News Headlines - 17 September 2020
▽The world set a 2020 deadline to save nature but not a single target was met, UN report says
In 2010, leaders from 196 countries gathered in Japan and agreed on a list of goals designed to save the Earth.
The Aichi Biodiversity Targets laid out a 10-year plan to conserve the world's biodiversity, promote sustainability, and protect ecosystems. The targets were ambitious, but crucial. One, for instance, aimed to prevent the extinction of threatened species and improve their status by 2020.
We've reached the deadline -- and the world has collectively failed to fully achieve a single goal, according to the United Nations' Global Biodiversity Outlook report, published on Tuesday.
An experimental green housing project in a Chinese megacity promised prospective residents life in a "vertical forest", with manicured gardens on every balcony.All 826 apartments were sold by April this year, according to the project's estate agent, but instead of a modern eco-paradise, the towers look like the set of a desolate, post-apocalyptic film... Without any tenants to care for them, the eight towers have been overrun by their own plants - and invaded by mosquitoes.
▽Japan Curry House Looks To Break Into Indian Curry Market - The Taiwan Times
An iconic Japanese chain restaurant specialising in Japanese-style curry, is looking to break into the Indian curry market.
Coco Ichibanya is a household name in Japan and well known around the world thanks to it’s 1,400 branches, of which 180 can be found in 13 countries across Asia, Europe and the US.
The chain currently has almost 50 outlets in China and 24 in Taiwan, but just one on the sub-continent.
▽Nintendo is discontinuing the 3DS - CNN
Nintendo said Thursday it has stopped making the 3DS family of systems, and it has updated the 3DS and 2DS Japanese product pages, which say that the items are out of production.
Originally launched in 2011, the Nintendo 3DS was a GameBoy and Nintendo DS successor... It featured a 3D display that didn't require special glasses... Nintendo has sold more than 75 million Nintendo 3DS devices since the product first came out in 2011. That wasn't as splashy and successful as the original DS from 2004, which sold 154 million units, but the 3DS is still one of Nintendo's best-selling consoles.
In the current console generation, the Nintendo Switch is performing extremely well, outselling the 3DS in number of games sold, and at 61 million units sold is likely to beat out past consoles in hardware as well.
▽Indicted Ex-Justice Min. Kawai Dismisses His Lawyers - JIJI PRESS
Indicted former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai dismissed all of his six defense lawyers after the eighth court hearing of his trial on Tuesday.
The move is seen as certain to delay court examinations on the case, in which Kawai, 57, and his wife, Anri, 46, a House of Councillors lawmaker, allegedly distributed cash to local politicians in Anri's constituency to help her campaign for the Upper House election in July last year.
