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Nov 7 2009
The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as his financial mentor on Wednesday...
Sep 22 2009
This was the terrifying moment a bear went on the rampage attacking nine people at a bus stop in Japan, leaving four seriously injured. The hour-long attack happened at a bus terminal in Takayama, Gifu - 220km west of Tokyo - on Saturday afternoon.
Sep 17 2009
In the country with the lowest birth rate in the world, the newly empowered Democratic Party of Japan has proposed a solution: pay to procreate. As part of the manifesto that helped the DPJ rout the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in last...
Oct 18 2008
At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open...
Mar 28 2008
- Japan said Friday its jobless rate rose for the first time in five months as core inflation hit the fastest pace in a decade, adding to concerns about the health of Asia’s largest economy. Companies are hiring fewer workers as they grapple with...