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16-Jan-18 The US had the most clinical trials in the world in 2017, with 24% of all trials, and Korea ranked sixth with a 3.5% market share. Seoul topped the list of the most clinical trials per city. [image: Business Korea]
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15-Jan-18 ASEAN nations are widely expected to adopt QR systems as a leading method of payment. However, they still a long way from emulating China and Japan’s adoption of the codes, as they lack standardisation and acceptance by banks. [image: ASEAN Today]
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12-Jan-18 Line, the company behind a messaging application of the same name, is stepping up promotion of its Line Pay mobile platform to vendors across Japan, seeking to make it available at 1 million locations by 2020. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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05-Jan-18 Store owners in Japan may soon be able to accept payments using JCB's new palm scanning payment app. Advances in 'empty-hand payments', requiring neither phone nor wallet, could push Japan forward in the move away from cash. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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23-Dec-17 Japanese births are expected to total 941,000 in 2017, the lowest tally in statistics going back to 1899, likely resulting in a natural decline in population of more than 400,000 as deaths mark a postwar peak. [image: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare / Nikkei Asian Review]
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