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Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Exports to Middle East Soar
In its analysis of trade statistics for FY 2007, the Kyushu Economic Research Center reports that exports from the region to the 14 countries and territories of the Middle East ros...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Saga Prefecture Soliciting Ads for Employee PCs
Starting in August, Saga Prefecture will solicit private-sector companies to place paid advertising on the screens of the PCs prefectural employees use at work. About 4,500 compute...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Salary Gap as High as 21 Times for Nagasaki Long-Term Care Facilities
A Nagasaki Prefecture government survey found that the salary differential for people working at private-sector long-term care or social welfare facilities was as high as 21 times ...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Three Kyushu Cities Sign Exchange Agreement
Mayor Hiroyuki Mori of Kagoshima City announced that a special exchange and cooperation agreement would be signed next month with Fukuoka City and Kumamoto City. The agreement is e...
Jul 24, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Lagging in Conversion of Paper Stock Certificates
Only six months remains until all stock certificates will eliminated in favor of electronic records. Yet as many as 660,000 shareholders in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture still reta...
Jul 18, 2008 Local News
Kyushu Electric Involved in Chinese ESCo Project
Fukuoka City-based Kyushu Electric Power announced it had joined with a Chinese consulting company to take part in an energy-saving project through an energy services company (ESCo...
Jul 18, 2008 Local News
KAL to Add Fukuoka – Busan Flight
Korean Air Lines of South Korea announced it will add another daily round-trip flight between Fukuoka City and Busan, South Korea, starting September 1. It already operates one dai...
Jul 18, 2008 Local News
Kitakyushu to Launch Organization Supporting Venture Capital Startups
The city of Kitakyushu announced it would launch in August Kitakyushu Venture Innovation Club, an organization for supporting new companies backed by venture capital. The city alre...
Jul 18, 2008 Local News
Industry, Academia, and Governments to Form Group to Promote Ruby in Fukuoka
Software development companies, universities, and local governments will combine to form a group, called F-Ruby, in August to promote the use of the Ruby programming language in Fu...
Jul 18, 2008 Local News
New Fund Launched to Keep Companies Afloat
Fukuoka Capital Partners, Kyushu’s largest investment fund management company, and Tokyo-based Japan Private Equity have jointly launched a three-billion-yen fund for support...