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Giappone Australia Nuova Zelanda
The big city that is also pleasant to live in
“ONLY THUMBS stood up from the flatlands—the chimneys of bath-houses, heavy house safes and an occasional stout building with heavy iron shutters,” wrote Russell Brines, the first foreign journalist to enter Tokyo after the second world war. From a pre-war population of 7m people, only 3.5m were left. As Tokyo ...
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Giappone
Letting more migrants in by stealth
TAKEUCHI MASANOBU has a message for his compatriots: “If you order something, it arrives on time, if you go to the convenience store, you have cheap, good, food—that’s all sustained by foreigners.” Across Japan, foreigners are key in industries from farming to retailing. Vietnamese can be found in the fields ...
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Cina USA Giappone Hong Kong
A country that is on the front line
JAPAN’S NEW imperial era began in spring 2019, when a nondescript man in a dark suit revealed its name: Reiwa. The first character, rei, means “auspicious” or “orderly”; wa means “harmony” or “peace” (officials chose “beautiful harmony” as the English rendering). For the first time the name came not from ...
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Portogallo
Greve no Metro do Porto com adesão total entre associados do Sindicato dos Maquinistas
“Aceitamos os aumentos propostos pela empresa, o problema aqui é a vigência do acordo. A empresa quer impor a vigência para três anos, nós só queremos para dois”, afirmou Hélder Silva.
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Portogallo
Produção industrial diminuiu 10,6% em Portugal no ano passado
Em 2020, o total das vendas de produtos e prestação de serviços nas indústrias transformadoras fixou-se em 84,2 mil milhões de euros, um valor que pode ser comparado com os 94,1 mil milhões de euros de 2019. Para esta variação negativa contribuíram de forma mais intensa os produtos petrolíferos e ...
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Brasile
Petrobras vende três usinas termelétricas localizadas na Bahia
A Petrobras concluiu nesta segunda-feira (6) a venda das três usinas termelétricas movidas a óleo combustível localizadas em Camaçari, na Bahia, para a São Francisco Energia S.A., subsidiária da Global Participações em Energia S.A. A operação foi concluída com o pagamento de R$ 61 milhões à Petrobras, já considerando os ...
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Corea del Sud
Trade Week provides export chances for Seoul SMEs
Trade Week 2021 -- the Seoul Business Agency’s global trade conference, established to offer export opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises in Seoul -- began its four-day run Tuesday. The SBA, a city-run agency that supports SMEs
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Indonesia Corea del Sud
S. Korea secures stable urea supply from Indonesia for next 3 years
South Korea will be able to import around 120,000 tons of urea per year from Indonesia over the next three years, a move expected to help prevent a supply crunch of the key industry material here, Seoul's industry ministry said Tuesday. The agreemen
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USA Nigeria
Heritage Bank Supports Farmers In 14 States On N41bn Wheat Disbursement Project
Heritage Bank Plc in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has set up plans to disburse the sum of N41billion to farmers from 14 states for the expansion of wheat production project. The bank, however, will register the wheat farmers with the Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE) ...
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Nigeria
Senate Wants MDCN To Blacklist Substandard Foreign Medical Institutions
The Senate Committee on Health has urged the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) to blacklist foreign medical institutions that do not meet its requirements on training and practice of medicine in Nigeria. The chairman of the committee, Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe (APC-Kwara) made the call in Abuja on Monday ...