TOKYO, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government on Wednesday upgraded its assessment on its economy for the first time in 21 months, with upturn in corporate exports and consumer spending.
The cabinet office on Wednesday released the monthly economic report for December, saying "The Japanese economy is on a moderate recovery".
The report said "delayed improvement in part can be seen" instead of "weakness can be seen recently", which had been used for nine straight months through November.
However, the report maintained its earlier assessment on capital spending, saying the improvement in business investment appears to be "pausing". With the world's third largest economy to combat persistent deflation, weak consumer and corporate spending has been a difficult problem for the Abe administration.
On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan, the country's central bank, upgraded its economic assessment saying a moderate recovery trend has continued while exports have picked up.
However, the bank noted that in spite of an upbeat overall assessment based on a flurry of better-than-expected economic data recently, its reflationary efforts still remained pressured.
The report also reminded of uncertainties of overseas economy as it is currently difficult to tell details of economic policies of the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
NICOSIA Cheap Air Max 1 Online , July 10 (Xinhua) -- Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday laid the blame on Turkey for the collapse of the UN-mediated reunification talks.
He said the Greek Cypriot side is ready to resume negotiations anytime, provided that Turkey agrees to relinquish vested rights to interfere militarily in Cyprus, accepts a time table to withdraw its occupation troops and also agrees on an effective mechanism to implement an eventual solution.
The negotiations on a Cyprus solution in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana ended abruptly in the early morning of July 7, when UN Secretary General declared that the conference, involving Cyprus Cheap Air Max 2017 Online , its Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders and guarantor powers Britain, Greece and Turkey, could not proceed anymore because of wide gaps between the parties.
He also declared over the entire negotiating process which had been going on, on and off, for over 40 years under the United Nations auspices.
However Cheap Air Max 2018 Online , Turkey also blamed the Greek Cypriot side and Greece for the collapse of the talks.
Turkey maintains troops on Cyprus since 1974, when Turkey occupied its northern part in a military operation prompted by a Greek-inspired coup.
The United Nations said that negotiations between Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci that lasted more than two years had reached just a step away from a solution.
Turkey said after the collapse of the negotiations that it is not interested any more in seeking a solution within the parameters of the United Nations. Instead, President Tayyip Erdogan said he will seek a solution outside those parameters.
However, Anastasiades said he would never accept to negotiate outside the parameters of the United Nations.
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NANJING, China Cheap Nike Air Max 1 , Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- These days, when Simone Farina of Italy thinks what might have been, there is a massive sense of relief about the decision he made in 2011.
The former professional footballer blew the whistle on a systematic match-fixing ring within the lower divisions of the Italian game, after he was offered 200,000 Euros by a former teammate to influence the result of a game involving his team Gubbio.
Farina knows he made the right decision Cheap Nike Air Max 2017 , despite the difficulties that came with it.
"It was a very hard time for me, but also for my family. My club didn't let me play anymore, and didn't give me any moral support. I suffered a lot because of it. I played for them for five years, and won two titles with them," Farina said as an Athlete Role Model at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.
He was among a group of role models asked this week in Nanjing if they had any regrets from their career.
For Farina Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 , that he can definitively answer "no", offers a special satisfaction, as he is fully aware that the potential for regret was 10 fold.
"I would have been banned by the Italian federation. I wouldn't have been allowed to play football. I wouldn't be speaking with media, and I wouldn't be giving a message to young athletes," he said.
Farina was honored for his courage at the 2011 Ballon d'Or Gala.
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Match fixing is a problem in a number of sports around the world, most recently with the game of cricket in damage control mode over a spot fixing scandal that has meant two life bans have been handed out since June.
Farina is also working with international police organization Interpol, and said unregulated betting is at the center of most match fixing.
Despite his significant effect on Italy's favorite sport, he is not a household name in his homeland.
In fact, some of the young Italian athletes at Nanj.