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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in South Korea to discuss the effort to get North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks.
Clinton arrived in Seoul on Saturday and was to see South Korea’s foreign minister before meeting the country’s president early Sunday. She will then travel to Japan to show U.S. support for […]
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China’s faster-than-expected growth in exports and imports last month may allow Premier Wen Jiabao to strengthen his fight against inflation, which probably exceeded his target for the ninth straight month in March.
Overseas shipments jumped 35.8 percent and imports climbed 27.3 percent, unexpectedly pulling the trade balance into surplus after a $7.3 billion shortfall in […]
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In recent weeks, a political consensus has begun to emerge on the benefits of removing restrictions on foreign ownership in the telecommunications sector. Implementing such reforms faces at least one major political stumbling block that is tangentially related
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A federal judge overseeing lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. for sudden acceleration problems is considering ways to prevent leaks of the source code the carmaker calls the “crown jewel” of its intellectual property.
U.S. District Judge James B. Selna said Friday that the automaker can monitor plaintiff experts’ access to its proprietary source code and they […]
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Nearly 50 percent of respondents of a newspaper poll are calling for the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
In the new survey by the Asahi daily, 49 percent of respondents say Kan should step down immediately.
Kan, Japan’s fifth leader in less than four years, took office last June. Public support for his Cabinet has […]
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On the game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” the right decision could mean a nice vacation, a chunk of cash or, ta-dum, a goofy gag
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A strengthening U.S. recovery means the depressing influence of the winter storms that disrupted travel from Chicago to New York over the past few days and blanketed much of the country in January will be temporary, economists said.
Sales at chain stores fell 0.9 percent in the month ended Jan. 29, cutting the gain over […]
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New Zealand’s trade deficit widened in December, after the delivery of a commercial jet offset an increase in exports to a seven-month high.
The shortfall was NZ$250 million ($192 million) from NZ$186 million in November, Statistics New Zealand said today in Wellington. The median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of nine economists was […]
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The biggest quarterly jump in Japanese government bond yields since 2008 may prompt policy makers to seek more foreign buyers for the nation’s debt.
“Japanese government debt is nearing its limit, and we need to find more places to sell government bonds, including overseas,” Vice Finance Minister Fumihiko Igarashi said in an interview in his […]
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