AFP Veteran politician Yuriko Koike was elected on Sunday as Tokyo’s first woman governor, according to media exit polls, and immediately vowed to get a grip on the megacity’s troubled 2020 Olympic preparations. Public broadcaster NHK, Jiji Press and other major media forecast the 64-year-old Koike as the winner just after polls closed at 8 pm (1100 GMT). Koike is ...

  Bloomberg Chinese billionaire Jack Ma wants to pry the lid off China’s opaque charities. Ant Financial, the affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. he controls, is using the technology behind bitcoin to record transactions and improve the accountability of the country’s philanthropic organizations. The company began a tamper-proof ledger based on blockchain technology to record donations made by its ...

  Madrid / AFP Luis Lag is one of thousands of Spaniards who went abroad during the crisis. This “very good decision” allowed him to find a better job when he eventually came back. But many others who left their country in search of work are still unable to return home due to Spain’s sky-high unemployment. Before leaving in 2011, Lag ...