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NTT DoCoMo Inc., despite being Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, has been struggling against tough smartphone competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which is leading in that area. But one edge that the cellphone behemoth — it has more than 60 million subscribers ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
The 27-year-old defender says he was ready for a change of scenery after helping Sanfrecce Hiroshima win theJ. League title last season.
The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Global fashion brands such as Benetton, Carrefour and Marks & Spencer on Tuesday committed to abide by an agreement to improve working conditions in Bangladeshi factories after a plant in Savar collapsed killing more than 1,100 people. The announcements came after clothing giants Inditex ...
Some of the world’s largest retailers have agreed to a first-of-its-kind pact to improve safety at some of Bangladesh’s garment factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month. The move comes just days shy of a ...
Bangladesh’s government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people following the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry’s dismal pay and hazardous working conditions. A new minimum wage board will ...
Bangladeshi doctors treating a “miracle” survivor pulled from the ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing “great” and had been reunited with her family. Reshma Begum, 18, a seamstress dug out from the rubble of the garment factory ...
The death toll from last month’s collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose past 1,000 Friday as piles of bodies were found in the ruins of a stairwell where victims had sought shelter. Brig. Gen. Siddiqul Alam Sikder, the army officer overseeing ...
Bangladeshi police broke up a protest by tens of thousands of religious hardliners and shut down Islamist television stations Monday as 37 people died in some of the fiercest street violence for decades. Hundreds more were injured in running battles as riot police broke ...
A top investigator probing the recent garment factory disaster in Bangladesh on Friday blamed vibrations from four illegal generators for the collapse of the building, in which more than 500 workers were killed. The preliminary findings of the government probe, as described by lead ...
Protesters demanded the execution of factory bosses Wednesday over the death of nearly 400 people in a building collapse as May Day became the focus of workers’ anger over Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster. Despite calls by the prime minister for “cool heads,” tensions over ...
The day after a building collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 230 people, disagreement emerged Friday over whether the owner obtained appropriate construction permits, adding to concerns over worker safety in the country’s thriving garment industry. Rana Plaza’s owner didn’t get permission from Dhaka’s ...
Garment factories in Bangladesh ignored orders to evacuate after deep cracks in their building became visible before its deadly collapse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday met Bangladesh’s prime minister for talks that included the inking of a $1 billion arms contract, the Asian nation’s biggest since gaining independence in 1971. Bangladesh has recently been expanding its defense capabilities, building a new air base ...