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Sri Lanka Tamils defy ban on rebel memorial
Tamil party on Saturday defied a military ban and staged a commemoration of their war dead as the government celebrated the fourth anniversary of defeating Tamil Tiger rebels. ...
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No alternative for Filipino workers in Taiwan says recruitment expert
MANILA, Philippines - The alternative labor markets being eyed by the Philippine government for Filipino who may be affected by the brewing tension between Taiwan and the Philippines are not feasible, a recruitment industry expert said Saturday. According to Emmanuel Geslani, there are no alternative markets for OFWs in Taiwan in case the Philippines eventually loses this labor market, which, ...
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Yahoo Japan suspects vast ID theft
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
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Despite lacking FTA Japan to get U.S. LNG
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
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Sharif calls for partys meet on May 20
Sharif, set to become Pakistan's next Prime Minister, has convened a meeting of parliamentarians and legislators of his party here on May 20 to brainstorm a plan of action to deal with Pakistan's pressing problems including terrorism. Besides at the centre, ...
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Woman describes Berlusconis bunga bunga partiesSilvio Berlusconis private disco featured not only aspiring show girls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses but also dressed as President Barack Obama and a prominent Mi
Karima el-Mahroug's is escorted outside the Milan's Law court by a Carabinieri police officer after giving her testimony at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused with procuring her and other woman for prostitution, in Milan, ...
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China will not accept DPRK as nuclear-armed state Yonhap
China's chief nuclear envoy has told his South Korean counterpart that Beijing will not accept the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a "nuclear-armed state," a high-ranking Seoul official said Friday, adding that Seoul, Washington and Beijing reached a consensus on the stance, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reports. The Chinese envoy Wu Dawei made the ...
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China police arrest man after plane bomb threats
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said Saturday.Eleven flights were affected in total, though the suspect is not alleged to be behind all the threats. The planes were travelling from Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the Beijing News reported.One flight from Guangzhou on Friday ...
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Environmentalists fear dams on Nu could befoul one of China’s great waterways
Thousands of households have been relocated, and China's weary band of environmental activists, who have fought for years to slow the process of damming on the Yangtze and China's other great rivers, ask: why China can't have just one single river that is not ...
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Australia’s Warner in Twitter rant
Australian batsman David Warner is under investigation following comments on his Twitter account directed against two of the country's leading cricket writers. Photo by: Cameron ...
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Osaka Mayor Japan must admit invasion and apologize
Toru Hashimoto Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who co-heads the opposition Japan Restoration Party, told reporters Monday that Japan must admit invasion of Asian countries as a result of its WWII defeat and introspection and apology is a must given the fact that it had brought so much pain to its neighbors. However, speaking of the issue of comfort women, also known as sex slaves, the mayor made a ...
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Abe poses inside jet plane numbered 731 at ASDF base
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe poses inside a T-4 training jet plane of the Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse flight team at the ASDF base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture on May 12, 2013 as part of his inspection tour of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster areas. The number 731 reminds people of Unit 731, which was a covert biological and chemical warfare ...
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Naval shift to Asia on track despite budget cuts U.S.
Plans to expand the American naval presence in the Pacific with new ships and hi-tech weaponry will go ahead despite steep budget cuts, the U.S. Navy chief said before a trip to the region. Admiral Jonathan Greenert told AFP in an interview he will seek to "reassure" partners during a nine-day trip to Japan, Singapore and South Korea that mounting pressure on military spending will ...
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China should reconsider who owns Okinawa Peoples Daily
China's top newspaper on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan's sovereignty over the island of Okinawa. The article in the People's Daily argued that the country may have rights to the Ryukyu chain, which includes Okinawa. The authors of the article, two scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said the Ryukyus were a "vassal state" of China ...
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Last S. Koreans to return from Kaesong Friday
Seven South Korean personnel staying at an inter-Korean complex in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will be able to return home later Friday after completing negotiations for the settlement of various accounts, a government official said Friday. "An understanding was reached during talks with the North Korean(DPRK) side with the South Koreans to cross over the ...
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Japan marks 66th constitution day amid protest against law revising
Japan marked on Friday the 66th anniversary of the enforcement of its pacifist constitution amid large scale of protests against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's attempt to revise the country's supreme law. About 3,500 people gathered in Hibiya Park in downtown Tokyo and took to the streets to demonstrate their oppositions against the government attempt to amend the war-renouncing Article ...
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Obama Focuses on Middle-Class Jobs
U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big ...
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Gunmen Kill Iraqi Police Officer and Family
Officials say the gunmen gunned down an administrator for the al-Rasheed district Saturday, and also killed the police captain's wife and their two children. The attackers also killed at least one security officer nearby. On Friday, a series of bomb attacks targeted Sunnis in Iraq, including in Baquba, just north of Baghdad, killing 70 people and increasing fears of renewed sectarian ...
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Hard-line Afghan MPs block law protecting women
KABUL, Afghanistan -; An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic ...
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5.9 Quake Jolts Northeastern Japan
Tokyo, May 18. (BNA) -- A 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolted today northeastern Japan, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced, without issuing any Tsunami warnings. The agency said that epicentre of the quake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, more than 200 km northeast of Tokyo, where buildings also shook. W H Q BNA 0937 GMT ...
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No tsunami after Japan quake
Earthquake measuring 5.7 strikes northwest Pakistan An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 has jolted northeastern Japan, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Tokyo Electric Power Co's two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further ...
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5.9 quake jolts Japan no tsunami warning
Tokyo Electric Power Co's two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further north also detected no irregularities, ...
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Outraged by kidnapping Egyptian police block Gaza crossing
Palestinian travellers , witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions. Gunmen demanding the release of jailed Islamist militants had seized seven policemen and soldiers on a road between the Sinai towns of el-Arish and Rafah. Three of those abducted had worked at ...
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Pakistan anti-terrorism court extends Musharrafs remand by 14 days
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday extended by 14 days former President Pervez Musharraf's judicial remand over the detention of judges during the 2007 emergency. ...
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9 most popular USA brands sold in China
By 2030, roughly two-thirds of the world's middle class will be in the Asia Pacific region, largely in China, according to a report by Ernst & Young. Currently at around 150 million people, the Chinese ...
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Osaka sees first InterContinental hotel built
Osaka is a major travel destination within Japan and the wider Asian region for business travelers and leisure tourists alike. The city is an economic powerhouse and part of the backbone of the Japanese economy. It makes sense for InterContinental to finally open a hotel here then.
Osaka is the second command center of the Japanese economy after Tokyo, with a daytime and nighttime population that reflects the massive draw of the city as an economic powerhouse. Read more
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