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Giappone
Airbnb home-sharing war heats up in Japan
Sarah Takeda thought she had a good little business renting a traditional tatami-mat room in her house on Airbnb. But she and other hosts in Japan are learning the hard way that the home-sharing site’s fastest-growing market is also becoming the next flash point in a global battle over the ...
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Giappone
Favored by Obama, TPP deal draws ire at Dem, GOP conventions
It is 30 chapters long and almost nobody has read it, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is the unlikely villain at both political conventions. In Philadelphia this week, opponents interrupted Democratic National Convention speakers with chants of “No TPP” and expressed relief that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton opposed ...
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Giappone
Tesla car on Autopilot was speeding at time of fatal Florida crash
Federal investigators say the driver who was killed when his Tesla sedan crashed while in self-driving mode was speeding just before hitting the side of a tractor-trailer. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Tuesday that the Tesla Model S was traveling at 74 mph in a ...
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Cina Giappone
Nissan snubs UAW pressure in Mississippi, refuses to meet French lawmaker
Officials at Nissan’s auto plant in Canton, Mississippi, refused to meet Tuesday with a French legislator seeking information on workers’ efforts to organize a union. Christian Hutin, a member of France’s National Assembly, was in Mississippi on a fact-finding mission on working conditions at Nissan, which is partly controlled by ...
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Giappone
Panel agrees to boost Japan’s minimum wage by ¥24
A government advisory panel on Tuesday agreed to recommend raising the country’s average minimum hourly wage by ¥24, or 3 percent, for fiscal 2016. The increase will bring the average minimum wage to ¥822 for the year that started in April. This marks the fifth straight year of double-digit rise ...
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Giappone
Libya army chief threatens to target tankers that try to reach warlord-held oil terminals under U.N. deal
Libya’s chief of staff on Tuesday threatened to target foreign oil tankers if they entered territorial waters, after a controversial deal was struck between the United Nations envoy and a militia commander in control of the oil terminals. The agreement between U.N. Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler and militia leader ...
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Paraguay
La Cepal pronostica un crecimiento de apenas 2,8% para el Paraguay
Proyección del organismo es menos optimista que la estimación del Banco Central, de 3,5% anual de expansión del PIB. No obstante, la estimación para el país es la cuarta más alta de Sudamérica.
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Paraguay
En junio hubo un leve aumento de tarjetas
De mayo a junio se introdujeron al mercado unas 3.420 tarjetas de crédito, totalizando de esta forma 918.615 plásticos en el sistema bancario, según los registros del boletín financiero del Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP).
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Colombia
Usuarios piden más presión a Colombia
Ante los intentos de Colombia de dilatar el cumplimiento a lo dictado en el fallo de la Organización mundial de Comercio (...
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Brasile
Tarifas de cooperativas de distribuição de energia da Região Sul são reajustadas
A Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (Aneel) aprovou hoje (26), os reajustes tarifários de quatro cooperativas de energia do Rio Grande do Sul, que entram em vigor no próximo sábado (30). Três cooperativas terão redução no valor das tarifas. Para a Cooperativa de Energia Coprel, que atende a 51,3 mil ...