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Asia NewsRetreat of the Foreign Investor Is Singularly Painful for Japan2008-01-24 06:01 - Japan’s Nikkei index has lost a third of its value since July, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange has lost $1.3 trillion in value ? equivalent to the entire economy of Canada. Pakistan: U.S. Commander and Army Chief Hold Talks 2008-01-24 06:01 - Adm. William J. Fallon, the senior American military commander in the Middle East, arrived for a one-day visit and called on President Pervez Musharraf’s successor as army chief. Thailand: The Junta Exits 2008-01-24 04:56 - The military council that ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 disbanded, promising ?no more coups.? Asian Markets Endure 2 Brutal Days of Plunges 2008-01-24 04:55 - The stark sell-off that sent global stock prices plummeting brought renewed concern that the equity markets in China and India might be overvalued. Vietnam Agrees to the Return of Deportees From the U.S. 2008-01-24 04:55 - Vietnam, which had generally refused to issue travel documents for the deportees, agreed to accept the return of the immigrants, many of whom are convicted criminals. China Offers Plan to Clean Up Its Polluted Lakes 2008-01-24 04:55 - The government has announced new regulation that will limit fish farms and require better treatment of wastewater, among other measures. In Pakistan, TV Network Loses Bite in Its Return 2008-01-23 06:01 - Pakistan’s most popular private television news channel was allowed to resume broadcasts within Pakistan on Monday, ending a blackout that had lasted more than two months. North Suspends Inter-Korean Talks 2008-01-23 06:01 - North Korea has postponed the first inter-Korean dialogue of this year, citing time constraints, the Unification Ministry in South Korea said. The countries were to hold talks Tuesday and Wednesday on repairing a cross-border railway and transporting a joint cheering squad to the Beijing Olympics this year by train. No new date was set. ?We don?t know exactly why North Korea decided to suspend this week’s inter-Korean meeting,? a ministry spokesman said. He refused to confirm a report by the Yonhap news agency that the suspension was a sign of uneasiness over the South’s new hawkish president, Lee Myung-bak, who takes office Feb. 25 and intends to make aid packages conditional on nuclear compliance under the six-nation talks. Last week, Mr. Lee unveiled plans to abolish the Unification Ministry, which he has accused of being too soft on the North. Thailand: Democracy Returns, and Politics Comes Full Circle 2008-01-23 06:01 - Parliament convened for the first time since last month’s election and since Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted as prime minister in a military coup in 2006. Japan: Fujitsu Spins Off Unit 2008-01-23 04:56 - Fujitsu said that it would spin off its semiconductor division in a move that could make it easier for the new company to establish alliances with other chip makers and to share the significant development costs expected as the industry gears up for bigger silicon wafers. The company wants to spin off the semiconductor division by March, a company spokesman, Toshiyuki Fukuoka, said. The spinoff will begin as a 100 percent Fujitsu-owned subsidiary. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 |
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