Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
Japan Government to Help Small Businesses With $9.4 Billion of Finance
variety.comBy Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent The Japanese government will use a public and private sector fund to financially support small and medium-sized businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese sources reported Thursday.
The plan is to funnel as much as JPY1 trillion ($9.4 billion) to qualifying companies via the fund starting by the middle of May, with each getting approximately JPY100 million ($940,000).
The targets of the funding initiative are companies that cannot presently survive on bank financing alone, but can be expected to recover once the threat of the virus recedes.
One main criterion is that they employ at least 50 people and have sales of 1 billion yen ($9.4 million) or more annually. Also, companies that were
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