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Philippine designer fashions gowns out of recycled trash
By ADRIAN PORTUGAL CAINTA, Philippines, March 15 (Reuters) - Lenora Buenviaje has been making dresses out of waste materials for the past seven years and says wearing clothes made from such items as r...
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Menswear through the ages: V&A holds its first male fashion exhibition
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - From 18th century billowing shirts to a blue Gucci suit worn by singer Harry Styles, London's V&A museum is holding its first exhibition dedicated to men's fashion....
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Japan posts bigger-than-expected trade gap as energy imports jump
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan reported a wider-than-expected trade deficit in February as an energy-driven surge in import costs added to vulnerabilities for the world's third-largest eco...
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Japan to revoke Russia’s most-favoured nation trade status -sources
By Kentaro Sugiyama and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will revoke Russia's most-favoured nation trade status as part of further sanctions against Moscow following the invasion of Ukraine,...
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S.Korea’s February jobless rate falls record low
By Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's annual unemployment rate fell to the lowest on record in February, with jobs growth staying at a near 22-year-high, though the increase was mainly due to a ...
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For one Japanese salaryman, nearly a decade of $4 annual pay rises
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese accountant Masamitsu has not travelled or gone to the cinema in years and rarely eats out. Instead, his annual salary of about $34,000 goes to support his fam...
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Japan March manufacturers’ mood up, Ukraine crisis clouds outlook – Reuters Tankan
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturers' business confidence improved for the first time in three months in March, as automakers became less pessimistic, though firms feared a fresh...
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Japan Inc expected to announce modest wage hikes after annual talks
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top firms are set to offer pay rises of around 2% or more as annual labour talks wrap up on Wednesday, a boost from last year's razor-thin increase that ...
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Buttressing Greenland – a bailout in China’s distressed property sector
By Engen Tham and Xie Yu SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Greenland Holdings Corp Ltd, a major Shanghai-based Chinese state-backed property developer responsible for marquee projects at home and abroad,...
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Brazil unveils plan to cut taxes on forex transactions by 2029
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government published a decree on Tuesday to phase out taxes on financial operations using foreign exchange, known as IOF taxes, as part of an effort to join the Organizat...
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