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Thailand-Japan plan two-way tourism traffic flows.
In an effort to address a gap in travel between Thailand and the island of Kyushu in Japan, a tourism exchange was recently organized in the city of Fukuoka between the Thai Government and the private sector of ...
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Marriott Foundation funds new charitable initiative for youth in China.
Million dollar investment to expand opportunities for youth through the China Hospitality Education Initiative.The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation has committed 40.5 million RMB ($6.5 million) over five years to support ...
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US markets turn sober after Japan plunge
THE 7.3 per cent plunge in Japanese stocks during the week injected needed sobriety into US markets, but they showed a resilience that cheered investors worried about protecting the year's ...
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Taliban Attack U.N. Affiliates Compound in Kabul Testing Afghan Security Forces
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Asias Week China Still on Flu Watch
Qingdao, for a while, grew to the sky. (Photo: Wikipedia) While Asia basked another week in generally favorable economic winds-minus that little 7% stock squall in Japan in Thursday, whatever that was about-there remained an undercurrent of worry about China. ...
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Bail denied to Massachusetts teen accused of Facebook terror post
BOSTON (Reuters) - A judge denied bail on Friday to a Massachusetts teenager who was arrested on terrorism charges after posting lyrics on his Facebook page suggesting he could do worse than the Boston Marathon ...
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Pacific trade bloc negotiations end in Lima without agreement
LIMA, Peru - Negotiators working on a trade agreement among 11 Asia-Pacific nations have completed a 17th round of talks in Peru for the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership, and say Japan will join the talks when they reconvene in Malaysia in July. Member nations say they hope to finish negotiations by October. The trade bloc would encompass more than 700 million people. Current members are ...
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UK clears first free school for Sikhs
LONDON: Authorities have approved England's first free school for Sikhs in Leicester, which has a sizeable ethnic minority population. Nine gurdwara leaders had proposed the school, which will open in September next year. The school, where only vegetarian food will be served, will be open to students from other two faiths too, but half its seats will be reserved for Sikh students. The state ...
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S. Korean president fires spokesman Yonhap
Yoon Chang-Jung(Photo:Agencies) South Korean President Park Geun-Hye fired her spokesman over an unspecified "unsavoury" act midway through a summit trip to the United States this week, Yonhap news agency reported Friday. Senior presidential press secretary Lee Nam-Ki announced Yoon Chang-Jung's dismissal, saying he was "personally involved in an unsavoury incident", ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Latam stocks unchanged despite China Fed worries
* Concerns over Chinese economic growth, Fed stimulus weigh * Brazil Bovespa, Mexico IPC flat; Chile IPSA down 0.94 pct By Asher Levine SAO PAULO, May 24 (Reuters) - Latin American stocks were largely flat on Friday despite concerns over weak economic growth in China and a possible winding down of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank's asset-buying program. Latin American markets also suffered this ...
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Expert US Foreign Policy in Retreat
A former senior advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. is in "retreat." Vali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), said the Obama administration has concluded that the best way forward for the United States ...
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British Security Services Scrutinized After Soldiers Murder
A police officer guards a block of flats in Greenwich following a raid in connection with the killing of a British soldier in nearby Woolwich, southeast London, May 23, ...
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Head-to-heads of China vs Indonesia a...
KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Following are the Sudirman Cup head-to-heads record between China and Indonesia who meet in the quarterfinals of the world team badminton championships here on Thursday: 1991, Copenhagen, Indonesia beat China, 3-2, group stage 1993, Birmingham, Indonesia bt China, 3-2, semifinals 1995, Lausanne, China bt Indonesia, 3-1, final 1997, Glasgow, China bt ...
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Guangxi man makes moving hut to liv...
Liu Lingchao carries his "moving hut" on a road in Liucheng County of Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 21, 2013. Liu, a 38-year-old migrant worker from Liuzhou's Rong'an County, decided to make a "moving hut" five years ago in Guangdong Province to live in on his way to Rong'an, his hometown. The hut measures about 60 ...
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Chinese first lady makes Forbes list ...
(Clockwise from top left) Angela Merkel, Melinda Gates, Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sheryl Sandberg and Christine Lagarde Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan makes the list of Forbes 2013 "Most Powerful Women", according to a report by Daily Mail on May 22. Peng is ranked No.54. "Peng Liyuan is the stylish wife of new leader Xi Jinping. She toured with her husband during ...
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Kims envoy visits Beijing
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's special envoy Wednesday held talks with Wang Jiarui, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official in ...
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Overloaded pedicab used as school bus
By Jia Xiaoguang, Sina English A motor tricycle loaded with 31 pupils was seen driving on a county road in Zhongmou, C China's Henan Province on May 20. The driver was a middle-aged woman, who had to tilted her head to see the road ahead as her daughter was standing on the tank right in front of her. All the kids on her tricycle, who attend the same school nearby, are children of the ...
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Premier Li raises five-point proposal...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) meets with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (C) and interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 22, 2013. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang presented in Islamabad Wednesday a five-point proposal for further deepening friendship and cooperation with Pakistan. He made the suggestions during talks with Pakistani President ...
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Hong Kong light rail derailment injur...
Up to 50 people were injured when multiple cars derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor. "There was a derailment on the light rail and right now, there are 40 to 50 injuries," a police spokeswoman told AFP. the city, throwing passengers onto the ...
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Putting Slurplus Food to Good Use
With world headlines warning of increasing drought and a hunger crisis and almost 15 percent of U.S. households struggling to put food on the table, a religious group in the shadow of the nation's capital is quietly putting surplus food on empty tables. Every Monday, about 150 people line up in the parking lot of Christian Life Center in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Joan ...
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Japan must continue efforts to deactivate Fukushima nuclear plant - UN agency
IAEA's Director of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology Juan Carlos Lentijo (right), speaks with Shift Superintendent Ikuo Izawain at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Photo: IAEA/Greg ...
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In Ma Jian’s new novel a family floats through a turbulent China
, reviewed by National Post columnist and noted literary critic Philip Marchand: "If [readers] are puzzled by what the Wutong Temple is all about, I have no idea either. If the storyline is meaningless, so are the characters. Nevertheless, the novel does reflect some of the political realities the author has lived through..."What these 20th-century ...
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Campaign to merge US with Australia fails
THE campaign to force US President Barack Obama to look at merging the US and Australia to create a new super nation called Ameristralia, where inhabitants eat hotdogmeatpies and the coat of arms features a bald eagle with a koala's head, is dead. A petition on the White House's official website calling for the US and Australia merger failed on Friday to receive the 100,000 signatures ...
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IMF chief named key witness in French payoff case
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde arrives for a second day of the court hearing at a special court house, in Paris, Friday, May 24, 2013. Lagarde faced questioning at a special Paris court Friday over her role in the 400 million euro ($520 million) pay-off to a controversial businessman when she was France's finance minister. (AP Photo/Thibault ...
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China Considers Luxury Tax
Luxury products have become an important niche in the booming China consumer story. And as part of the country's tax reform plans this year, they could get hit with the first ever luxury tax, said Kong Jingyuan, a director-general at the National Development and Reform Commission. The guidelines for tax reforms were published by the Central Government on ...
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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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