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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
(photo: AP / Andy Wong)
China's Exports Rise 46%
The New York Times
| 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 and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month o...
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens to Chinese President Hu Jintao, as they attend a state dinner reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Standing behind them are their translators.
(photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics
Asia Times
| By Willy Lam | China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreement. What is new is China's mu...
Novel Idea for Japan: Airport for Budget Travel
The New York Times
| MITO, JAPAN — The diktat from the governor was the kind of sweeping order that gives Japanese bureaucrats heart attacks: plans for a three-story airport terminal, painstakingly laid over years, were to be scrapped and replaced with a single-f...
Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics
Asia Times
| By Willy Lam | China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related...
Pakistan risks IMF's $1.2bn
Asia Times
| By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI, Pakistan - Islamabad's tardiness in naming a finance minister to succeed Shaukat Tarin, who resigned on February 23 to pursue his own business interests, may delay the release of US$1.2 billion from the Internationa...
China assesses its gold strategy
Asia Times
| By Russell Hsiao | Chinese leaders convening in Beijing for the annual plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) - China's ceremonial legislature - this week will, among other things, hammer out a blueprint for the ascendancy of the c...
President Barack Obama acknowledges mayors in the audience as he addresses the U.S. Conference of Mayors at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.
AP / Charles Dharapak
Sarkozy to take tanker fight to Obama
Philadelphia Daily News
| The Associated Press | PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will raise concerns that the U.S. Air Force's $35 billion tanker contract is anticompetitive when he visits Presid...
An investor looks at the stock prices monitor at a private securities company Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008 in Shanghai, China. Chinese shares have dropped on profit-taking despite a decline in inflation and a government pledge to keep economic growth stable in 2009. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.28 percent, or 47.44 points, to close at 2031.68. (AP Photo)
AP
Stock futures inch higher ahead of opening
Syracuse
| (AP) - NEW YORK - Investors are continuing to search for direction Wednesday, after two days of relatively flat trading. Stock futures edged higher. | The Dow Jones industrial av...
 Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the final hour of trading, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. Wall Street advanced for the third straight session Wednesday, although the Dow Jones industrial average fell just short of touching its
AP/Richard Drew
Stock Futures Narrowly Mixed Ahead of Opening
The New York Times
| Filed at 8:14 a.m. ET | NEW YORK (AP) -- Investors are continuing to search for direction Wednesday, after two days of relatively flat trading. Stock futures are narrowly mixed. ...
Euro rises to session high against the yen
The Guardian
NEW YORK, March 10 (Reuters) - The euro rose 1 percent to a session high against the yen on Wednesday, more on yen weakness than on any specific news. The yen has been weak across the board as investors assess the likelihood there will be more moneta...
New conservation fund to rally businesses with wildlife logos+
Breitbart
TOKYO, March 10 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A new fund is being planned to draw support from businesses using animals and plants for their corporate logos and trademarks in efforts to save endangered species, organizers said Wednesday. | The US$10 million fu...
Sarkozy to take tanker fight to Obama
Houston Chronicle
| PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will raise concerns that the U.S. Air Force's $35 billion tanker contract is anticompetitive when he visits President Barack Obama later this month, a spokesman said Wednesday. | EADS, the parent company of ...
Politics
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.
(photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
REFILING: 2ND LD: DPJ agrees to New Komeito request to expand child-allowance scope+
Breitbart
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 scope of the government's planned monthly child-rearing allowances to children at child-care institutions, as requested by the opposition New Komeito pa...
Economy
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens to Chinese President Hu Jintao, as they attend a state dinner reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Standing behind them are their translators.
(photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Beijing seeks a shift in geopolitics
Asia Times
| By Willy Lam | China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreement. What is new is China's much-enhanced global clout in the wake of the world ...



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