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Japan's re-elected PM moves on yen, faces China's furyTokyo (AFP) Sept 15, 2010 A day after Japan's prime minister survived a leadership challenge, his government Wednesday moved to tackle the yen's damaging surge but faced new protests from China in a bitter territorial row. Naoto Kan, in office just three months, received a fresh mandate from his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Tuesday when it confirmed him as party president, adding a measure of stability to Japan's turbulent politics. Most media broadly welcomed Kan's defeat of scandal-tainted party powerbroker Ichiro O ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2010China will send a team to Japan this week to probe the death of a giant panda on loan to a Japanese zoo and could seek 500,000 dollars in compensation for the loss, state press said Monday. Kou Kou died Thursday of cardiac arrest after failing to recover from an anaesthetic at the Oji Zoo in the western port city of Kobe. Veterinarians had sedated the 14-year-old male as part of a progra ... more  
Yeiliu, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 13, 2010Anti-Japanese activists Monday set sail for a disputed island chain in the East China Sea after alleging that government interference had forced them to scale down their protest voyage. Two activists and three crew members left a fishing port outside Taipei on board a fishing vessel, on a mission to support Taipei's claim to islands now at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Tokyo and ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 13, 2010Japan on Monday released the 14 crew of a Chinese fishing trawler that collided with two Japanese coastguard vessels in disputed waters last week, but kept its captain in detention. The incident has sparked a diplomatic row between the Asian powers, with China calling off planned talks over contested oil and gas fields in the East China Sea and summoning Tokyo's ambassador four times to prot ... more |
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Airbus eyes 150-jet China contract: reportParis (AFP) Sept 13, 2010 European jet maker Airbus is negotiating with China for the sale of 150 planes with a catalogue price of 16 billion dollars (12 billion euros), French business daily La Tribune reported on Monday. Citing anonymous sources, La Tribune said talks between Airbus and China were for 120 medium-haul A320s and 30 long-haul A330s and A350s. The deal is expected to be formally unveiled in November during a planned visit to France by Chinese President Hu Jintao, La Tribune said. The newspaper reported ... read more |
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