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Kyodo news summary -11-(Japan Economic Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NEW YORK, May 10 -- (Kyodo) _ ---------- KDDI admonished for exaggerating network coverage for iPhone TOKYO - KDDI Corp., the operator of the "au" mobile phone service, was admonished Friday for exaggerating the coverage area of its LTE high-speed network for the iPhone 5 in advertisements, the communications ministry said. KDDI said the misrepresentation was not deliberate and corrected it on their website last year. But it continued to receive inquiries from users and issued an apology about the "erroneous information" on the site in March, the carrier said. ---------- AirAsia to start Taipei service, Starflyer to fly to Guam TOKYO - AirAsia Japan Co. said Friday it will start a daily service linking Tokyo and Taipei on July 1, while Starflyer Inc. said it will begin a charter flight from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, to Guam on Aug. 1. AirAsia's airfares on this route start from 8,580 yen one way and no fuel surcharge, commonly charged by other airlines, will be levied, it said. ---------- U.S. sanctions Taiwan company with suspected N. Korean links WASHINGTON - The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday it designated Taiwan's Trans Multi Mechanics Co. and its CEO and general manager Chang Wen-fu as subject to sanction measures such as the freezing of assets in the United States. The department said Chang as the CEO of the company "has been actively involved" in providing machinery for both military and civilian use to a North Korean procurement agent who was recently arrested in Estonia. ---------- LDP campaign platform seeks nuclear restart, economic revival TOKYO - Japan will restart nuclear power reactors confirmed safe, draft policy pledges compiled by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party showed Friday ahead of an upper house election this summer, a move that would fuel public concerns following the Fukushima crisis in 2011. The LDP's draft platform obtained by Kyodo News also seeks to stimulate the country's economy, revise its pacifist Constitution and address the deteriorated Japanese ties with China and South Korea, in line with the intentions of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who heads the party. ---------- Sharp to sell TV plant in Malaysia to Taiwan's Wistron OSAKA - Sharp Corp. has reached a broad agreement to sell its television assembly plant in Malaysia to Wistron Corp., a Taiwanese electronics contract manufacturer, sources familiar with the matter said Friday, just days ahead of the scheduled announcement of the company's mid-term business plan next week. The sale of overseas TV assembly plants is one of the main pillars of the restructuring of the struggling Japanese electronics maker that can count on proceeds from asset sales. Sharp will also be able to achieve the job cut goal if it sells all of its overseas TV plants. (c) 2013 Kyodo News International, Inc. |