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Based on 10 verified sources covering Thailand, Myanmar:

JAKARTA (AP) -- Indonesia's richest man, Michael Bambang Hartono, who helped turn the Djarum cigarette company into one of the country's largest business empires and later became a controlling shareholder of Bank Central Asia, Indonesia's biggest pri... [2]

With its 330-kilometer coastline along the Sea of Japan, Niigata Prefecture does not lack for premium seafood. Inland, the rice harvested from its fertile plains is revered nationwide. [3]

TOKYO -- Naoko Ogigami and Kumi Kobata are a rarity in Japan where female directors and producers are as uncommon as independent filmmakers. [4]

Your weekly lineup of Asia's biggest business and political events Rise of China and ties with U.S. [5]

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings will tackle the daunting challenge of turning around its nuclear operations under a new chairman hailing from an industrial conglomerate that once lifted itself out of the red. [6]

TOKYO -- Four more automakers have decided to join a project led by Toyota Motor to develop basic technology for electric vehicles. [7]

OSAKA -- Japanese drugmaker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical will invest around 10 billion yen ($91 million) to boost production of its popular cooling gel sheet called the Netsusama-sheet. [8]

Trading house Sojitz also part of new California joint venture Japanese company aims to enhance group cooperation and global reach Dry weather and growing Asian consumption push up robusta futures Growing salinization crisis bites as cotton exports t... [9]

Sources
[1] MM indianexpress.com · 2026-03-26 · 40% match

PM Modi in Gujarat on March 31, to launch projects worth Rs 19,000 cr

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-03-19 · 33% match

Michael Bambang Hartono, Indonesia's richest man, dies at 86

JAKARTA (AP) -- Indonesia's richest man, Michael Bambang Hartono, who helped turn the Djarum cigarette company into one of the country's largest business empires and later became a controlling shareholder of Bank Central Asia, Indonesia's biggest pri

[3] MM www.japantimes.co.jp · 2024-07-19 · 65% match

Tokiwa Sushi: Niigata sushi master with a hometown, locavore focus

With its 330-kilometer coastline along the Sea of Japan, Niigata Prefecture does not lack for premium seafood. Inland, the rice harvested from its fertile plains is revered nationwide.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-01-30 · 65% match

Is Japan ready to love a transgender lead character?

TOKYO -- Naoko Ogigami and Kumi Kobata are a rarity in Japan where female directors and producers are as uncommon as independent filmmakers.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-09-29 · 65% match

Japan's new PM

Your weekly lineup of Asia's biggest business and political events Rise of China and ties with U.S.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-06-24 · 65% match

New Tepco chief seeks to reorganize nuclear ops

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings will tackle the daunting challenge of turning around its nuclear operations under a new chairman hailing from an industrial conglomerate that once lifted itself out of the red.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-12-31 · 65% match

Toyota-led electric vehicle project adds four more automakers

TOKYO -- Four more automakers have decided to join a project led by Toyota Motor to develop basic technology for electric vehicles.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-03-23 · 65% match

Kobayashi Pharma ramps up output of popular cooling gel

OSAKA -- Japanese drugmaker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical will invest around 10 billion yen ($91 million) to boost production of its popular cooling gel sheet called the Netsusama-sheet.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-05-11 · 65% match

Food & Beverage

Trading house Sojitz also part of new California joint venture Japanese company aims to enhance group cooperation and global reach Dry weather and growing Asian consumption push up robusta futures Growing salinization crisis bites as cotton exports t

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-03-13 · 65% match

New laser system allows for prolonged examination of living cells

TOKYO -- A new super high-resolution microscope that uses two lasers has been developed by a research team led by professor Takayoshi Kobayashi at Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications.

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