. Badmus told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on yesterday in Ilorin that the falling standard of education in the country was ...
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Thailandia
SET opens up 3.96 to 1,581.80
Thai stocks opened up 0.25% at the start of trade this morning.
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Giappone
January saw Japan’s first trade deficit in five months, at ¥1.09 trillion
Japan posted its first goods trade deficit in five months in January, logging red ink of ¥1.09 trillion ($9.7 billion), as imports increased more than exports on rising commodity prices, the government said Monday. Imports marked their first gain in 25 months, up 8.5 percent from a year earlier to ...
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Giappone
Apple’s upcoming iPhone release keeping Foxconn unit vibrant
Growing optimism about the next iPhone has propelled Apple Inc. to record highs. Halfway around the globe, a lesser-known Taiwanese company is riding that same wave of euphoria. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the main assembler of the U.S. company’s smartphones, has gained 29 percent in the past year, with ...
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Giappone
Japan, Germany warned Mnuchin amid G-20 fears of currency policy shift
Within hours of being sworn in, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s counterparts from Tokyo to Berlin started telegraphing warnings to him: Please don’t call the yen weak. Be careful how you talk about cutting financial regulations — Europe is listening. As President Donald Trump waited a few weeks for the ...
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Giappone
Fuhrer’s phone fetches $243,000 from unnamed bidder, figurine of Hitler’s Alsatian goes for $24,300
A telephone owned by Adolf Hitler has sold at auction for $243,000. Andreas Kornfeld of Alexander Historical Auctions says the phone sold Sunday afternoon to a person who bid by phone. The auction house does not disclose the names of buyers. Bidding for the phone started at $100,000. The red ...
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Giappone
Tepco, Chubu Electric may integrate thermal power biz in 2018
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. and Chubu Electric Power Co. are considering integrating their thermal power generation business in fiscal 2018, a report said Monday. Tepco, an embattled utility facing the gigantic cost of dealing with the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, and Chubu Electric may ...
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Egitto Giappone
Japanese, Chinese travelers seen helping to revive Egypt tourism
Tourists are slowly returning to Egypt, easing pressure on a key sector battered by years of turmoil and the 2015 bombing of a plane carrying Russian holidaymakers. “There is an increase in the number of tourists. This situation was much better in January than in previous years,” tourism ministry spokeswoman ...
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Israele
Business in brief: Teva wins Copaxone respite after Momenta says its generic probably won’t launch in Q1
Delek affiliate Ithaca Energy begins North Sea production | MySize allocates shares at steep discount to unnamed investor | Tel Aviv shares end higher in light trading
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Kenya
Business: Ten internationally renown companies bid for highway tender
The 10 responded to the request for qualification issued by Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) on November 9, last year and closed on Friday afternoon.