18120 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/11/18/national/disaster-pay-phones/The government has decided to ease regulations on the installation of public pay phones as the widespread use of mobile phones has sharply reduced the need for the once-ubiquitous item. The number of pay phones in Japan peaked at 935,000 in fiscal 1984, just before the establishment of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.2021-11-18T09:44+0100japantimes-b9ca29c1f12f7770c965d478d000dcd220211118094400https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/edbi-backed-mooring-systems-company-mooreast-to-raise-s85m-in-catalistSINGAPORE ( THE BUSINESS TIMES ) - Mooreast Holdings, a mooring systems company, on Wednesday (Nov 17) launched its initial public offering (IPO) for a listing on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The company will offer 0.8 million offer shares and 38.05 million placement shares at 22 cents apiece.2021-11-18T07:47+0100straitstimesSG-7a46a6e3366857f9f12c13c0f387743420211118074700https://www.compsmag.com/news/operator-minimal-impact-of-fukushima-water-release/TEPCO plans to send the water through an undersea tunnel and discharge it about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the coastal power plant after treating and diluting it with large amounts of seawater. According to the simulation, radiation levels of seawater right above the release point temporarily....2021-11-18T04:39+0100compsmag-7c29eaff2d6d8eaa2d858a6ed519d00b20211118043900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6496879/mag4quake-Nov-17-2021-Japan-E-OFF-FUKUSHIMA-PREF.htmlJapan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) reported a magnitude 4.5 quake in Japan near Iwaki, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima, only 11 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early afternoon on Wednesday, November 17th, 2021, at 3:24 pm local time at a shallow depth of 20.5 km.2021-11-17T07:57+0100volcanodiscovery-a56ed46b7dff8a2b244fad7bf9e153c920211117075700