News Source: Sify News
| 2 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested the US is prepared to engage in direct talks with North Korea to encourage the communist country to rejoin negotiations over its nuclear programme. But Clinton said there had been no formal decision...
News Source: The Jakarta Post
| 2 months ago
The top officials resigned after holding their final Cabinet meeting early Wednesday morning, officials at the prime minister's office said. The resignations were a formality so that parliament's lower house, now controlled by Hatoyama's party...
News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| 2 months ago
Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso and his Cabinet have resigned en masse, paving the way for parliament to elect Yukio Hatoyama as the country's next leader. Officials at the prime minister's office say Aso and his Cabinet resigned after having their...
News Source: BBC
| 2 months ago
Japan's parliament is due to meet to formally name Yukio Hatoyama as the next prime minister...It ended more than half a century of almost unbroken power by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Mr Hatoyama must tackle a rapidly aging society and an...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 2 months ago
Japan's new centre-left government is due to take power on Wednesday in a fresh start for Asia's top economy, which has been under conservative rule for almost all of the post-war era. Yukio Hatoyama, head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), was...
News Source: Kyodo News
| 2 months ago
Hirohisa Fujii, who is set to become Japan's next finance minister, has long been considered one of the most knowledgeable people about budgetary matters in the Democratic Party of Japan and a close ally of DPJ heavyweight Ichiro Ozawa. DPJ...