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Microsoft boosts Japan Azure offering adds data centers
IDG News Service - Microsoft will boost its Azure cloud offering in Japan, adding two domestic data centers to speed response times and improve reliability in the face of natural disasters. The software giant said Thursday that it would add cloud-based hosting services in two regions, one near Tokyo and one in the Kansai region further south. Redundancy is a priority in earthquake-prone Japan, ...
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5 dead 4 injured in E China road accident
/enpproperty--> JI'NAN - Five people have died and four others were injured in a road accident in East China's Shandong province on Thursday, local authorities said. The accident happened around 4 a.m. on a highway in Chengwu County, sources with the county government said. Two people died on the spot and seven others were injured after a three-wheel motorcycle they were in ...
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China Switzerland get more to cooperate on
/enpproperty--> ZURICH, Switzerland - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming visit to Switzerland is not only expected to be a great push for bilateral economic exchanges, but also a demonstration of China's resolution in further opening up and participating in multilateral affairs. Switzerland is the third leg of Li's first overseas trip as premier. He's currently on an ...
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China and India should deepen ties
China and India should ignore obstacles created by the West and strengthen cooperation, says an article in the 21st Century Business Herald (excerpts ...
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Swiss free-trade deal a key global sign Chinas Li
ZURICH: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sees a looming free-trade deal with Switzerland as a touchstone for Beijing's growing ties with foreign nations, he told a Swiss newspaper on Thursday ahead of a landmark visit to Europe.Li was scheduled to arrive in Switzerland late on Thursday for trade-focused talks in what is the first stop on his debut visit to Europe since taking over in a ...
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Important for Japan and China to work towards stabilising ties PM Lee
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said it is important for Japan and China to take a longer term perspective and work towards stabilising ...
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Whats driving one of Chinas richest men
Wang Jianlin , founder and chairman of closely held Wanda Group and one of the richest men in China, knows how to pack a visitor's itinerary. One day in April, he flies Hawk Koch, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, from Beijing to Dalian, a port city on the Yellow Sea, in his Gulfstream G550. Wang is launching an international film festival in Dalian, and ...
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Asia Pacific Market Stocks fall as Fed downscale bond purchases woes Chinese manufacturing weakens
Vedanta raises $1.7bn via bonds;to repay part of Cairn debt Firm claims this is one of the largest corporate high-yield bond issuances out of Asia ...
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Gold Price Bounces 3 with Silver as Tokyo Stocks Sink China Slows US Fed Discusses Immediately Cutting $85Bn in Monthly QE
pushed higher Thursday morning in London, with silver making the same 3.0% rally from yesterday's sell-off while world stock markets slid and commodities fell.Tokyo's Nikkei index - up by 85% from November - dumped more than 7% after new data showed a surprise contraction in China's manufacturing sector.Private "retail" investors have "abducted" the Japanese ...
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China plans tougher quality standards for coal to tackle pollution
A man stands in front of a house that is surrounded by piles of coal near the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, located 250 km (155 miles) southwest of Beijing December 7, ...
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Indications Stock futures sink rattled by Fed China data
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures slumped on Thursday after Japanese equities plunged overnight, as fears over a tapering of the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program and weak Chinese economic data combined to spook investors around the ...
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Tibetan rights groups criticise China over monks five-year jail term
Tibetan monks at a ceremony in Qinghai province. Tibetan rights activists have expressed outrage at China jailing monk and author Gartse Jigme for five years. Photograph: Reinhard ...
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Did James Rosens Story on North Korea Do Any Harm
story that Fox News correspondent James Rosen published on North Korea, kicking off a federal leak investigation and the FBI accusation that he was guilty of criminal conduct. "U.S. intelligence officials have warned President Obama and other senior American officials that North Korea intends to respond to the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution this weekwith another nuclear ...
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North Korea says willing to take Chinas advice to start talks
Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in Pyongyang. North Korea sent Choe, one of its top military officials, as a ''special ...
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Top Chinese leader urges North Korea envoy to work toward denuclearization
Choe, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army of North Korea, walks at Pyongyang airport before leaving for ...
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Blind activist who escaped house arrest says China cant be trusted
LONDON: "Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai" may be the flavour in Delhi after the recent visit of Chinese premier Li Keqiang. However, a strong word of caution has come from one of China's most wanted men Chen Guangcheng. Chen, a blind activist who became an international hero after he became the first person to escape house arrest in Beijing for exposing forced abortions and sterilizations ...
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Abe poses inside jet plane numbered 731 at ASDF base
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe poses inside a T-4 training jet plane of the Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse flight team at the ASDF base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture on May 12, 2013 as part of his inspection tour of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster areas. The number 731 reminds people of Unit 731, which was a covert biological and chemical warfare ...
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Osaka Mayor Japan must admit invasion and apologize
Toru Hashimoto Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who co-heads the opposition Japan Restoration Party, told reporters Monday that Japan must admit invasion of Asian countries as a result of its WWII defeat and introspection and apology is a must given the fact that it had brought so much pain to its neighbors. However, speaking of the issue of comfort women, also known as sex slaves, the mayor made a ...
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China should reconsider who owns Okinawa Peoples Daily
China's top newspaper on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan's sovereignty over the island of Okinawa. The article in the People's Daily argued that the country may have rights to the Ryukyu chain, which includes Okinawa. The authors of the article, two scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said the Ryukyus were a "vassal state" of China ...
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Naval shift to Asia on track despite budget cuts U.S.
Plans to expand the American naval presence in the Pacific with new ships and hi-tech weaponry will go ahead despite steep budget cuts, the U.S. Navy chief said before a trip to the region. Admiral Jonathan Greenert told AFP in an interview he will seek to "reassure" partners during a nine-day trip to Japan, Singapore and South Korea that mounting pressure on military spending will ...
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UPDATE 1-Japan govt Nikkei plunge temporary wont derail Abenomics
Thu May 23, 2013 7:52am EDT * Japan government puts brave face on Nikkei plunge * Government, investors agree trigger was China data, recent rise * Top spokesman says no change to 'Abenomics' * Biggest slide since 2011 quake, tsunami (Adds government officials, market analysis) By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO, May 23 (Reuters) - The biggest plunge in Japanese stock prices since a 2011 ...
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US STOCKS-Futures fall on stimulus plan concerns China data
Thu May 23, 2013 7:46am EDT * HP jumps after raising 2013 outlook * China manufacturing data shows contraction * Futures off: Dow 101 pts, S&P 14.2 pts, Nasdaq 25.5 pts By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Thursday, putting the S&P 500 on track for its first daily back-to-back declines in a month, amid investor concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve may ...
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Cricket Australia batsman David Warner apologies for Twitter rant
Australia opening batsman, said on Thursday he regretted not keeping a lid on his outrage but maintained he had to defend himself after his image was used in a report condemning ...
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Boeing gets green light from China for 787s
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Boeing Co. has reportedly received approval from China's aviation regulator for the 787 Dreamliner to begin commercial service with the nation's airlines. Chinese airlines have ordered a total of 35 Dreamliners, the Wall Street Journal reports. The regulatory approval will help the airlines replace their older planes at a faster pace and expand their fleets to ...
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Ford to halt output in Australia in 2016
Melbourne - Ford announced Thursday it would cease making vehicles at its unprofitable Australian plants in 2016 and axe 1,200 jobs, having produced its first car in the country in ...
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Asia Pacific leads world in creating wealth
The Asia Pacific region houses a higher proportion of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) than any other region on earth.
The claim is part of the World Wealth Report prepared by Merrill Lynch which studied wealth effects in seventy one countries, which account for 98% of global gross income and 99% of world stock market capitalization. Read more
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