Making the world’s biggest city beautiful is a task Japan’s beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. is unlikely to relish. The company known as Tepco, which faces $144 billion in clean up costs for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, Read more
A japanese mogul and SoftBank founder, Masayoshi Son has known from taking on the United States biggest telephone companies for creating a $100 billion fund for technology deals, had a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. Another huge pledge made by Read more
In what could be described as Rodrigo Duterte’s most conciliatory statement in relation to the US, the Philippines president has softened his stance regarding “separation” from Washington. He claimed that his previous comments regarding breaking ties with the long-term ally, Read more
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) has filed its shingles vaccine Shingrix for U.S. regulatory approval, the drugmaker said on Monday, bringing the potential $1 billion (0.81 billion pound)-a-year seller a step closer to market. Shingrix is viewed by analysts as among the British Read more
TOKYO — The first woman to climb Mount Everest didn’t stop there. Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, who died Thursday at 77, devoted her adult life to scaling peaks, climbing the tallest mountains in more than 70 countries. Her philosophy was to Read more
Global stocks were set for their first weekly gain in four weeks on Friday and the dollar rose to its highest since March, as the euro came under pressure after the European Central Bank shot down talk of tapering its Read more
TOKYO (AP) ” International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach expressed willingness Tuesday to work with Tokyo officials to try to reduce spiraling cost estimates for the 2020 Summer Games. Bach arrived in Japan amid growing tension between Olympic organizers and Read more
ONTARIO, Sept 24 — New international research has shown just how fit our kids are across the world, and for some countries the news is not good. Carried out by an international team of researchers led by the Children’s Hospital Read more
Diplomats in the Philippines are in talks with counterparts in Japan and China to arrange visits for their controversial President Rodrigo Duterte at the end of next month, officials in Manila said on Friday. Dates were still being worked out Read more
China’s first sky train came off the assembly line in the city of Nanjing, making it third country after Germany and Japan to develop the technology. The Nanjing Puzhen Company Limited, affiliated to China’s largest state-owned rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Read more