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Japans All Nippon Airways first to resume Dreamliner flights
The airline with the greatest number of Boeing's new Dreamliner jets will be the first to resume commercial flights with it on Sunday, four months after the 787 jet was grounded over safety ...
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China A nation on the move
China is at a crossroads. Its leaders are committed to dramatically transforming the world's second-largest economy. They want so-called knowledge businesses to supplement manufacturing. They want to increase domestic consumption to bolster growth. They want the world to covet Chinese brands. Business and political leaders from around the world will discuss and debate this ambitious vision ...
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The problem with Japans high-stakes economic mind game | Alex Hern
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe 'has one of the strongest mandates ever to follow unconventional economic policies.' Photograph: Toru ...
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Russia welcomes North Koreas readiness for dialogue
North Korea's declaration of readiness to return to talks with world powers, a senior Russian diplomat was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying on Friday. "The fact that Pyongyang has declared its readiness and desire to return to the negotiating tabledeserves a positive assessment," Interfax quoted Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy Grigory Logvinov as saying. A ...
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Maserati recalls 692 cars in China
Maserati Granturismo models manufactured between July 31, 2003 and September 25, 2008, said the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine (AQSIQ). The vehicles had "substandard" rear tyre-rods, which "could result in loss of control" depending on road conditions, ...
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Liberia China Expresses Interest in Mt. Wologizi
The Government of the People's Republic of China says the controversial Wologizi Mountain in Lofa County remains its vested area of investment in Liberia. Chinese Ambassador to Liberia Zhao Jianhua said even though no formal negotiation has been made yet, but his country has expressed interest in the mountain. "Wologizi remains one of China's interests, but it has to be ...
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Ethnic Indian party in Malaysia faces new rival
KUALA LUMPUR: The entry of a hitherto shunned ethnic Hindu body into the folds of the prime minister's department has rattled Malaysia's largest Indian-origin political party. ...
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Chinas military officials meet with Polish minister
Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Fan Changlong and Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Chang Wanquan met separately with Polish defense minister Tomasz Siemoniak in Beijing on Friday.During the talks between Chang and Siemoniak, Chang said China will work with Poland to enhance military cooperation on high-level visits, personnel training and medical ...
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Taiwan cuts 2013 GDP growth forecast
Taiwan on Friday cut its 2013 GDP growth forecast to 2.4 percent from initially estimated 3.59 percent as faltering global recovery weighs on the island's economy.The island's statistical authority also lowered the inflation forecast this year to 1.23 percent from previous forecast of 1.37 ...
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Indian PM to visit Japan next week
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will embark on a three-day visit to Japan next week, which was scrapped last year following announcement of general elections in Japan, sources said Friday.During Singh's tour from May 27 to 30 at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, both India and Japan are to raise their security relationship to new heights by working out modules for a ...
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President Xi reaffirms denuclearization on Korean Peninsula
President Xi Jinping reaffirmed China's stance of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula here on Friday, stressing that targets should be met by all parties involved no matter how the situation evolves.In his meeting with Choe Ryong Hae, the special envoy of Kim Jong Un, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Xi stressed that denuclearization and long-lasting ...
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Li slams EUs trade policies against China
/enpproperty--> ZURICH, Switzerland - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Friday criticized the European Union's trade measures against China-made mobile telecommunications equipment and solar panels. The measures "harm others without benefiting oneself," Li said in a speech delivered here at a luncheon with business and financial ...
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Exiled cleric who taught UK soldiers killer praises courage
Lee Rigby on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain in ...
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How Well Do China and India Know Each Other
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves at the media in front of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his ceremonial reception at the Indian President's palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. (Saurabh ...
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North Korea says will take positive steps for peace
Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in ...
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Germany tops Japan in popularity poll
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
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China to issue 26b yuan in two-year T-bonds
The Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday that it will sell 26 billion yuan (4.2 billion US dollars) in two-year book-entry treasury bonds. The issuance marks the ministry's 12th issuance of book-entry treasury bonds this year, the ministry said in a statement on its website. ( The bonds carry a fixed annual interest rate of 2.98 percent. The interest will be paid every year on May 27, ...
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NKorean envoy delivers letter to Chinas Xi
A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday as part of efforts to mend fences after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear ...
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Abe on 1st trip to Myanmar by Japan PM in 36 years
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is traveling to Myanmar on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Tokyo bids to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of frosty relations with the previous military ...
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Happy to enhance China-India friendship
After graduating from University, I got a job offer from China Radio International, whichwas a new challenge for me and an opportunity as well.CRI aims topromote understanding and friendship between the people of China and people throughout the world. CRI has more than two hundred foreign experts. I was working in Hindi department. As I had advantage of knowing Chinese language, I got appraisal ...
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Ferrari to recall 692 vehicles in China
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari will recall 692 vehicles imported by the Chinese mainland due to defective rear tie-rods, China's quality supervisor said Friday. The recall by Ferrari Maserati Cars Sales and Services (Shanghai) Co. will cover Ferrari's Quattroporte and Maserati Granturismo models manufactured between July 31, 2003 and September 25, ...
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Ex-sex slaves condemn Japan mayor
Two Korean former sex slaves have demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and cancelled a meeting with him for justifying Japan's wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution for its ...
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Chinas next economic revolution
Wanda Group of Dalian is building domestic theme parks and resorts. And the Chinese government is investing heavily in roads and railways to help middle-class and affluent consumers get there. These massive infrastructure projects help keep citizens employed -- and, more important, could help China reach its next ...
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Heathrow airport closed after British Airways plane on fire over central London makes emergency landing
A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow as eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft "on fire" flying over central ...
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Is Japan’s premier afraid of ghosts
Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet on Friday formally denied months-long rumours that the premier had not moved into his official residence over fears the mansion is ...
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Chinese shipping industry is not the only one causing environmental incidents
The recent highly publicized grounding of a Chinese bulk carrier on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia attracted the scrutiny of the world on the Chinese shipping industry with some commentators saying that the accident was indicative of a dysfunctional health and safety record throughout the industry in China.
China’s shipping industry is primarily made up of the state-owned and run COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company), and it is this company to whom the Shen Neng 1 belongs. The Shen Neng 1 is not the only COSCO ship to be involved in a notable maritime accident. Read more
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