London, Dec 8 : Japanese video games company Nintendo is signing a deal with publisher HarperCollins to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles.
The deal has been made on the 100 Classic Book Collection, which ranges from Shakespeare and Dickens to Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, priced at 20 pounds and will initially be available only in Britain.
The technology allows readers to turn the pages by brushing a finger across the screen, doing away with books.
Tokyo - Japan markets opened stronger on Monday, with stocks driven up by hope for the US economy to recover as president-elect Barack Obama Saturday pledged a large-scale spending plan.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average was up 203.2 points, or 2.57 per cent, to 8,120.71 by mid-trading, carrying over Friday's positive sentiment at Wall Street.
The broader Topix index of all first-section issues rose 11.34 points, or 1.44 per cent to 797.36.
Tokyo - Japan's current-account surplus fell in October by 56.5 per cent from the same month of 2007 to 960.5 billion yen (10.4 billion dollars), the Finance Ministry said Monday in Tokyo.
It was the eighth consecutive month with a year-on-year drop.
Japan's goods and services trade surplus ran a deficit of 131.9 billion yen, against a year-before surplus of 853.5 billion yen, the ministry said in a preliminary report.
Cairo - The Japanese company Toyota has expressed interest in investing in wind farm projects in Egypt, said Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younes on Sunday.
"Japan is one of the supporters of Egypt's ambitious plan to develop renewable energy. The Japanese government presented two soft loans to help in financing the Koraimat solar station, to generate 140 megawatts," Younes was quoted by the official MENA news agency as saying.
Younes' statement came after he met with representatives of major Japanese companies experienced in the sector of electricity all over the world.
Taipei - Taiwan sent its ruling party chief Sunday to assure Japan that Taipei values their relations while improving it ties with China.
During the week-long visit, Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of the pro-China Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), will meet with officials from all political parties of Japan and call on Japanese politicians who are friendly to Taiwan, the KMT said in a statement.
According to the statement, President Ma Ying-jeou asked Wu to tell Japan that Taiwan values their relationship and will not neglect Japan while developing ties with China.
Stuttgart - German car giants BMW and Mercedes Friday pledged their continued loyality to Formula One motor-racing but said savings had become unavoidable.
Both German teams told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Friday the decision by Japanese carmaker Honda to quit Formula One would have no influence on their participation in the sport.
"Our Formula One engagement is financially solid," Mercedes sports director Norbert Haug said.
McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton's victory in the 2008 F1 championships had provided an enormous marketing boost for the company, Haug said.
London, Dec 8 : Japanese video games company Nintendo is signing a deal with publisher HarperCollins to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles.
Tokyo - Japan markets opened stronger on Monday, with stocks driven up by hope for the US economy to recover as president-elect Barack Obama Saturday pledged a large-scale spending plan.
Tokyo - Japan's current-account surplus fell in October by 56.5 per cent from the same month of 2007 to 960.5 billion yen (10.4 billion dollars), the Finance Ministry said Monday in Tokyo.
