TOKYO (Reuters) – Nidec said on Sunday that it is teaming up with Brazilian firm Embraer to form a new company that will make parts for flying cars and be set up in the United States. The new firm, to be known as Nidec Aerospace, will be based in St Louis, making use of existing …
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By Philip Blenkinsop (Reuters) – European countries should strengthen relations with Taiwan if they want continued Taiwanese investment in semiconductor production, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said during a visit to Europe last week. Overseas investments by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, need government approval, including for a potential factory in …
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Shahid Mehmood, a retired Pakistani civil servant, tried his best to persuade his son not to make the trip to Europe in search of a better life. But 25-year-old Shehryar Sultan was determined to go. Now, the father fears his son was among those lost in a disastrous boat capsize off Greece …
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By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD (Reuters) – Some 1,500 villages were still without electricity in India’s western state of Gujarat, officials said on Saturday, as coastal areas recovered from the impact of this week’s cyclone Biparjoy. That was down from initial outages in more than 4,600 villages in Saurashtra and Kutch, where the cyclone made landfall …
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By Sumit Khanna and Manoj Kumar AHMEDABAD,India/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s western states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and other coastal regions are on alert after meteorologists warned that a cyclonic storm over the Arabian sea would intensify over the next 24 hours. Authorities have told fishing communities to halt operations for the next five days …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese government and several of its largest banks are set to launch within the month a “green transformation” programme aiming to eventually attract 150 trillion yen ($1.06 trillion) in investment over the next decade, the Nikkei Shimbun newspaper reported on Saturday. The project, which will include banks such as Mitsubishi UFJ …
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s central bank said on Saturday it has smooth communication channels with the U.S. Treasury Department and will keep talking with them about foreign exchange policies, after the United States kept the island on a monitoring list. Treasury said on Friday it found that no major U.S. trading partners had manipulated their …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to stoke competition in smartphone app payments, dominated by Apple and Google, by banning major app store operators from forcing software developers to use the operators’ own payment systems, a government panel said. The final report by the panel, released on Friday, also said major suppliers of smartphone operating systems …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he supports South Korea’s efforts to develop a “healthy and mature” cooperative relationship with China, South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. Blinken, who arrives in Beijing on Sunday for the highest-level visit by an official of President Joe Biden’s administration, discussed bilateral relations, relations …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s security minister, Tom Tugendhat, met Taiwan’s digital minister on Wednesday, people with knowledge of the talks said, a meeting that breaks with conventional British foreign policy and risks infuriating the Chinese government. Britain only has formal diplomatic relations with Beijing, but maintains a de facto embassy in Taipei. …
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