Uber Eats to begin self-driving robot deliveries in Japan
Uber announced Tuesday that its Uber Eats business is partnering with Mitsubishi Electric and delivery robotics company Cartken to begin transporting food using self-driving robots in Japan.
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Why Malaysia – once Silicon Valley of the East – is set to strike back
This is the value Malaysia’s new semiconductor task force wants to capture. The good news is that Malaysia already has a mature chip cluster. Major chip makers including NXP, Infineon and Texas Instruments have been operating in the country since the 1970s.
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More Japanese want nuclear plants to reopen ahead of 2011 Fukushima disaster anniversary
Local governments have been reluctant to approve the country’s 54 reactors, spread across 17 nuclear power plants, to resume operations. Currently, just 12 reactors at six plants are active after passing stringent new safety tests.
Hong Kong’s banker salaries top Singapore colleagues by up to 46 per cent
Finance and technology professionals are generally better paid in Hong Kong than in Singapore, with investment-banking analysts earning 46 per cent more than in the Southeast Asian city-state, according to a report from Bloomberg Intelligence.
Singapore Airshow: China’s home-grown C919 passenger jet lands 40 orders on international debut
China for the first time flew the home-grown C919 narrowbody passenger jet in an international aviation event on Tuesday, securing more orders for it and the ARJ21 regional jet on the opening day of the Singapore Airshow.
CNBC Daily Open: Is the battle against inflation getting tougher?
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South Korean trainee doctors walk off job over medical student increase
SEOUL -- South Korea was bracing for possible disruptions to health care on Tuesday as hundreds of trainee doctors walked off the job to protest a government plan to increase the number of spots at medical schools.