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Airport Wi-Fi

2016年11月28日

  Rotten Wi-Fi, a subsidiary of TelcoQ, reveals the Top 20 airports worldwide with best Wi-Fi connection in 2016. Wi-Fi speed and quality have been evaluated in two hundred twenty-six airports worldwide. Airports from USA and Thailand led the list, with at least six airports listed in the Top 20. Leading the list is Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, USA with an average download speed of 42.17 Mbps, and a customer satisfaction rating of 8/10. Succeeding the list is Lennart Meri Tallinn, Estonia with 38.30 Mbps followed by Don Mueang International Airport, Thailand with 37.10 Mbps. In terms of customer satisfaction, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport, USA and Changi International Airport,…
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Overworking Issue

2016年11月25日

Japan is doubling its efforts on tackling karoshi or death from work in the wake of a work-related suicide that sparked public outrage. Matsuri Takahashi, 24, committed suicide after working 105 hours of overtime a month. The advertising giant, Dentsu Inc., which she was then working for, was being thoroughly investigated by labor authorities to find any other employment violation. The company, in response, banned its employees from staying in the office later than 10pm and cut the maximum monthly overtime by five hours to alleviate their working condition. However, the reaction to Dentsu’s countermeasures was not as expected. A good number of their employees raised their concerns about not…
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Daytime students in night schools

2016年11月18日

  The government forged ahead with a proposal for the sake of junior high school students. These students were the ones who were rebuffed, or were incapable of going to daytime institutions. Public night institutions typically cater classes to those 15 years old or older who have not completed compulsory education. Educational abutment centers are operated by municipalities, while free schools are managed by private sectors. There are 97,000 junior high school students countrywide who refused to go to institutions. The new government protocol renders 31 accessible public night junior high school institutions in 25 cities across eight prefectures in Japan. Currently, all these institutions had about 1,800 enrollees, and…
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US Inmates Uses Instant Ramen as Currency

2016年11月18日

  Tobacco was the preferred currency that inmates use in prisons before. Nowadays, the chosen currency of inmates is ramen. Jailbirds were no longer happy with the food’s quality and quantity inside the prison that they have begun depending on ramen noodles as a form of cash in the subterranean economy. Ramen turned into an invaluable product used to trade for other goods inside the prison as it is economical, palatable and rich in calories. 60 inmates were interviewed as a part of the study to learn how the inmates responded to the declining services in prison. The food received by the inmates is either inedible or too little to…
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Programming, a new fun way of learning

2016年11月18日

  The number of classes that teach programming to children is amplifying. This is in accordance to plans on having programming as an elementary school subject by academic year 2020. These kinds of classes are expected to induce creative and logical thinking among students at an early age. Last September, around 60 elementary school students assembled in a room to study programming. A second-grade student made a computer game about a parrot that rescues the monkey on a cloud by sprucing up on-screen commands such as changing the X coordinate by 10. CA Tech Kids, Inc. runs classes for elementary school students in eight locations since its foundation in 2013….
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Researchers Announced the Countries with Tallest Man and Woman

2016年11月18日

  Dutch men and Latvian ladies are the planet’s tallest individuals , as indicated by the biggest ever investigation of stature around the globe. Americans, once among the world’s tallest individuals, have dropped from having men and ladies at third and fourth in the worldwide tallness rankings, a 100 years prior to setting 37th and 42nd separately in 2014. The exploration, initiated by researchers at Imperial College London and distributed in the diary eLife, likewise discovered a few countries have quit staying in the course for the last 30 to 40 years. The United States was one of the main well-off nations to date, trailed by others including Britain, Finland,…
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Halloween party in Shibuya

2016年11月18日

  The traffic confinement will be a massive help in retaining the Halloween party. Thus, opening up some routes could boost the people who sneak into felony. The Metropolitan Police Department will provide two routes in the vicinity for pedestrians. However, the routes will only be available from Friday until Monday. The two routes are liable to conveyance confinement including the Shibuya scramble crossing. The Shibuya scramble crossing will not be available to conveyance due to its high volume of traffic. However, by seizing vehicular traffic, pedestrians will enjoy the event more. In addition to that, another big Halloween dilemma is the tons of trash left in parades, yet everyone’s…
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Education ministry experts want to know what is “serious” school abuse

2016年11月18日

  A council of scholars are calling the attention of the Education Ministry to specify “serious” bullying and create guidelines for investigation. The standard law decreed the schools and boards of education to establish teams to investigate on “serious” school bullying cases, which are detrimental to students’ development. Despite this decree, the scope of “serious” cases under the law is nebulous so response of authorities are inefficient. The ministry must enumerate comprehensive examples of grave penalties for bullying so that “serious” cases will be defined. The scholars also required the ministry to create concrete guidelines on how to scrutinize cases of bullying, which includes: selection of third-party committee members, investigation…
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China’s October Exports, Imports Drop

2016年11月15日

  China’s October exports declined 7.3 percent, while imports dwindled 1.4 percent compared with preceding year’s figures–both dropped more than what’s expected. According to the General Administration of Customs, China currently has a trade surplus of $49.06 billion for October as a result. Compared against September’s trade surplus of $41.99 billion, their forecast is to have inflated to $51.70 billion. Analysts said that the changes in statistics lead to the recurring slack global demand.   Vocabulary: dwindle – to gradually become smaller preceding – existing, happening trade surplus – a situation in which a country sells more to other countries than it buys from other countries forecast – to say…
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Paris reveals plans to win back tourists

2016年11月15日

The French government publicized their new scheme in revitalizing the agitating tourism industry of Paris. This scheme of French government includes the employment of English-speaking tourism volunteers. The administration is also pushing for the term ‘state of emergency’ to be changed to ‘state of high security’. Terror attacks and flooding in France led to a 13% fall in visitor numbers between January and August this year, compared to the same period in 2015. It caused the loss of €1billion in monthly tourism revenue. The authorities came with their six-point plan to attract foreign sightseer back to the French capital. The plan will mainly focus on security, hospitality, and quality of…
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