TOKYO — Corporate bankruptcies in Japan rose in November for the nineteenth consecutive month, in response to a current survey by a credit score analysis firm.
A complete of 773 Japanese firms started authorized liquidation proceedings in November, marking the second consecutive month of year-on-year development of no less than 30 %, Japan’s Teikoku Databank stated in its newest on-line report.
The complete variety of bankruptcies from January to November got here to 7,691, it stated. (Japan-Bankruptcy)
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KUALA LUMPUR — Floods displaced greater than 6,500 individuals in 4 states in Malaysia following heavy rains on Sunday.
The east coast states of Kelantan and Terengganu are the worst hit, with greater than 6,370 individuals being held in 39 flood reduction facilities, in response to the social welfare division.
Meanwhile, the west coast states of Perak and Selangor recorded 85 and 50 flood victims, respectively. (Malaysia-Floods)
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NEW DELHI — At least 9 individuals died and several other others had been injured in a photo voltaic manufacturing unit blast in India’s southwestern state of Maharashtra on Sunday, confirmed a neighborhood cop to Xinhua over cellphone.
“This blast happened at the time of packing in the cast booster plant in the Solar Explosive Company. More details awaited,” media experiences quoted Superintendent of Police (Nagpur Rural) Harsh Poddar as saying.
According to a report by India Today, the corporate the place the blast occurred handled the provides of explosives and different protection tools for the nation’s protection division. (India-Blast-Deaths)
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MANILA — Two individuals died and 5 others had been injured after hearth engulfed a truck and a bus parked alongside one another at a transport terminal within the Philippine capital area on Sunday, the Bureau of Fire Protection stated.
The bureau stated the fireplace broke out previous 9 a.m. native time at a terminal in Marikina City and rapidly unfold a couple of minutes later. Firefighters extinguished the blaze lower than an hour later. (Philippines-Fire-Deaths)
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TOKYO — Japanese scientists have succeeded in creating the world’s first psychological pictures of objects and landscapes from human mind exercise through the use of synthetic intelligence (AI) know-how, native media reported.
The workforce of scientists from the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and different organizations was in a position to produce tough pictures of a leopard, with a recognizable mouth, ears and noticed sample, in addition to objects like an airplane with purple lights on its wings, Kyodo News reported Saturday.
The know-how, dubbed “brain decoding,” allows the visualization of perceptual contents based mostly on mind exercise, and may very well be utilized to the medical and welfare fields, the report stated. (Japan-AI-Mental Images)
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NEW DELHI — A case of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 has been detected in India’s southern state of Kerala, the Indian authorities stated.
India’s well being ministry stated on Saturday that the case was detected throughout an ongoing routine surveillance exercise by Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG).
“The case was detected in a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) positive sample from Karakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on Dec. 8, 2023. The patient had mild symptoms of Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and has since recovered from COVID-19,” the well being ministry stated. (India-COVID-19-Variant)