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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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Warners Twitter fight Cricket Australia to launch probe
Cricket Australia says it is attempting to contact test opener David Warner over reported comments he made on Twitter in terse and often angry exchanges with two ...
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North Korea
>Are you from South or North Korea? Send us your experiences.(CNN) -- North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap ...
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North Korea
>Are you from South or North Korea? Send us your experiences.(CNN) -- North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap ...
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North Korea
>Are you from South or North Korea? Send us your experiences.(CNN) -- North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap ...
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Bangladesh plans to raise minimum wage for garment workers
A Bangladeshi woman reacts holding her son's daughter after her son's body was found after the April 24 garment factory building collapse in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 12, 2013. (Photo:Agencies) Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused ...
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DPRK must rescind give assurance not to repeat unjust Kaesong action ROK
South Korea's unification minister said Wednesday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) must rescind all actions that led to the temporary shutdown of a joint industrial park on its soil and give assurances that a similar problem would not recur. In a meeting with senior ruling Saenuri Party lawmakers at the National Assembly, Ryoo Kihl-jae said DPRK needs to clearly ...
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S. Korean president to visit U.S. leading largest economic delegation
South Korean President Park Geun-hye will head a large economic delegation to visit the United States on Sunday as her first overseas trip since taking office, the Yonhap News Agency reported Friday. The 51-member economic delegation, largest in history, include the heads of South Korea's five largest business organizations, such as Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, Hyundai Motor ...
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DPRK preparing for large-scale air land exercise along Yellow Sea coast ROK
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is preparing to conduct a large-scale air, land combined forces exercise along its Yellow Sea coast, as it lets loose a steady barrage of verbal attacks against South Korea and the United States for conducting joint military drills. South Korea said intelligence picked up signs that the country may conduct an exercise around Nampho that ...
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DPRK Kaesongs fate at critical point
The DPRK says the fate of the Kaesong industrial complex is at a critical point, but has not given any more details about what it plans for the future. The spokesman says his country is watching closely whether South Korea's latest move is confrontational behavior, for which it will pay a heavy price. He says the DPRK attaches much importance to the complex. But he says it is South Korea ...
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36 killed in floods in southern China
At least 36 people have died and ten others have been reported missing in downpours that have swept south China's Guangdong Province since Wednesday. Rainstorms battered five cities, including the provincial capital Guangzhou, on Wednesday and Thursday, triggering heavy flooding in some areas. The flood water levels of some rivers in Guangdong have surpassed warning lines and the Beijiang ...
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Chengdu key for China on economic integration says Spanish
Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at the IESE Business School, believes that the Chinese southwestern city of Chengdu will play a very important role in China's integration in the global economy.Chengdu, the capital city of China's Sichuan Province, "will carry out a very important role in not only assuring that China is increasingly integrated in the global economy, ...
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Australia the energy superpower?
A new boom in the extraction of Australia's natural gas reserves will have immense economic benefits for the country and especially the state of Western Australia, but conservationists warn of an environmental impact.
Australia is a country rich in natural resources, because of this its economy is an export driven one, and coal, iron ore, wool, meat, gold, and wheat are some of its main exports. It was in the 1920’s that Australia’s economic potential was underpinned by the gold rush that saw its population triple in size in just ten years. Read more
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