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A cargo ship loaded with containers disembarks from the Tianjin Port in China, March 4, 2009. China says the decline in its exports accelerated in February as a slump in global demand worsened, adding to pressure on China to pump up its economy with a massive stimulu
Business   China   Economy   Exports   Photos  
 The New York Times 
China's Exports Rise 46%
| BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States an... (photo: AP / Andy Wong)
In this combo made from file photos, the IBM logo is seen in front of the company's manufacturing plant in Essex Junction, Vt., left, and the Sun Microsystems logo is seen at the company's offices in Menlo Park, Calif
Cellphones   IBM   Photos   Research   Universities  
 Canada Dot Com 
IBM, universities target easy-to-use cellphones
       | HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate. | As growth in developed ... (photo: AP)
In this photo taken on Aug. 29, 2009, Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, waves during a last minute speech to the public in downtown Tokyo, Japan, during the last day for Parliament's lower house election campaign. Japan voted Sunday Aug. 30, 2009, in parliamentary elections expected to end the ruling conservative party's nearly 54 years in power and give a largely untested opposition a chance to make good on its promises to revive the ailing economy and turn around record-high unemployment.  Breitbart 
REFILING: 2ND LD: DPJ agrees to New Komeito request to expand child-allowance scope+
allowance scope+ (AP) - TOKYO, March 10 (Kyodo)—(EDS: CORRECTING DAY OF THE WEEK IN 2ND GRAF) | Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's ruling Democratic Party of Japan decided Wednesday to expand the sc... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
Health   Japan   Kids   Photos   Tokyo  
Dollar - Currency  Breitbart 
Dollar firms around 90 yen line amid lack of trading cues+
TOKYO, March 10 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The U.S. dollar held steady around the 90 yen line in subdued Tokyo trading Wednesday as market participants largely sat on the sidelines in the absence of fresh tr... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Currency   Dollar   Market   Photos   Trading  
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Canon Store for Cameras China Daily
Canon says China may become top camera market in 2015
| Canon Inc expects China's camera market to become the world's largest as early as 2015, overtaking the US, its head of the business said. | Canon, the world's biggest c... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Business   China   Industry   Market   Photos  
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Feb. 23, 2009. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1 The New York Times
Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range
| Shares traded within a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows. | With little in the way of economic reports or earnings to help drive s... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Economy   Investment   Market   Photos   US  
Toyota Supra MKIV from the en:2 Fast 2 Furious movie. The Daily Tribune
The Toyota myth is shattered
| ZOOMING IN | 03/10/2010 | With the quickening pace of technological advance and the globalization-induced intensification of international competitiveness during the 20... (photo: Creative Commons / Simon Davison)
Automaker   Business   Japan   Photos   US  
The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) enters Yokosuka, Japan The New York Times
Japan Drops Denial of Cold War 'Treaties'
| TOKYO — Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold-war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had allo... (photo: U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kyle D. Gahlau )
Defence   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   US  
Kangaroo in Motion taken in South West Rocks in Australia in February 2007, Nina May The Daily Telegraph Australia
Mystery kangaroo in Japanese mountains
| PEOPLE in a Japanese mountain region reported a number of kangaroo sightings, leading journalists to attempt to stalk the marsupials, AFP reports. | The descriptions gi... (photo: Creative Commons / Nina98097024)
Animal   Environment   Japan   Photos   Wildlife  
Corruption Sleazed
- ANALYSIS: So long, ambassador, and thanks for all the cash
- Sun Wukong
- China wages war on growing corruption
- 'Mambo Magsaysay' and Quirino's golden 'orin
Wen Jiabao, Chinese Prime Minister
China premier pledges attention to jobs, stability
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- China's Exports Rise 46%
- Novel Idea for Japan: Airport for Budget Travel
- China assesses its gold strategy
- Are you ready for the toilet of the future?
A cargo ship loaded with containers disembarks from the Tianjin Port in China, March 4, 2009. China says the decline in its exports accelerated in February as a slump in global demand worsened, adding to pressure on China to pump up its economy with a massive stimulu
China's Exports Rise 46%
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Drugs Prostitution
- Big drug haul from China seized in New Zealand
- Shanghai,Art of the City at the Asian: Soiled Doves, New Wom
- China boosts social spending, targets minorities
- WHO: Korean cooperation boosting health in north
Tibetans  in Dharamshala, India holding banner with 60 years of CCP. Time to retire!!!
China: Troublemaker on the World Stage?
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- China may ban consumption of cats and dogs
- Shanghai,Art of the City at the Asian: Soiled Doves, New Wom
- Inclusion in the 2014 Olympics feeds a boom time for golf in
- Compensated dating: Asia's teenagers dating older men fo
Chinese poet and novelist Liao Yiwu, 50, talks with a temple keeper at the earthquake damaged Gu Temple in Jiezi town of China's Sichuan Province Friday June 6, 2008.
For 13th Time, Critic of China's Government Is Barred From Leaving Country
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Law Freedom of Information
- A Quick Fix Gone Awry
- Marjah fears return of warlords
- A good bet on cash, tourists and crime
- Pakistan risks IMF's $1.2bn
Locals listen to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Marjah, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 7, 2010.
Marjah fears return of warlords
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- Dalai Lama asks Tibetan officials in China to visit exiles (
- CPPCC member: Beware of English invasion
- Editor Is Fired After Criticizing Chinese Registration Syste
- US-Born Panda Freed From Quarantine in China
Male giant Panda Tai Shan at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., 10 June 2007
US-Born Panda Freed From Quarantine in China
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