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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. ...
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Nigeria
Naira Firms As CBN Clears More BDC For Dollar Sales
The value of the naira firmed at the parallel market as the Central Bank of Nigeria sold more dollars to banks as well as bureau de change operators. Having sold $150 million to authorized foreign exchange dealers on Wednesday, the apex bank also offered $100 million at the interbank market ...
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Nigeria
Ile – Ife: Arewa Youth Group Appeals For Peace
Worried by ethnic crisis that recently engufed Ile – Ife in Osun state, the Arewa Youth Forum, (AYF) yesterday called on all citizens to eschew peace and understanding. Rising from it meeting in Kaduna, the group it was worried that some ethnic jingoist can take the law into their hands ...