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Democratic Party of Japan new leader Yukio Hatoyama speaks to the media during a news conference after being elected its leader in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, May 16, 2009. Hatoyama takes control after the party's previous boss Ichiro Ozawa stepped down amid a political funding scandal.
(photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
Kyodo news summary -6-+
Breitbart
TOKYO, Feb. 8 (AP) - (Kyodo)—---------- Hatoyama approves Ozawa's remaining as DPJ's No. 2 | TOKYO - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who is also president of the Democratic Party of Japan, said Monday he approved DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's decision to remain in the ruling party's No. 2...
Samsung LCD TV
(photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Samsung, Sharp agree on cross-licencing deal
m&c
| Seoul - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co said Monday it concluded a cross-licencing deal with its Japanese competitor Sharp Corp, ending patent disputes in liquid crystal display (LCD) technology. | Samsung, the world's largest maker of LCDs and televisions said both parties agreed Friday to s...
World Agenda: Ban Ki-moon hopes to make his reputation in North Korea
The Times
| Ban Ki-moon got his job as United Nations Secretary-General because of one item on his curriculum vitae. | The former South Korean Foreign Minister had served as Seoul's representative to the six-party talks on the country's hermetic neighbour Nort...
Japan agrees to help boost Palestinian economy
Khaleej Times
TOKYO - Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Monday agreed with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to help grow the economy of the Palestinian territories, officials said. | Hatoyama and Abbas, in Japan for a four-day visit, also agreed that Isra...
2ND LD: 2 Koreas fail to agree on cross-border tours+
Breitbart
SEOUL/BEIJING, Feb. 8 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING WITH N. KOREA'S ISSUANCE OF STATAMENT THREATENING S. KOREA) | Officials from the two Koreas failed to reach agreement on steps to resume tours to North Korea as they met in the North Korean bor...
JSE buoyed by firmer metal prices
Business Report
  | Submit your comment | The JSE was firmer in midday trade on Monday, buoyed by stronger resource counters amid higher metal prices. | At noon, the JSE all share index was 1.27 percent firmer, with resources gaining 2.41 percent, platinum mine...
American missionary Robert Park is seen inside a vehicle after arriving at the Beijing Capital Airport, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. His arrival in Beijing came a day after North Korea announced it would free Robert Park.
AP / Andy Wong
North Korea releases U.S. Christian activist
The Star
| BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. religious activist taken captive by North Korea in December arrived in China on Saturday and will next fly back to the United States, an official with ...
European Economic Woes Threaten US Rebound
EC / EC
European Economic Woes Threaten US Rebound
CBS News
Washington Post: Europe Crises Send Stocks Tumbling; Concern Over Euro Zone Stability Eclipses Signs of Recovery | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | European Commissioner f...
People follow foreign stock prices in a brokerage in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008, after Hungary reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union on a broad economic rescue package, including substantial financing to stabilize the country's economy rocked by the global financial crisis. Hungary's currency and stock market were rising Wednesday after the International Monetary Fund said the country would get an aid package of up to $25.1 billion (20 billion euros) to rescue its economy hit hard by the global financial cri
AP / Bela Szandelszky
World stocks tumble amid global recovery doubts
Newsday
| February 5, 2010  JOE McDONALD (AP Business Writer) | (AP) — World stocks tumbled Friday as ballooning European debt and a rise in U.S. unemployment claims added to fears ...
North Korea threatens South amid push to restart talks
Tulsa World
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned South Korea that any attempt to bring down the communist country would draw "strong measures" from its military, a threat issued Monday even as Pyongyang embarked on a flurry of diplomacy with Seoul, Washingt...
China presses N Korea over talks
Al Jazeera
| China has sent a senior envoy to North Korea in a bid to restart stalled nuclear disarmament talks. | Wang Jiarui, the head of the Chinese Communist Party's international department, met Thae-bok, a high-ranking North Korean ruling party official o...
Seoul, Berlin find common ground on financial regulation, trade
m&c
| Seoul - German President Horst Koehler said Monday that he and his South Korean counterpart are in 'full agreement' that the international financial economy needs 'clear liability regulations.' | He spoke after meeting President Lee Myung Bak, wher...
Disarmament Diplomacy
President Barack Obama delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2009, about passage of the tobacco legislation.
(photo: AP / Ron Edmonds)
Obama keeps North Korea off US terror list
Breitbart
| This undated picture, released from North Korea's official Korean Central N... | President Barack Obama on Wednesday certified that North Korea would remain off the US list of terrorist states, despite some calls from Congress for the Stalinist state to be put back on. | The former administration of president George W. Bush took Pyongyang off the...



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