Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
The U.S. dollar traded at the lower 99 yen level early Monday in Tokyo.
At 9 a.m., the dollar traded at 99.35-40 yen, against 99.21-31 yen in New York and 99.99-100.02 yen in Tokyo at 5 p.m. Friday.
The euro was quoted ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Tokyo stocks opened sharply lower Monday.
In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 138.60 points, or 1.08 percent, from Friday to 12,681.87.
The broader Topix index of all First Section iss ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Iraqi Olympic Committee said Monday that its assistant secretary-general died of wounds sustained from gunmen attack last week.
"Dr. Ra'ad Jaber died of wounds in a Baghdad hospital on Sunday after being attacked by gunmen in th ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
U.S. chief negotiator for six-party talks on the nuclear issues on the Korean Peninsula will visit Seoul from Tuesday to Thursday to seek resumption of the nuclear negotiation, said the South Korean Foreign Ministry on Monday.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Leaders of from the six Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries attended here Monday a ceremony for the completion of Route 3 along the GMS North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), which will create more business opportunities and provide peo ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
About 10,000 Afghan refugees have returned home with the support of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) since resuming voluntary repatriation over the past one month, the body's country representative Salvatore Lombardo said Monday.
"Abou ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Leaders from the six Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) nations agreed Monday to endorse the Vientiane Plan of Action for GMS Development for 2008-2012 (Annex), which highlights the importance of making substantial and early progress on transp ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Six soldiers and three civilians were injured after insurgents detonated a bomb in Thailand's southern province of Pattani on Monday.
The bomb attack happened in Yarang district shortly after a villager was shot and injured by a pi ...
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