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  • US cool over North Korea's latest talks offer US cool over North Korea's latest talks offer

    WASHINGTON - The United States has said it wants "credible negotiations" with North Korea as Pyongyang in its latest offer has expressed desire to start "senior-level" talks with America on regional peace and easing tensions. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, are said to have discussed the issue by telephone Sunday evening. They agreed to close ...

  • Japan promotes eco-friendly transportation

    A safe and efficient transportation system is one of the highlights of Singapore's Changi Airport. Its credit goes to Japanese signal maker Kyosan, which introduced the signal system automated electric sky train. The electric sky trains, equipped with rubber tyres, are eco-friendly and help passengers move from one terminal to another. Kyosan has provided the technology for eco-friendly ...

  • Squeaky clean Tokyo favourite host for 2020 Olympics say IOC sources

    Tokyo is reportedly leading in the race for the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympics, according to members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Japanese capital's emphasis on safety and security appears to be influencing the race for the 2020 Games by pitting its squeaky clean image against the turmoil and instability being witnessed in Istanbul and Madrid, The Japan Times ...

  • Japan PM targets economic revival

    Titanic Belfast visitors' attraction and invited Stormont's First and Deputy First Ministers for a return visit."My administration's top priority is Japan's economic revitalisation," he said."Last week we announced Japan's revival strategy which laid out what I call comprehensive economic policies for economic revitalisation."He said his key words ...

  • Shinzo Abe asks Stormont to continuously support Japanese companies in Northern Ireland

    An online article ('Protestant-Catholic gap narrows as census results revealed', posted December 11, 2012) reported on the publication of data from the 2011 Census by the Northern Ireland Statistics Agency and stated that the percentage of Protestants and Catholics in the Northern Ireland population stood at 48% and 45% ...

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Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead

George A. Romero has given the British zombie parody Shaun of the Dead a ringing endorsement and even invited cowriter and star Simon Pegg to play a cameo role in his upcoming Land of the Dead (the third sequel to 1968's Night of the Living Dead). In a way, I' ... ...

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  • Talking Numbers Is Sony a Buy

    Third Point's Dan Loeb has upped his stake in Sony. Is the stock now a buy? Richard Ross, Auerbach, says the stock makes a compelling buy, and Steve Cortes, Veracruz, thinks there are problems for ...

  • Sonys product deluge at IFA

    Sony Tablet S and Sony Tablet P . Here, Kazuo Hirai, president of Sony's consumer products and services group, shows them off. The $499 Tablet P folds in two with a dual-screen clamshell design, and the $599 Tablet S has an asymmetric design to try to give it a natural upright ...

  • Japanese to mass-produce spider silk

    A JAPANESE company has developed a synthetic protein based on spider silk and plans to use it to mass-produce a highly resistant and flexible fibre in the near ...

  • G-8 leaders to end meet with declaration on combating terror

    Leaders of the Group of Eight nations were set to wrap up their two-day summit Tuesday by adopting a declaration to combat terrorism. The leaders were expected to address in the declaration the need for rules designed to prevent multilateral corporations from avoiding taxes, while hammering out G-8 responses to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. They were also expected to address concerns about ...

  • Japan Airlines SKY SUITE named Best Business Class Airline Seat

    JAL SKY SUITE was today named "Best Business Class Airline Seat" globally, based on the world's largest airline passenger satisfaction survey conducted by SKYTRAX. Japan Airlines (JAL) received the top honor for its new fully-flat Business Class seat at SKYTRAX's 2013 World Airline Awards held at Paris Air Show. JAL is the first Japanese airline to win the Best Business ...

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