News Headlines - 10 January 2019

▽Japan labour data 'incorrectly collected since 2004' - The Straits Times

Japan may have underpaid billions of yen in unemployment benefits after it emerged that the government has been incorrectly collecting labour market data for as long as 15 years.
Officials are supposed to gather data from all firms with 500 or more employees but in Tokyo, only about one-third of 1,400 such firms were surveyed, according to a civil servant at the labour ministry... According to public broadcaster NHK, the problems could date back as far as 2004.
A ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that the problem could have resulted in underpayment of unemployment benefits and industrial injury insurance benefits.

▽Venezuela’s annual inflation surges to 1.7 million percent | Business Recorder

Venezuela’s consumer prices rose 1.7 million percent in the year ending in December, the opposition-controlled National Assembly said on Wednesday, up from 1.3 million percent in November as the country’s economy continued its downward spiral.
Prices rose 142 percent in December, equivalent to around 3 percent per day, according to the report released by legislator Angel Alvarado. The National Assembly has become the only reliable source for consumer price data since the government stopped publishing economic indicators years ago as falling oil prices sent activity tumbling.

▽MacKenzie Bezos Could Become World's Richest Woman With Divorce - Bloomberg

MacKenzie Bezos’s divorce from Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos could make her the world’s richest woman.
As of now, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of cosmetics manufacturer L’Oreal SA, is the richest woman in the world, with a net worth of $45.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people.
Neither the Bezoses nor Amazon have commented on the likely division of the couple’s assets, including a 16 percent stake in the company. But without an agreement stipulating otherwise, their wealth would almost certainly be divided equally, according to Karin Lundell, a partner at law firm Rower LLC in New York.

▽Pedophile Gary Oliva confesses to killing JonBenét Ramsey by accident | Daily Mail Online

A longtime suspect in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey has finally admitted he killed the then six-year old beauty pageant queen, DailyMailTV can exclusively reveal.
Gary Oliva, 54, a convicted pedophile who is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a Colorado prison for child pornography, has admitted in letters obtained by DailyMailTV he killed her by accident.

▽Paris nudist restaurant undone by scanty custom | AFP.com

The first nudist restaurant in the French capital is being forced to close because it cannot put enough bums on seats.
"O'Naturel" will draw the curtain on nude fine dining in Paris in February after a little over a year despite rave reviews from diners who shed their clothes to slurp oysters and feast on snails, foie gras and asparagus.
But to avoid financial embarrassment, twins Mike and Stephane Saada said they were having to close... The restaurant in the east of Paris opened amid a blaze of publicity in November 2017.