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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
You can thank, in part, last year's collapse of the Korean won, which took the currency to 1600 to the U.S. dollar and 16 won per Japanese yen. That severely eroded the competitiveness of both Japanese and Chinese products.
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News Source: MarketWatch
| 5 months ago
Export-related shares were under pressure in Asian trading Thursday, as the future of the U.S. dollar came back into question amid growing challenges to its role as a trade-settlement currency. In the latest knock against the dollar's dominance in...
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News Source: Epoch Times
| 5 months ago
A militant stands at a tunnel entrance which was attacked by Israeli jets, in Naameh, 20 kms south of Beirut, 28 December 2005. During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war Hezbollah proved to be a tough opponent due to Viet Cong-style network of tunnels.(...
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News Source: Sify News
| 5 months ago
Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied in Pyongyang on Monday to condemn the U.N. rebuke of the country's latest nuclear test amid concern the communist regime could conduct another one. The U.S. and South Korea are scrutinizing 11 underground...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
ET The Associated Press North Korea qualified for its first World Cup finals since 1966 thanks to a 0-0 draw with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. North Korea joined Australia, Japan and South Korea as Asia's automatic qualifiers.
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 5 months ago
South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak vowed on Wednesday never to accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, while saying he hoped for an eventual reunification of the divided peninsula. Lee was in Washington, where he met a day earlier with President Barack...
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News Source: Inter Press Service
| 5 months ago
Ever since being elected as President in 2008, conservative Lee-Myung-bak has pursued a hard-line policy towards North Korea, with the country's left also blaming him for recent tensions in the peninsula. Criticising previous left-wing presidents for...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| 5 months ago
University of Miami president Donna Shalala has joined the directors of the bid committee trying to bring the World Cup to the United States in 2018 or 2022. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1993-2001, joins a board that includes...
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News Source: Star Tribune
| 5 months ago
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday that his nation and its allies will not be intimidated by nuclear threats from neighboring North Korea. Lee and President Barack Obama have used the South Korean leader's three-day visit to...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Russia has enough forces and resources in the Far Eastern region to detect and destroy missiles tested by North Korea if such a need arises, said Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin. "If a missile flies in Russia's direction, we will...