News & Press Releases http://www.ide.go.jp/English/New/index.html Copyright (C) JETRO. All rights reserved. en On March 11, Japan was hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake. IDE-JETRO would like to express our heartfelt sympathy for the citizens who have suffered from the earthquake. We fervently hope and pray that the citizens in the stricken region will be able to return to their normal lives at the earliest. http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Research/Region/Mid_e/201112.html This is the first part of the following article: “An Insight into the Political Changes in the Middle East And the Arab World,” Ajiken World Trend, Jan. 2012 (Original text in Japanese). http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Events/Sympo/111019.html http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Research/Region/Asia/201111_holmes.html Philippine media, both mainstream and alternative, is once more in a frenzy. A quick glance of the front page of the major dailies, the homepage of the websites of broadcast station, the tweeter feeds and status updates of friends who observe Philippine politics, would readily reveal that the watch is on, the case of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Research/Region/Asia/201108_sato.html New Delhi is located on the western side of the Yamuna River, which flows almost north to south. Over the past ten years, New Delhi and its environs have been rapidly developing and changing. Many modern shopping malls stand in Gurgaon, which is located south of Delhi. Noida, which is located on the eastern side of the Yamuna River, is also experiencing rapid development as a commuter town of the capital, as can be seen by many industrial complexes being built one after another. The Noida area i http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Research/Region/Africa/20110802.html Despite its decline, Japan, the world’s third largest economy and a country of advanced technological prowess, should not be mentioned in the same breath as Africa’s economies, which stagnate at the bottom of the pyramid in the world—or so one may think. However, of all the economies in the world, the Japanese economy and African economies have one thing in common: an arrest in growth for 20 years. http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Research/Region/Asia/20110726.html On March 30, 2011, a new government was born in Myanmar. On this, the 18th and final day of the regular session of Parliament convened on January 31 in accordance with the 2010 general election, Prime Minister Thein Sein took office as president, with First Secretary of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Tin Aung Myint Oo(*1) and Sai Mauk Kham (of the Shan, an ethnic minority) as vice presidents. All three had already been elected to their positions as president or vice president in http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Press/20110606_news.html Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO, in collaboration with the World Trade Organisation, will launch a report on the joint research project on “trade in value-added”, a new measurement of international trade. The launch will take place at the WTO headquarter in Geneva between 9:15 and 11:45 in the evening, local time, of 6th June, 2011, chaired by Director-General Mr. Pascal Lamy and President of IDE Professor Takashi Shiraishi. http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Research/Region/Africa/20110518.html The political situation in Côte d’Ivoire has remained deadlocked since the presidential runoff elections held at the end of November 2010. The standoff between the two main candidates – the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and his opponent, former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara – continued with both rivals declaring victory after the elections. The situation entered a new phase, however, when Mr. Gbagbo was taken into custody on April 11, 2011.