Archive for April 14th, 2008
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Emerging and developing economies are maintaining robust growth despite a severe global financial turbulence but their resilience will be tested by the current crisis.
This was concluded at the spring meetings of the International M ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
The U.S. dollar traded in the lower 101 yen zone early Monday in Tokyo.
At 9 a.m., the dollar changed hands at 101.10-15 yen, against 100.95-101.05 yen in New York and 101.80-82 yen in Tokyo at 5 p.m. Friday.
The euro was qu ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Tokyo stocks opened sharply lower Monday.
In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average was down 389.73 points, or 2.93 percent, from Friday to 12,934.00.
The broader Topix index of all First Section ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed and two others were wounded in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, according to a statement issued by ISAF.
"The wounded soldiers we ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Israel has offered Islamic Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in Gaza, through Egypt, an offer to agree on a one-year truce in the Gaza Strip, the London-based Saudi Arabia daily al-Hayat reported on Monday.
The daily quoted well-inf ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday is heading to Jordan, Russia and the United States for talks on Israeli-Palestinian issue.
President Abbas will hold talks with Jordanian officials and then go to Russia before landing i ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
The U.S. military chief in Japan Monday urged the Japanese Diet to endorse a bilateral agreement on U.S. military facilities in Japan.
Lt. Gen. Edward Rice, commander of U.S. Forces in Japan, told the Japan National Press Club that ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Sudan will take a national census on April 22, first of its kind since 2005 peace agreement between the central government and southern Sudanese government, a presidential spokesman said on Monday.
"The census will start on April 22 ...
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