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News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 year ago
Morgan Stanley for $9 billion but will purchase only preferred shares under a new deal, instead of an initial agreement which called for the purchase of both preferred and common shares. To access full stories on Kyodo News English website, it is...
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News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 year ago
Hong Kong faces imminent risk of economic recession next year as the real impact of a global financial ''tsunami'' is approaching, the region's financial secretary said Monday. Secretary John Tsang's warning came despite a resurgent stock...
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News Source: Kyodo News
| about 1 year ago
Ichiro Ozawa, president of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, was discharged from a Tokyo hospital Monday after a weeklong treatment for complications from a cold, a DPJ official said. Since he was hospitalized Oct. 6, the 66-year-...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
North Korea Monday restored access for U.N. monitors to its plutonium-producing nuclear complex, a day after pledging to resume work to disable it in a deal with the United States, diplomats told Reuters. "The (International Atomic Energy Agency)...
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News Source: GMA News
| about 1 year ago
South Korea – The 66-year-old man in the photos appeared the picture of health, full of vigor despite reports he underwent brain surgery less than two months ago. He was surrounded by serious, crisply uniformed soldiers and in the background there...
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News Source: The Journal Gazette
| about 1 year ago
South Korea – North Korea said Sunday it will resume disabling its key nuclear complex after the U.S. dropped the country from a terrorism blacklist – a breakthrough expected to help energize stalled talks aimed at ending the country’s atomic...
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News Source: CNSNews.com
| about 1 year ago
Washington’s decision to remove North Korea from its terror-sponsor list, not an unexpected step, is aimed at salvaging a fragile denuclearization deal that had begun to unravel. The move announced Saturday came after the Stalinist regime...
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News Source: The Herald
| about 1 year ago
The Japanese Foreign Ministry has reacted with equanimity to the United States' removal of North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states, with a senior ministry official maintaining that there will be no major change in the situation...
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News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
It was one of the worst weeks in the history of the Japanese stock market. At the end of it, the talk in Tokyo financial circles was of "total capitulation" and of a mood gone "well beyond panic". Share prices collapsed in a tailspin of selling and...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
South Korea is considering expanding cross-border projects with North Korea following major progress in an international standoff over the communist country's nuclear program, an official said Monday. On Saturday, the United States removed North...