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Reading Global (2021.03.12)
[Las importaciones y exportaciones británicas a la UE han caído drásticamente en el primer mes después de la implementación de la nueva relación comercial después del Brexit]
Data released on the 12th showed that in the first month of the establishment of a new trade relationship between the UK and the European Union, Britain’s imports and exports to the European Union fell significantly.
The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that in January, excluding non-monetary gold and other precious metals, exports to the EU fell 40.7% to 5.6 billion pounds and imports fell 28.8 % to 6.6 billion pounds. .
Brexit has the biggest impact on EU food and live food exports (including shellfish and fish), with a sharp drop of 63.6% in January.
Furthermore, the UK economy saw its biggest contraction since the first wave of the new corona pandemic in January, and the UK’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 2.9% compared to December last year.
However, ONS previously warned that due to the impact of the new corona pandemic on trade volume, it is difficult to distinguish whether the January data is the impact of new customs agreements or the impact of Brexit.
However, a British government spokesman said: “Due to hard work by carriers and traders, the total volume of freight between the UK and the EU has returned to normal levels since the beginning of February.”
[Las subsidiarias de Tencent y otros invertirán en Rakuten Japón]
Rakuten, a large e-commerce company, announced on the 12th that it will raise 242.3 billion yen (approximately RMB 14.44 billion) in the form of a third-party capital increase allocation.
In addition to the subsidiaries of Japan Post and China Tencent Holdings, Wal-Mart from the United States will become the investors. The funds raised will be invested primarily in Rakuten Mobile, which operates the mobile phone business, for the upgrade of 5G base stations.
Japan Post will invest around 150 billion yen, which represents 8.32% of the shares. The Tencent subsidiary will invest 3.65% (approximately 65 billion yen) and Wal-Mart will invest 0.92% (approximately 16.6 billion yen). The specific ratio has not been disclosed.
The investment discussion of Japan’s Rakuten and Tencent is reported to have started in 2021 and will consider cooperation in the field of digital entertainment and e-commerce in the future.
[Kyocera cerrará su fábrica de LCD de Jiangsu]
Kyocera will close its LCD factory in Zhangjiagang City, Jiangsu Province after November 2021. The factory produces outdated LCD monitors for vehicles, but decided to stop production due to difficulties in waiting for market expansion, etc. About 740 factory employees will be laid off and on-board monitor production will be concentrated at the Dongguan factory in Guangdong province.
The Zhangjiagang LCD factory was opened in 1997 by the Japanese LCD company OPTREX. In 2012, Kyocera acquired OPTREX and turned it into its own factory. The factory produces STN LCD monitors and plans to continue operating until November, after which the local legal entity will be liquidated. The annual production value is around 3 billion yen, and it has not yet been determined how the land and buildings will be used after the factory closes.
In addition to monitors for automobiles, Kyocera also produces LCD monitors that are used in industrial machinery, such as factories. Production continues at Dongguan, the Shiga Yasu plant in Japan and Thailand, but competition with Chinese and Korean companies is fierce. Kyocera President Hideo Tanimoto voiced the idea of downscaling production for the display business.
[Federación Internacional de Registros: 65 trabajadores de los medios de comunicación asesinados en 2020]
According to data from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ, International Federation of Journalists), in 2020, a total of 65 news and media workers were killed around the world.
When the federation announced its annual death report on the 12th, the death toll was 17 more than in 2019, roughly the same as in the 1990s. According to the IFJ, these victims occurred in 16 different countries, including targeted attacks, bomb attacks and shootings.
Since the IFJ began counting in 1990, a total of 2,680 journalists have been killed.
IFJ Secretary General Anthony Bellellanger said: “The ruthless rule of the Mexican criminal giants, the violence of extremists in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia, and the intolerance of the hardliners in India and the Philippines have contributed to the continued outpouring of blood in the media “.
In the last five years, Mexico has topped the list of countries with the most journalists killed for the fourth time, with 14 deaths; Afghanistan has 10 deaths; Pakistan has 9 deaths; India has 8 deaths; The Philippines and Syria have 4 deaths each. ; Three people died in Nigeria and Yemen each. There were also deaths in Iraq, Somalia, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Honduras, Paraguay, Russia, and Sweden.
In addition to the deaths, the IFJ added that as of March 2021, at least 229 journalists from around the world have been in jail for work reasons. The federation claimed that Turkey is “the largest journalists’ prison in the world,” with at least 67 media workers jailed, 20 journalists in Egypt detained, 16 journalists in Eritrea, and 14 journalists detained in Saudi Arabia.
(This article was compiled from Reuters, The Guardian, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Associated Press)
(Compiled by Zhou Yuqing, Economic Observation Network internal reporter)Return to Sohu to see more
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