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...
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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
