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Season 2 Premieres April 2026. Check out the Crunchyroll article for additional information. Synopsis for the first season from AniList:

Amane lives alone in an apartment, and the most beautiful girl in school, Mahiru, lives just next door. They've almost never spoken—until the day he sees her in distress on a rainy day and lends her his umbrella. To return the favor, she offers him help around the house, and a relationship slowly begins to blossom as the distance between them closes...

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China is bolstering its geopolitical influence in the Pacific by “branding” Asian Development Bank projects – funded in significant part by Australian taxpayer dollars – as Chinese projects, the Australian government says.

On the island of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea to Australia’s north, the state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation has begun work to strengthen the runway at Kieta-Aropa, on the outskirts of the largest city.

When the government of Bougainville announced the upgrade of the airport, there was no mention of the Asian Development Bank – who is funding the project – only the state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation.

And when an inauguration ceremony was held last month at the airport’s runway, the president of Bougainville and the prime minister of Papua New Guinea broke the ground with a shovel wearing hard hats adorned with the name and logo of the CRCC. An ADB sign was visible in the background.

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Australia’s minister for the Pacific, Pat Conroy, said the “branding” of multilateral development projects had been a consistent frustration for the government.

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“The largest donors to the ADB are countries like Japan and Australia, which is part of my frustration … because people driving past would assume it’s funded by China because you see Chinese state-owned enterprise branding everywhere, but it’s funded by the taxpayers of countries like Japan and Australia.”

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The ADB is a major development backer across the Pacific. Australia is the fund’s second-highest contributor after Japan.

Asked if he felt China was seeking to bolster its influence through multilateral organisations like the ADB, Conroy told the Guardian: “I think that’s a reasonable conclusion.

“I’m sure they seek to make money out of these projects as well, but if they’re able to brand them with a [state-owned enterprise]’s name, then there’s a secondary benefit, obviously.”

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Emma Veve, director general of the ADB’s Pacific Department, said the bank was expanding across the region, with strong support from countries like Australia.

“ADB is proud of its work and committed to ensuring that project information is visible to the public during the execution of construction works and that there is a precise acknowledgment of project funding sources.”

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Bem tenho praticamente 20 anos e não queria fazer uma decisão financeira que me fosse arrepender para o resto da vida.

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Segundo os documentos financeiros do festival Tribeca, a Impresa teve de pagar 750 mil dólares pelos direitos do evento e foi esse valor, em euros, que teve de ir buscar. Acabaria por conseguir 500 mil da câmara de Lisboa e 250 mil do Turismo de Portugal, tutelado pelo ministério da Economia. Ou seja, na prática, foi o Estado português a pagar o fee do festival da Impresa/SIC.

Os documentos solicitados pela SÁBADO a estas entidades – um processo que durou mais de nove meses devido à resistência destas de fornecerem esta informação – dão um vislumbre de como o processo decorreu para que a Impresa/SIC tivesse obtido tanto dinheiro para um festival de apenas dois dias e que esteve longe do impacto que anunciava.

O festival teve um prejuízo de 360 mil euros, segundo o Relatório de Execução Financeira, – as receitas foram de €1.464.374 e as despesas de €1.825.168. Se não tivesse tido o apoio público de 750 mil, o evento teria dado um prejuízo ainda maior, superior a 1 milhão de euros.

Quanto à referida Associação Turismo de Lisboa (ATL), que contribuiu com 250 mil euros para o Tribeca, é uma associação que promove e explora o turismo na Grande Lisboa. Junta empresas privadas e a câmara de Lisboa, que preside sempre à associação – no caso, por Carlos Moedas. É fortemente financiada com dinheiros públicos (com subvenções e receitas da exploração de equipamentos públicos).

A ATL enviou-nos documentos e emails sem truncar os nomes. É através desses emails que é possível ver o gabinete de Carlos Moedas a instruir a Impresa/SIC sobre como pedir o dinheiro. Em três semanas, e com a intermediação do gabinete de Carlos Moedas, o assunto ficou resolvido. Um cenário muito diferente do que se passou, por exemplo, com o DocLisboa, evento de cinema que em 2024 arrancou a 22ª edição na mesma altura do Tribeca, mas sem receber apoio financeiro da câmara (que desde 2017 era de €100 mil anuais). A Apordoc, organizadora, disse na altura que solicitou “por diversas vezes reunião com o gabinete” de Carlos Moedas, para resolver o problema do financiamento, mas “nunca obteve qualquer resposta”.

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