Rosewood Hotels & Resorts will open Rosewood Xian in 2026. It will feature a total of 180 guest rooms and suites, a casual bistro, a Chinese restaurant, a specialty restaurant, and a bar. Located in the eastern part of Xi’an’s Qujiang district, the hotel will be a luxury base near major art, shopping, and sightseeing…
Takumo Hydroelectric Power Plant Expansion Project
Electricity demand in Vietnam has increased rapidly with economic development, and the average annual growth rate of national electricity consumption from 1996 to 2002 was 14.6%. Electricity demand in the southern region of Vietnam was expected to increase at a rate of 13.8% annually by 2010. In particular, electricity demand in the northeastern southern region…
Atiak-Nimule road project
Uganda’s Amuru District is located approximately 350 km northwest of the capital Kampala and borders South Sudan. The region has lagged behind in the development of production, livelihood, and social infrastructure due to years of civil war. South Sudan is rich in mineral resources such as crude oil and fertile arable land, but its landlocked…
Bangkok Waterworks Project phase 8
The Bangkok Metropolitan Region, consisting of the Bangkok Special Municipality and five surrounding provinces, is the political and economic center of Thailand, and the Metropolitan Waterworks Corporation operated the water supply system in the Bangkok Special Municipality as well as two surrounding provinces. The maximum water demand in the region was 5.13 million cubic meters/day…
Cajamarca Water Project
In the rural cities of Cajamarca, located in the mountainous region of northern Peru, water and sewage facilities were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, but since then, there has been no significant investment in new construction or renewal of facilities. As a result, by the late 2000s, the facilities were aging and did not…
Haripur Power Plant Project
In Bangladesh, demand for electricity was increasing in line with robust economic growth, but power generation capacity was not keeping pace with this growth in demand. Therefore, the government of Bangladesh had set a national goal of “providing a stable supply of affordable electricity to all citizens by 2020,” and was working on capital investment….
50 Years of JICA Cooperation with Bangladesh and Future Prospects
Conference Title: 50 Years of JICA Bangladesh Cooperation and Future Prospects Date: Friday, June 10, 2022 Organized by: Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo Place: Tokyo Bongo Bondo Auditorium (Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo) Main Participants Congratulatory Greeting Fatima Yasmin (video, ERD Undersecretary) Mari Akiyama (Country Development Cooperation Division 2, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign…
Sumitomo Fudosan Villa Fontaine offers special accommodation plans including “Motto Tokyo”
inumo Shiba Koen by Villa Fontaine (1-6-6 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo) and Villa Fontaine Grand Tokyo Ariake (2-1-5 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo), operated by Sumitomo Fudosan Villa Fontaine, are offering special offers to guests nationwide as well as plans for the “More Tokyo” tourism promotion program in Tokyo. The hotel is also offering special accommodation plans…
[Asami Araki’s Life in Paris] Fertilizer-Free Vegetable Gardens Are Gaining Popularity in France
More and more people around me are growing crops or want to grow crops without depending on pesticides and chemical fertilizers. I was one of the curious ones, so I first went to Permae, a salon focusing on permaculture and sustainable agriculture. This salon was held in March, the second time this year. Goods, books,…
3,000 yen discount: Japan Camper Rental Center offers “Tokyo Citizen Discount”
Japan Camper Rental Center will offer a “Camper Tokyo Discount” from June 17 to July 7. Tokyo residents who rent a campervan from Tokyo C.R.C. will receive a 3,000 yen discount off the rental fee per person. If the total rental fee is 50,000 yen or less, the maximum discount is 9,000 yen; if the…