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Toyota to shorten plants’ maximum operating hours

[ad_1] Nagoya – Toyota plans to shorten the maximum operating hours for its plants in Japan by 30 minutes per day, starting in the fiscal year 2024 that begins in April, people familiar with the matter said Friday. The move is designed to ensure product quality by allowing employees to work in a more flexible schedule following a series of certification irregularities at its group companies such as Daihatsu and Toyota Industries. Employees in Toyota's plant usually work in two […]

todayFebruary 3, 2024

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Aeon employees to receive 100% of income during child care leave

[ad_1] Major retailer Aeon plans to introduce a system this year to compensate employees who take child care leave with 100% of their take-home pay until their child is up to 1 year old, sources said Thursday.The system aims to alleviate financial concerns and encourage male employees to take child care leave.The program, which has no age limit, will be gradually rolled out from March to some 150 companies in the group, although the starting time and the period of […]

todayFebruary 3, 2024

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Afcon 2023: Increase in prize money key to gap narrowing, says Caf boss Motsepe

[ad_1] Motsepe is proud that this Nations Cup has been so thrilling to watch. "For all of the nations in Africa, the quality of football has increased enormously," Motsepe said."We need to get the spectators to enjoy watching our football. It's got to be appealing, it's got to be attractive, it's got to be exciting - because then it has a commercial value."And we can use some of that commercial value to pay our players and our technical teams and […]

todayFebruary 3, 2024

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Japanese retail investors pile billions into Indian equities

[ad_1] Japan’s retail investors are pouring money into Indian stocks amid bets that the nation will be the next China.Total assets of India equity-focused investment trusts in Japan grew 11%, or ¥237 billion ($1.6 billion), in January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Factoring in the gains of Indian stocks on a yen basis last month, the figures suggest inflows of about ¥140 billion into India equity funds, while Japanese stock funds had almost no net inflows.The investment into Indian […]

todayFebruary 3, 2024

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Africa: Is Italy’s $6bn Plan for Africa Just PR-Friendly Neocolonialism?

[ad_1] The Mattei Plan was drawn up without any input from African leaders and is named after the controversial founder of Italy's fossil fuels major. It is troubling that many African leaders who skipped the G77+China Summit in Uganda last week flocked to Rome this week to attend the Italy-Africa Summit. Summoned by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the grand Palazzo Madama, they were presented with the Mattei Plan for Africa. The operative word there is for Africa. As Moussa […]

todayFebruary 3, 2024

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Africa: How Reviving Old Crops Is the Key to Saving Africa’s Degraded Soils

[ad_1] Fertile soils are the key to meeting the world's exploding demand for food. With Africa set to become the most populous continent by the end of the century, repairing degraded and eroded soils on the continent is ever urgent, says US Special Envoy for Food Security Cary Fowler. RFI: A year ago, the US launched the Vision for Suitable Crops and Soils (Vacs) programme, which promotes a return to traditional crops. What is it about? Cary Fowler: It aims […]

todayFebruary 3, 2024

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DNA tests show dead man likely 1970s bombing fugitive in Japan

[ad_1] DNA tests have shown that a man who died earlier this week at a hospital is likely to be the person wanted for one of a series of terrorist bombings in Japan during the 1970s, investigative sources said Friday. The man confessed last month to being the alleged bomber, Satoshi Kirishima, who was a member of an extreme left-wing group. The DNA test results conducted on the suspect's relatives found that "there is no inconsistency in kinship" between them, […]

todayFebruary 3, 2024

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