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China vows to open domestic markets to Indian businesses
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang today said that he would open up domestic markets to Indian businesses and narrow a gaping trade deficit between the two countries. "As for Indian concerns over the trade deficit, the Chinese side is willing to provide facilitation for more Indian products to access the Chinese market," Li said in an address to business leaders in the capital. ...
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Climbers from Bangladesh and South Korea die while descending from Everest
Two climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest on Monday night, officials confirmed.The climbers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh and Sung Ho-Seo of South Korea.Khil Lal Gautam, official at Tourism Ministry, said that Ho-Seo, who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen, refused to put on oxygen mask on returning to tent as suggested ...
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Vietnam to co-operate with Asia-Pacific countries in managing scarce water
Vietnam is willing to co-operate with countries and exchange experiences in managing water resources and coping with natural disasters.Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said this at the plenary session of the second Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, yesterday.Nhan said Viet Nam, like other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, was facing great challenges in water ...
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Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin insist Australia ready to reclaim Ashes urn against England
Australia Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and deputy Brad Haddin insist Australia's disastrous series in India is history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England.Clarke and his squad head to England in the knowledge they have not won an Ashes series on foreign soil since 2001 when Steve Waugh's men won in convincing fashion 4-1 before triumphing by the ...
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Arlington Family Speaks Out About Adoption Ordeal In China
Arlington family stuck in China after a scare at the U.S. Consulate General's Immigrant Visa Unit in Guangzhou. "We heard that it was one of these white powder scares and then they told us that the Consulate was closed," Tracy Antonelli said at her home in Arlington. Antonelli and her husband Patrick Mooty were there adopting their second child, 2 year old Rosalie. "There ...
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Bank of Japan stands pat ups economic outlook
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The Bank of Japan held its policy unchanged at the end of its two-day meeting Wednesday, while saying that the economy was improving. "Japan's economy has started picking up. Exports have stopped decreasing as overseas ecnomies have been moving out of the deceleration phase that had continued since last year and are gradually heading toward a pick-up," ...
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North Korea sends special envoy to China amid tension
April 15, 2012: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, chats with North Korean People's Army senior officers, Vice Marshal and the military's General Staff Chief Ri Yong Ho, left, and Vice Marshal and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Choe Ryong Hae, during a mass military parade in Pyongyang, North ...
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North Korea sends top Kim Jong-un aide to Beijing
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sent one of its top military officials to Beijing on Wednesday as a "special envoy" of its leader Kim Jong-un, state news agency KCNA ...
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Kewell unhappy with Australia omission
Club-less Australian Harry Kewell insists he is fit for his country's upcoming World Cup qualifiers despite playing just three games this year.Socceroos coach Holger Osieck is set to announce his squad for June's crucial matches against Japan, Jordan and Iraq on Thursday. Kewell, 34, has played three matches for Al Gharafa in Qatar since leaving the Melbourne Victory in June, 2012. But ...
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Tycoon says Australia treating mining firms as ATMs
Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart is pictured in Perth on June 9, 2010 Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart on Friday accused the government of using the mining industry as an ATM, warning of an unhealthy reliance on the sector and unsustainable debt levels. In a speech to the Australian Mines and Metals Association conference, the outspoken tycoon, chairman of Hancock ...
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Former Korean comfort women visit Japan to call for peace
Kim Bok-dong attends an event in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on May 19, to talk about her experience as a "comfort ...
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Philippine volcano spews rocks killing 5 climbers
A cloud of volcanic ash shoots up to the sky as Mayon volcano, one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes, erupts after daybreak, viewed from Legazpi city in Albay province in the central Philippines, Tuesday, May 7, 2013.(Photo:Agencies) Five people were killed while seven were wounded from falling rocks after Mayon Volcano spewed ash Tuesday, around 8 a.m. local time, Philippine ...
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North Koreas Kim Sends Envoy to China
The official Korean Central News Agency said Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean army, left Pyongyang for China Wednesday. The brief report provided no details about the purpose of the trip. Choe is believed to be the highest-level official Pyongyang has sent to Beijing since Mr. Kim took over leadership of the country following the death of his ...
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Japan parliament approves joining child abduction treaty
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved the joining of an international treaty on child abductions after decades of pressure from Washington and other Western nations.Japan is the only member of the Group of Eight major industrialised nations that has not ratified the 1980 Hague Convention, which requires nations to return snatched children to the countries where they usually ...
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Brazil is Australias perfect match ANU
Australia should boost its ties with Brazil as the South American nations continues its transformation into a global power, an ANU expert ...
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Top DPRK leaders envoy leaves for visit to China
A special envoy of Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), left Pyongyang Wednesday for a visit to China, the official KCNA news agency reported.Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, left Pyongyang by air for the visit, the KCNA ...
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Kyle Bass Bets on Full-Blown Japan Crisis
Kyle Bass hopes he is wrong, and so may everyone else, as the danger predicted by the founder of Dallas-based Hayman Capital is nothing less than a full blown financial crisis in the world's third-largest economy, Japan. While the hedge-fund trade of the year has been to short the yen and buy Japanese stocks placed for an export boom, Mr. Bass sees in "Abenomics" - stimulus from ...
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China Property Boom Keeps on Chugging
At the end of March, China's newly installed premier Li Keqiang publicly reiterated the government's determination to rein in rising property prices and a resurgent investment binge in the country's real estate market. But by every measure the market continued to boom in April, with prices, sales and investment in new buildings all accelerating from March. New house prices in 70 ...
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Chinas red-hot property market searching for remedy
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - As China's real estate prices continue to rise despite the central government's repeated housing curbs, experts have suggested the cure is to be found in market-oriented measures. China has been fine-tuning its property regulations since 2003, but average housing prices nationwide have more than tripled over the last decade, with some areas seeing prices ...
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China expects co-op with more Indian companies
/enpproperty--> MUMBAI - China welcomes more Indian enterprises to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts to achieve mutually beneficial and win-win results, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Tuesday. Li made the remarks when touring India's industrial giant Tata Group in the financial capital of Mumbai. Li said that the group, which opened an office in China's ...
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Li stresses global strategic significance of China-India ties
/enpproperty--> NEW DELHI - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stressed the global strategic significance of China-India relations Tuesday during a meeting with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee. "China and India are strategic partners and friendly neighbors, " Li told Mukherjee on the third day of his trip to India, the first leg of his first foreign trip since taking office in ...
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China sweeps Indonesia to reach quarters at Sudirman Cup
/enpproperty--> KUALA LUMPUR - Defending champion China beat Indonesia 5-0 in their second and last group match on Tuesday at the 13th Sudirman Cup team badminton ...
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Japan outlasts Denmark in thriller at Sudirman Cup
/enpproperty--> KUALA LUMPUR - Japan outgunned Denmark to top Gruop D after a nail-biting final group match at the 13th Sudirman Cup team badminton championships on Tuesday, while China overpowered Indonesia 5-0. The Japan-Denmark tie see-sawed with Denmark taking the lead after the first and third matches, only for Japan to equalize. After Denmark's mixed doubles pair of Joachim ...
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Strategic thinking on Chinas territory
Reform and Opening Up over the past 30 years, has fundamentally changed the Chinese economy from that of a traditional agricultural economy (that had lasted thousands of years) to a modern industrial economy. China has left its old policies of self-reliance and closed-door to one of opening-up, and actively promoting international trade and investment. It has gradually become the world's ...
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China-Japan trade will pick up
Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the countries' already strained ties, leading Chinese think tanks said in an annual report released on ...
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Singaporean expansion of MRT leads to disruption
Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit System (MRT) is not very big in comparison to Shanghai, Beijing or Tokyo, but proportionate to the size of Singapore and the city-state’s population, it is an extremely successful and extensive public transport system and one that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) plans to grow even further.
Singapore has a population of around 5 million, which is important when placing the MRT in context, it has a daily ridership of 2 million, giving it a commuter penetration of at least 40%, which does not take into account the fact that not all 5 million Singaporeans commute on a daily basis or use public transport. Read more
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