雖然保育團體大力疾呼，魚翅還是在許多華人料理中會出現的食材，日本環保人士今天就在東京一家無印良品店門口，抗議他們在店裡販賣魚翅湯速食包。
許多人攜家帶眷的站在路旁，高舉標語牌，上面寫著停止販賣魚翅湯，以及讓我們孩子有個健康的海洋等。
抗議民眾表示，就是因為他們很喜歡無印良品，所以更希望他們能夠支持環保，停止販賣魚翅湯。
而這個產品先前在台灣只販售一個月就下架，日本民眾希望藉由這次的抗議活動，也能達到相同的效果。
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former World Bank president Robert Zoellick said on Monday Japan's economic drive needed accompanying structural reforms, voicing fear that recent growth could be just a "sugar high". Japan posted 0.9 per cent quarter-to-quarter growth in the three months through March, during which time Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took charge with a platform that has featured ramping up money supply and intense fiscal stimulus.
"On the one hand, I think it's understandable that Prime Minister Abe would come in and try to have some shock effect. But no one should be under the illusion that this isn't a big if," said Mr Zoellick, whose term ended last year.
LONDON (AFP) - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Tuesday that annual net profits tumbled 90 per cent after it took a vast £7.7-billion (S$14.69 billion) impairment charge relating to its businesses in debt-laden euro zone nations Italy and Spain.
Earnings after taxation nosedived to £673 million in the group's financial year to the end of March, compared with £7.0 billion in 2011-2012, Vodafone said in a results statement.
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's economy shrank 2.2 per cent in the three months to March from the previous quarter - the first contraction in more than a year - as manufacturing output fell, official data showed on Monday.
The decline followed a blistering year-long recovery from devastating floods in late 2011 that hit major factories north of the capital Bangkok and caused a double-digit drop in gross domestic product (GDP).
CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday approved a US$79 million credit (S$98 million) to import toilet paper and other personal hygiene products to relieve shortages in the petroleum-rich state.
The South American OPEC member has the world's largest proven oil reserves but has wrestled with periodic shortages of several consumer goods since price controls were imposed in 2003 under the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez.
PERTH (REUTERS) - Workers at Australia's Newcastle port, the world's largest thermal coal export facility, plan to stop work for eight hours on Friday to protest proposed changes to their work contract that could hit working conditions and jobs.
The strike, in which about 220 unionised workers will participate, comes on the heels of a four-hour stoppage last week and is part of a two-week campaign during which workers plan to stage similar such halts, ranging from 8 to 24 hours.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Apple chief executive Tim Cook denied on Tuesday using "gimmicks" to dodge corporate taxes as the tech giant came under attack from US lawmakers for using "sham" subsidiaries and "convoluted" strategies to shift profits offshore.
Mr Cook told a congressional panel he was "proud of our contributions to the American economy" as he sought to deflect criticism stemming from a Senate investigation on shifting of profits offshore.
LONDON (AP) - The Bank of England's policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy.
The minutes to the Monetary Policy Committee's meeting in May shows all nine policymakers agreed to keep the base interest rate at 0.5 per cent but they disagreed on pumping more money into the economy. Since 2009, the bank has injected 375 billion pounds (S$468 billion) into Britain's economy in a programme known as quantitative easing.
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's central bank says the world's third-biggest economy is "picking up" as demand recovers in other countries and remains resilient at home, though the trade deficit widened in April, for the tenth straight month.
The Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting on Wednesday with no change to its strategy of doubling the monetary base to reach a 2 per cent inflation target and jolt the economy out of two decades of stagnation. That outcome was expected.
MOORE (Oklahoma) (Reuters) - Emergency workers searched for survivors in the rubble of homes, schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma town hit by a powerful tornado, but officials on Tuesday sharply lowered the number of deaths caused by the storm.
The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office said 24 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage of Monday's storm, down from the 51 they had reported earlier. The earlier number likely reflected some double-counted deaths, said Ms Amy Elliott, chief administrative officer for the medical examiner.
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卡梅倫呼籲他們正視納稅人交換情報，與透過在稅率低的地方設立虛假身分逃稅的“嚴重問題”。
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過程全被路人拍了下來，並放上YouTube分享，3天點閱率已破百萬。
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（新德里21日綜合電）正在印度訪問的中國總理李克強，周一在印度總理曼莫漢．辛格為他舉行的歡迎儀式上，首次開口“秀”英文。
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