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Four teenagers from an American military base in Japan were arrested on charges of attempted murder on Saturday for allegedly toppling a woman riding her motorbike, causing her to suffer a serious head injury. In the August episode, which has...

Addressing a gathering at the screening and a photo exhibition on 'Environment Protection' organised by Consulate General of France here on Tuesday, Khan said: "Every individual must be utmost cautious and not to waste natural resources, be it water or...

Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa sought support from a major business lobby for creating a low-carbon society and economy in Japan to combat climate change Wednesday, days ahead of a key U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen.     ‘‘We can never...

The political funds scandal involving the family of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has apparently spread to his brother as Kunio Hatoyama, a former internal affairs and communications minister, has been found to have received a large sum of money from...

Even as most countries have come to believe that not much would be achieved at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) at Copenhagen next month in terms of arriving at a consensus on how to save...

Japan wants developing countries, including China and India, to accept a legally binding greenhouse gases emission cuts at the upcoming 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties on climate change at Copenhagen. Kazua Kodama, press secretary of the Japanese...

Japan's Honda Motor Co Ltd has again produced the most fuel efficient and least polluting vehicles on American roads, the US government projections for 2009 showed on Friday. South Korea's Hyundai-Kia and Toyota Motor Corp, also based in Japan, followed...

Instead, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has suggested that the project, proposed by the Department of Atomic Energy, be moved to a site near the Suruliyar falls in Theni district of Tamil Nadu. Suruliyar was one of the several...

Development Program hailed Saturday China's new energy efficiency target to fight global warming, saying it is ''important and ambitious'' and ''injects momentum'' into the lead-up to a U.N. climate change conference next month in Copenhagen. To access full stories on...