Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
South Korean President Lee Myung-bakon Wednesday stated that his government is willing to assist the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as long as the latter abandon its nuclear weapons program.
"If North Korea (DPRK) give ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
South Korea's economic growth is expected to drop under 5 percent in 2008 as high consumer prices weakens domestic demand, the Korea institute for Industrial Economy and Trade (KIET), a state-run think tank, said Tuesday.
The KIET s ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The dollar rose against most major currencies on Monday as reports showed economic weakness in Europe and Japan.
The latest euro zone provisional PMI indices for the manufacturing and services sectors both fell below 50 to reveal a ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Singapore, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on Monday welcomed Japan's ratification of the ASEAN-Japan economic agreement.
The Japanese Diet approved the ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Par ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Sunday that inter-Korean economic projects have been jeopardized due to the South Korean government's in cooperative policy, the official news agency KCNA reported.
The South Ko ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Travel agencies and mainland residents should not conduct economic, cultural or other exchanges on their visits to Taiwan, say the guideline of the Cross-Straits Tourism Association (CSTA).
The CSTA has published three guidelines for mai ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The impact of the rising global food and oil prices on the economies of Member States of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) are among the issues that will dominate the agenda of the mid-year Summit of ECOWAS heads of stat ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Vietnam attracted 31.6 billion U.S. dollars in foreign direct investment in the first half of the year, as against 20.3 billion dollars of the whole 2007, said a senior economic official Saturday.
The figure proved that foreign inve ...
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