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Anti-poverty group One, set up by rock star Bono, said Italy had actually cut aid to Africa despite making ambitious pledges at a 2005 economic...
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In my place of work there is no check on an employee’s movement, and me being one, I keep loitering around for most of the day all unchecked. Employers in Japan have...
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Is any UN legislation in place as Russia is going to dig up Helium on the Moon in 2015 and Japan has found Uranium recently?
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Japanese unemployment rose to its highest in almost six years in May, raising concerns over the recovery of the world’s second-largest economy.
The unemployment...
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Twitting with just about anything is the latest go ahead. While radios and plants have done it already, nerds have even got an entire house to tweet. Stepping further...
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Inspired by the Nature, formation of the clouds and the mountains (Mount Fuji found in Japanese woodblock prints of Hokusai), the Tokyo-based 16A Architecture Studio...
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Filed under: News, Weird, Geek Out How do you celebrate the 30th anniversary of a popular anime series? You erect a 59-foot-tall statue in Tokyo — that’s...
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The stigma attached to walking down the aisle even very late into a pregnancy is evaporating in Japan, with dekichatta-kon weddings accounting for almost one third of...
made popular Jun 22 2009
This Japanese fake taxi meter is a cheeky gadget that can turn a car into a taxi. It works like an ordinary meter, just press the button and it will start counting the...
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We’ve spoken enough about motion sensing technology controlling doodads and it is time to move on and focus on a new way of doing it. You can control gadgets by using...
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The internet gives us the ability to see and the prowess to communicate and frankly speaking, it was the smelling part which was missing. NTT has developed the i-Aroma,...
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Some day your high-res TVs could be dwarfed to the size of a postage stamp, and that day isn’t very far away, for the Japanese (Kopin Corporation) have succeeded in...
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From being capable personal assistants, to medical aides and even baby sitters, robots are being developed to take care of everything we humans can. A robot that could...
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A lot of effort is going into making cars autonomous vehicles, but the results so far haven’t been very appealing. They’re slow, unpredictable and unworthy of any...
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Japan’s Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS) has decided not to allow the sale of rape games in the country. The decision came after protest from American...
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We often use the phrase, “the future is here” – quite liberally in its actuality each time though. We cannot guess what the future has in store, but...
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Japan’s sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world’s most endangered fish.
A...
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The iPhone isn’t the most affordable thingamajig in many parts of the world and, to posses it, you sure need a sound income or else you need to be a student from the...
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Your teeth need to be taken care of properly, and the better the “assistance,” the healthier they remain. Omron Japan has developed a toothbrush, the...
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With energy on the grind and the earth suffering, bulbs that glow using very little energy could be a big boost. AIST Japan has succeeded in developing such a lighting...
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The geek has indeed inherited the earth. A growing number of pursuits are now aimed squarely at the geek in all of us. Gone are the days when poring over comicbooks,...
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Editorial writers around the world have called the recent Russia-Georgia war a watershed in how Russia views the world and the world views Russia. Moscow’s...
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Finance ministers of G8 have strictly warned not to give easy and cheap loans to the African countries, as they need to struggle a lot for repaying. After a two-day...
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A Catholic growing up in a patriarchal society that still, to this day, smells the heavy wafts of religious colonialism, would have been made to believe that “the...
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The annual meetings of world leaders, the so-called G8 summits, are often criticized for raising high expectations, but delivering few practical results. Adding to...
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As many of you know, I write about events in Zimbabwe every day on my respective pages, and some days I am astonished at the basic cruelty that happens in that country,...
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So it’s back to square one again! When the G8 nations were just looking like taking the climate issue seriously, the developing nations decided to play the...
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The G8 leaders agreed Tuesday in Japan to support a 50% reduction in worldwide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, developing nations including China and India...
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The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global...
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The recent transformation in global political order has changed many things. One of them is that the world is no more moved by a few countries like G-7/8. The rise of...
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BERLIN (Reuters) - None of the G8 countries have come close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change with the United States, Canada and Russia lagging...
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Nigeria’s nuclear programme is causing concern in G-8 countries. Although Nigeria’s nuclear programme is purely for power generation, the G8 nations are...
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Group of Eight foreign ministers are condemning Zimbabwe’s one-candidate presidential runoff, saying authorities there have made a free and fair election...
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Foreign ministers from wealthy nations urged Afghanistan’s neighbors Thursday to play “a constructive role” in stabilizing the war-wracked nation and...
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Japan’s finance minister says the United States and Japan are promising to work closely together to tackle soaring rise of oil and food prices and other global...
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Global warming and the related climate change are already upon us and threaten to aggravate the food and water shortages. The world’s leading scientists warn that...
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Energy ministers are meeting in Japan a day after a record one-day jump in the crude oil price, to $139 a barrel.
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I have of late been noticing some talks about the entire global warming issue being over hyped. They are basically citing some scientists who have argued that the...
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The world’s top industrialized countries should develop environmentally friendly workplaces and help workers move to nonpolluting industries, their labor...
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