• Giappone

    Bonito flake firm opens factory in France

    Gourmets in Europe may soon taste a difference in dishes at local Japanese restaurants as the production of authentic katsuobushi — or dried bonito flakes, a crucial ingredient in Japanese cuisine — will shortly begin in France. Makurazaki France Katsuobushi Co., a company headquartered in Makurazaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, has built ...

  • Nigeria

    MTN unveils Osuofia, nine others as brand ambassadors

    MTN Nigeria on Thursday announced Nkem Owoh, popularly known as Osuofia, and nine other artistes as its 2016/2017 brand ambassadors. The firm’s General Manager of Consumer Marketing, Mr Richard Iweanoge, listed the other nine as Saka, (Hafiz Oyetoro); Nedu (Steve Onu); Adamu Zango Praiz (Praise Adejo); Iyanya (Iyanya Mbuk); Chidinma ...

  • Nigeria

    I don’t have a twitter account –Adeosun

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Thursday said she had no Twitter account, stating that the one being used to post comments about the economy within the last 24 hours does not belong to her. She noted this in a statement issued by her Media Adviser, ...

  • Nigeria

    Four Policemen arrested for ‘illegal’ duty

    The police in Lagos have arrested four operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Sqaud (SARS) Ikeja for allegedly taking part in illegal duty. The operatives comprising an Inspector and three Sergeants were said to have participated in the unlawful demolition of a building at Alade, Ikeja. It was learnt that the ...

  • Brasile USA

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica, nuovi contratti per elicotteri civili in Sud America

    (Teleborsa) - Nuovi contratti per Leonardo-Finmeccanica. Il gruppo guidato da Mauro Moretti ha venduto cinque elicotteri per trasporto corporate a tre diversi clienti in Sud America. I...

  • Cina Singapore Hong Kong Myanmar

    Honest partner

    The wind’s set fair THE maroon hot-air balloons which carry tourists over Bagan—an ancient city teeming with crumbling red-brick temples—are famous in Myanmar. The fleet belongs to one of the country’s best-known tycoons. Since the pariah nation began to open up in 2011, Serge Pun has gradually transformed an empire built ...

  • USA

    The €13 billion bite

    MARGRETHE VESTAGER, the EU’s competition commissioner (pictured), likes to knit elephants in her spare time, because, she once said, “they bear no grudge, but they remember well”. It is hard to imagine executives at one of the big beasts of the tech world forgetting August 30th 2016 in a hurry: ...

  • Etiopia

    Ethiopia Will Never Be a Failed State

    [Ethiopian Herald] Over the last 25 years, Ethiopia has embarked on a democratic political system that has been crowned with a development pace hitherto unknown in the history of the country. A two digit annual economic growth that resulted from economic liberalization in the areas of industry, agriculture, FDI, foreign ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria: Investments in Ogun Free Trade Zone Secure, Say New Chinese Managers

    [This Day] Abuja -The new management of the Ogun Free Trade Zone, Igbesa, has dispelled insinuations that the multi-million dollars investment at the zone is at risk following the take-over by a new team of Chinese managers. They stated: "Not only are the current investors not leaving the zone, the ...

  • Cina

    Africa: China's Message to Africa Is Loud, Clear

    [The Herald] The following quotation from China's Director General of the Department of African Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Mr Lin Songtian is very incisive in describing relations between his country and Africa.