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USA Giappone
U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin, from Wall Street to Hollywood to G-20 meeting
Newly installed U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who will make his first international outing at the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers on Friday and Saturday, is a banker with an unusual resume. Not quite a household name before being tapped for the Treasury post by President Donald Trump, ...
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USA Giappone
Stability of ailing Westinghouse parent Toshiba is vital, U.S. tells Japan
U.S. Cabinet members told Japanese industry minister Hiroshige Seko on Thursday that the United States regards the fiscal stability of Toshiba Corp., the ailing parent company of Westinghouse Electric Co., as extremely important. Speaking to reporters after separate talks with Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in ...
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USA Giappone
Pennsylvania blaze blamed on exploding hoverboard claims second child
A second child has died from a fire in Pennsylvania that fire officials blamed on an exploding hoverboard, a coroner said Thursday. The deaths — if definitively linked to the two-wheeled, battery-powered scooter — would be the first in the United States caused by a hoverboard fire. A county coroner ...
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Giappone
Yamato Transport eases hours of service for drivers
Yamato Transport Co.’s management and labor have agreed to carry out reforms for the parcel delivery time slots to improve work conditions for its drivers, sources said Thursday. The leading door-to-door parcel delivery firm will scrap the slot between noon and 2 p.m. in June to make it easier for ...
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Giappone
Tokyo court clears ex-Novartis employee of Diovan drug ad exaggeration charge
A former employee of the Japanese unit of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG was found not guilty Thursday of exaggerating advertising claims for the blood pressure-lowering drug Diovan. Besides clearing 66-year-old Nobuo Shirahashi of a violation under a pharmaceutical affairs law that bans fraudulent and exaggerated advertising, the Tokyo District ...
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Giappone
Japanese-U.S. consortium eyed to buy Toshiba chip biz so Asia rivals can’t
The idea of forming a Japanese-U.S. consortium has been floated to beat possible Chinese, Taiwanese and South Korean bidders in an auction of Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory business, Jiji Press learned on Thursday. The move comes as the Japanese government and industry are eager to maintain the struggling maker’s technologies ...
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Giappone
Canada debuts strict rules for recreational drone users
Canada is bringing in strict measures and fines for recreational users of drones. Transport Minister Marc Garneau on Thursday announced restrictions to curb the number of incidents in which recreational drones have come too close to planes, which has more than tripled since 2014. Recreational drone operators must now mark ...
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Giappone
Google deploys ‘quality raters’ to flag offensive search results
Google is now directing its review teams to flag content that might come across as upsetting or offensive in search results. The review teams — comprised of contractors known as “quality raters” — already comb through websites and other content to flag questionable items such as pornography. Google added a ...
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Nigeria
No Duty Too High To Save Hameed Ali
In the last two years since Hameed Ali was appointed Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, I do not recall ever seeing him in uniform. But since the retired army colonel is not harming himself or any third party by not wearing uniform, I have gradually reconciled myself to ...
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USA Francia Nigeria Regno Unito
London-Paris Club Refund: PMB Orders Release Of Second Tranche To States
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to act appropriately and with dispatch in releasing the second tranche of the London-Paris Club refunds to the states in order to ease their financial burdens. ...