Japan faces slow progress in creating inclusive workplaces, despite push to hire more workers with disabilities

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LITTLE PROGRESS IN BUILDING INCLUSIVE Offices

Although organizations like Omron you get government funding to hire and train disabled workers, observers noted that Japan’s progress has been slow in making diverse workplaces. &nbsp,
 
The private business, on regular, has not reached the target set by the government. &nbsp,
 
Concerns include the inseparability of the accommodations available to people with disabilities, the inability to accommodate them, and the unwillingness of other staff to welcome them. &nbsp,
 
According to Ms. Cai Cai, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( UNESCAP ), the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Section’s CEO, is necessary for business leaders to change their mindset. &nbsp,
 
According to Ms Cai, who spoke on CNA’s East Asia Tonight on May 7th, these individuals could be just as effective and contribute to society if given the right support. &nbsp,
 
” We have observed that many of them have outstanding abilities in fields like skill and information systems, and they are excellent researchers. So it’s necessary to plug into these skills by businesses”, she said.

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CNA Correspondent Podcast: The healthcare system in the Philippines is failing ordinary people, but what can be done?

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Vital medications are priced in the Philippines at least three times more than those purchased abroad. Caregivers are overworked and underpaid. As they wait to be seen, the sick have to camp on medical streets.

Teresa Tang and Buena Bernal speak about the state of the Philippine healthcare system and why it is n’t working.

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Commentary: Mount Fuji overtourism furore tests limits of Japan’s hospitality

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COURTESY CAN GET TO THE TOP OF A LIMITS.

According to go company JTB, the state has been promoting the country to foreign customers for decades with phenomenal success. This year’s visitors are expected to surpass the 2019 pre-COVID history. Everywhere you look, the negative effects are increasing for regular residents, from exceedingly expensive hotels to suitcase-clogged streets that are nearly unwalkable.

One irreverent restaurant owner expressed growing frustration with dealing with tourists looking for English selections and services in their native tongue next month. The time and hassle involved in dealing with them did n’t make sense for travellers who do n’t spend much anyway, the owner explained.

The problems split opinion, with some sympathising, while others defended the country’s touted omotenashi hospitality- a word so associated with the Chinese encouraged that it just made it into the Oxford English Dictionary ( “good hospitality, characterised by kindness, close attention to detail, and the excitement of a bride’s needs”, in case you were wondering ).

But just as in Fujikawaguchiko, that courtesy may be reaching its limits. Authorities and small business owners are resolute to preserve their way of life.

Tourists have been banned from the backstreets of Gion, where overtourism is most prevalent, while the city has hurriedly added special buses for travelers amid complaints that elderly people ca n’t use public transportation.

In Hiroshima, one restaurant serving the local soul food of okonomiyaki ( coincidentally, another word just added to the dictionary ) has declared visitors verboten on Friday evenings, limiting entrance to prefectural residents and regulars.

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Macron hosts Xi in French mountains to talk Ukraine, trade

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“FLOODING EUROPEAN MARKET” In the deals, Macron and von der Leyen both made business a top priority, underscoring that, in order to avoid a trade war, Europe must defend its” strategic passions” in its financial relations with China. Von der Leyen cited “imbalances that remain important” as well as” aContinue Reading

China’s COMAC to expand Shanghai C919 plane factory as orders grow

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China: China’s COMAC is expanding manufacturing facilities for its domestic C919 jets in Shanghai, according to one of the job contractors, as the condition- owned planemaker ramps up manufacturing to accomplish hundreds of new orders. A state-owned company of aircraft planning and construction services, China Aviation Planning and Design InstituteContinue Reading

Malaysia unveils financial incentives for anti-graft whistleblowers amid country’s RM277b loss to corruption

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If the land had been spared from “greedy” people in power, Mr. Anwar, who also attended the launch, claimed all the money that had been lost to fraud could have been used to improve people’s lives.

Due to the political rivalries of Mr. Anwar’s in the late 1990s, the MACC is currently engaged in a fraud crackdown on well-known businesspeople and former politicians.

Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and businesspeople near to ex-finance minister Daim Zainuddin, who has been accused of failing to consider his property, are the subjects of an investigation.

The top has refuted allegations of political retribution, and he praised the MACC for continuing to work with impunity when it comes to identifying high-profile individuals who are suspected of abuse of power.

” The plague of problem cannot be taken lightly”, Mr Anwar. ” To overcome this, you need a very strong, dedicated, dedicated and courageous power. Powerful laws and regulations are required.

FINANCIAL CARROT

Mr Azam said the fresh national anti- problem technique emphasises integrity, transparency and accountability in areas like politics, open administration, government procurement, law enforcement and judiciary.

It has five major categories- education, public transparency, the people’s words, enforcement, and incentives- comprising 60 sub- categories that are targeted to be carried out from 2024 to 2028.

More than RM1 million were awarded as opportunities to civil workers who reported fraud crimes or provided related information, according to a local media channel’s TV3 report from March.

If the situation is investigated and leads to trial and conviction, legal workers who report an offence may receive an incentive equivalent to the amount they were offered as money, according to established rules.

How the authorities intends to use this program to reach the general public was not immediately known.

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Will the impact of rural-urban divide show as India enters its third phase of elections?

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Mismatch INDIA: RURAL AND URBAN

Over the last century under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state, India has achieved an ordinary annual growth rate of 7 per share, propelling it to become the world’s second largest business.

One of Mr. Modi’s main accomplishments is the continued high economic progress that he is presenting as he seeks re-election in the current polls.

In a report released earlier this year, the government assume tank Niti Aayog claimed that nearly 250 million people had been exempt since Mr. Modi took office.

However, India’s hunger levels remains a projected 11 per cent, with some academics noting that the money gap has widened in recent years. &nbsp,

The review even showed that the number of citizens in “multidimensional hardship”- which refers to hunger across earnings, education, and simple infrastructure- between 2019 and 2021 was 19 per cent in the remote population. Compared to metropolitan regions, this was about four times higher.

According to Mr. Sujan Hajra, main economist at financial services company Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers,” the combined effects of demonetisation, GST ( Goods and Services Tax ), and then the pandemic and slow movement have had a significant impact on remote income.”

” That’s why rural and urban India feel more and more divided,” he said.

During the recession training in 2016, India’s two highest value currencies were banned immediately, while the GST was launched in 2017.

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