Japanese cabinet ministers are putting pressure on the Bank of Japan urging it to respond to deflation. "We've had a very contractionary fiscal policy combined with a contractionary monetary policy and that's really beginning to show now," Lisa Fox from Japaninvest said Tuesday.
City Telecom is a broadband provider in Hong Kong after launching in 1992 as an international calling-card company. It now adds more than 40,000 new customers every 6 months. NiQ Lai, CFO of City Telecom, told CNBC their goal is to "become the largest IP service provider in Hong Kong by 2016."
Genomics, personalized medicine and the implications of ageing were all hot topics at this year's TEDMED conference in San Diego. Healthy Horizons investigates the latest from the medical and health-care technology conference.
Healthy Horizons went to the 5th annual TEDMED Conference in San Diego. The conference focuses on technology, entertainment, design and medicine and aims to promote innovation in the health-care sector.
The Slow Food Movement is based on the idea that people should eat healthy, pure food that is locally grown, seasonal and free from pesticides. Healthy Horizons investigates the alternative to the fast-food culture.
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