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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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China too strong for Indonesia
Defending champion China trounced arch rival Indonesia 5-0 to top Group A of the Sudirman Cup in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, declaring it is ready to face anyone in tomorrow's ...
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Coach accident kills 4 in NE China
The accident happened at around 3:30 p.m. on the National Expressway 202 near the city of Anshan, according to an official from the city's publicity ...
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Taiwan tourists start canceling travel plans in Boracay
Taiwanese tourists to Boracay, a world-renowned resort in central Philippines, have started canceling hotel reservations since Taiwan issued an advisory against traveling to the country after Philippine Coast Guards killed a Taiwan ...
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Japan uses sound waves against Chinese sub
A Maritime Self-Defence Force patrol plane used sound waves emitted from a sonobuoy against a submarine detected in the contiguous zone around Minami-Daitojima island in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday, according to government sources. The action against the submarine, which is believed to belong to the Chinese Navy, is an apparent demonstration that the MSDF is steadily monitoring the movement of ...
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China earthquake may force new census of panda population
China may launch a fourth major census of wild giant pandas in 2014 because of the effects of the magnitude-7 earthquake that jolted Sichuan province in April. Yan Xun, the State Forestry Administration's chief engineer for wildlife conservation, said at a news conference on Tuesday that no pandas were killed or injured in the Ya'an earthquake. Sichuan, home to the giant panda, has ...
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Bernard Tomic will play at the French Open according to Tennis Australias Todd Woodbridge
France Australian Tennis officials have been told Bernard Tomic will play in the French Open despite a ban imposed on his father and coach John.John Tomic is excluded from all men's tour events while he fights an assault charge after he headbutted his son's training partner in Spain.Tennis Australia's Todd Woodbridge says his relationship with Bernard Tomic is still strong and ...
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North Korean leader sends special envoy for leader Kim Jong Un to China
Choe Ryong Hae . There were no other details. Choe is the North Korea military's top political officer tasked with supervising the 1.2-million-strong force. China is North Korea's only major political and economic benefactor. Beijing has faced pressure from Washington to use its influence to ...
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Asia Markets Tokyo stocks lead Asia ahead of Bank of Japan meet
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks rallied toward fresh multiyear highs to lead broad gains for Asian markets Wednesday, as indications that the Federal Reserve Bank wasn't close to slowing its asset purchases lifted investor ...
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Japan considers resuming talks with North Korea media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has started looking into resuming inter-governmental talks with North Korea after a surprise visit to Pyongyang by an aide to Japan's prime minister, the Asahi Shimbun and other newspapers said on ...
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Japan’s cellphone lineups for summer 2013 — fit and focused
Lean and focused would be a good way to characterize the recently launched lineups from Japan's three top cellphone carriers. While NTT DoCoMo Inc. had released 18 kinds of smartphones last summer, it trimmed down to 9 for this ...
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North Korea opens border town to Western visitors
"Warmly welcome Simon Cockerell David." The colorful, electric sign was something of an unusual and unexpected greeting for Briton Simon Cockerell, 35, who this week embarked on a landmark visit to Sinuiju, North Korea's largest border town. Separated by a river from China's Dandong City and easily accessible from Dandong by car or train, Sinuiju has long been a popular ...
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Aftermath of Oklahoma tornado
Destroyed houses and toys are seen in Moore, Oklahoma, May 21, 2013, one day after a tornado moved through the area. A powerful tornado attacked on Monday afternoon the southern suburbs of the Oklahoma City, capital of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people, including 9 children. (Xinhua/Song ...
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Nine-man Beijing knocked out by Seoul in AFC Champions League
FC Seoul recovered from going a goal down and missing a penalty to beat Beijing Guoan 3-1 and reach the Asian Football Confederation Champions League quarterfinals in a dramatic last-16 match which saw three red cards on Tuesday. The South Korean champions were stunned by an early strike by Frederic Kanoute, and then watched Serbian dangerman Dejan Damjanovic miss from the spot, before three ...
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Manila protests against Chinese ships in Nansha Islands
(Photo:Agencies) The Philippines has protested the "illegal" presence of a Chinese warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal in Nansha Islands, the South China Sea, in the latest territorial squabble between the Asian countries, Philippine officials said Tuesday. Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said the Philippines denounced the ...
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N. Koreas special envoy Choe Ryong-hae leaves Pyongyang for China
Choe Ryong Hae(Photo:Agencies) North Korea says that a "special envoy" for leader Kim Jong Un has left for China. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a short dispatch Wednesday that the envoy was Choe Ryong Hae. There were no other details. Choe is the North Korea military's top political officer tasked with supervising the 1.2-million-strong force. Kim ...
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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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