Latest in Tag: Japan Highlight
Latest in Tag: Japan

Japan’s Rakuten buys chat app Viber for $900m to expand digital empire
Rakuten ID users will jump to half a billion with Viber addition

Japan to provide industrial training in Egyptian factories: Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade
Minister announces training programme to accelerate industrial processes with Japanese technical assistance, with a focus on metal and plastics industries.

Talks on trade in green goods planned
Green goods cover a wide range of goods from waste management and clean water technologies, to solar and wind energies.

IMF sees slightly stronger global growth
The fund increased its estimate for world growth this year slightly to 3.7%, after 3.0% in 2013, while warning that the rebound of the world economy is still “weak and uneven”.

Egypt has repaid $700m to Paris Club: CBE
The Paris Club is comprised of 19 developed economies.

Fahmy meets Japanese PM and FM
Foreign Minister met with top Japanese officials before concluding his Asia tour

$4.8bn investment deal signed in South Korea
Petrochemical plant will be constructed in Ain Sokhna and is expected to create 20,000 jobs during construction and a further 20,000 jobs to operate the plant once built

Egypt seeking to diversify foreign alternatives without affecting existing relationships: Fahmy in China
Minister of Foreign Affairs thanks China for downgrading travel warning

Assailants stab Japan diplomat in Yemen capital
The spokesman said he had been driving ahead of the consul, but when he arrived at the embassy, the consul was no longer following.

Fahmy departs for tour of Asia
Foreign minister to focus on Egypt’s economy on second visit to Asia

Abdel Nour calls on Japanese car companies to increase investments in Egypt
Japanese ambassador expressed his country’s desire to expand economic cooperation with Egypt in a meeting with Abdel Nour

Nintendo to stop making Wii console for Japan market
Since its release in 2006 Wii has sold more than 100 million units in the world.

Curfew will not affect tourism industry: tourism officials
Officials in the tourism sector argue that the extension of the curfew will not affect the already damaged tourism industry.

Egypt requests Japan consider lifting travel ban
Ministers stress importance of Japanese tourism to Egypt

Fahmy slams EU for ‘late condemnation of terror’
Egypt refuses equivalence between security force procedures and terror: Fahmy

Flights to Egypt unaffected by violence
“We are in the season of Umrah [a high travel season] and we are functioning properly,”

Japan automakers step on profit accelerator
The Camry and Corolla maker, which last year overtook General Motors to regain the title of world’s biggest automaker, said things would get even better

G7 states meet in UK as US presses Europe on austerity
The G7 nations, which together produce about half of the world’s economic output, are slowly recovering from a late 2012 slowdown
In Pictures: Balloon crash 18 killed, 3 injured
Tourists from France, UK, Japan, Honk Kong and Hungary involved in a hot air balloon crash near Luxor

Balloon crash: 18 killed, 3 injured
Citizens of France, UK, Japan and Hong Kong aboard hot air balloon that caught fire near Luxor

Electricity and energy ministry to hold bid for BOO power station in Dairut
Minister of electricity and energy: Dairut factory will be the first of its kind in Egypt to operate on a BOO scheme

Powerful quake shakes buildings in Tokyo
Triggering a tsunami alert o

Japan’s ruling party promises to phase out nuclear power
Japan goes to the polls on December 16, with most commentators expecting no party to gain overall control of the powerful lower house

Rock of Asia: acoustic music from Japan
Rock of Asia will stay in Cairo for one week and will be performing in several different venues

Rebel Economy Wrap
Made in Asia – China and Japan in North Africa, Saudi-style revolution

Former PM Abe wins Japan opposition party vote
Shinzo Abe might secure PM position in the next general elections
China postpones ceremony marking ties with Japan
China postpones ceremony marking ties with Japan

Oil prices slide in nervous market
“The sudden sharp decline in crude oil prices late last night in New York remains a mystery today,” said CMC Markets analyst Michael Hewson

Anti-Japanese protests continue across China
Territorial dispute over uninhabited islands reignites old tensions as anti-Japanese protests shut down major Japanese companies in China

Japanese companies shut down factories in China
Honda, Mazda and Panasonic halting production