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Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
If someone in Japan does a suicide-related search on Yahoo! Japan, the search engine will display a list of counseling services at the top of search results. Keywords and phrases - shinitai (死にたい) , jisastsu (自殺)- and …
Tagged: prevention, suicide, all about japan, yahoo japan
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
A jealous mistress in Hong Kong posed as a salesperson and tricked her lover’s wife into giving away her identity card number. The ID card number was then used to access the wife’s cell phone account. The 'hobby' …
Tagged: hacking, fine, all about china, mistress
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
A can of beer costs Y207 ($1.88) for 350-milliliters. The price is going up in Japan by 3-5% next year, March 1st. Japan's biggest brewery, Asahi Breweries made the announcement yesterday. Reason - higher oil …
Tagged: beer, price, doing business in japan, asahi, kirin
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
China's economy is not overheated says a UBS senior analyst on global emerging markets. 1. worries about domestic over-investment are unwarranted 2. current high consumer price index (CPI) is due to temporary …
Tagged: china, economy, doing business in china, overheat, cpi
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
Air China is the official carrier for the Beijing Olympics 2008. The carrier is sprucing up its staff by adding 300 attendants, aged 19-25, to serve on popular flights next year. Out of 5,000 applicants, some 300 …
Tagged: air china, flight attendant, beijing 2008 summer olympic games
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
Sony's PS3 outsold Nintendo's Wii in November for the first time. Sony sold 183,217 PS3 consoles to Nintendo's 159,193 Wii consoles. Sony has been selling its console at $409-$454 depending on the hard disk memory …
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
Gasoline prices hit $5.60/gallon....in Japan, in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Kerosene is about $3.80/gallon. I don't know if this is true and I never tested it, but I have been told that you can out kerosene into a …
Tagged: japan, gasoline, doing business in japan
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
Some 194 students in a remote town in China are suffering from malnutrition. At first, locals thought they had another SARS-like epidemic. It wasn't food poisoning or any other disease that caused pain in the …
Tagged: students, all about china, malnutrition
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
Which High End International Brands Can be Found in Tokyo's Ginza? Italian jeweler Bulgari is there. British luxury menswear designer Dunhill is there. Giorgio Armani is there. But, why? Nationwide same-store …
Tagged: brands, high end, dunhill, ginza, giorgio armani, bulgari, doing business in japan
Know More Media - International Business - Dec 2, 2007
The market share for wristwatches in Japan was put out by Nikkei. The domestic output, including movements supplied to other products was down. Citizen Watch's strategy is to keep unit prices high instead of making …
Tagged: wristwatch, market share, japanese products