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Munjals to buy Honda stake in JV
(photo: WN / Geeta)
Munjals to buy Honda stake in JV
The Times Of India
NEW DELHI: A series of offmarket transactions will see Japanese auto major Honda exit its 25-year-old joint venture with the Munjals in Hero Honda with the entire deal likely to be wrapped up in the next six months. The deal, which will be executed in two phases, will see the Munjal family - led by ...
Kim Clijsters, of Belgium
(photo: AP / Kathy Willens)
It's Nishikori's day at New York; Clijsters through
The Hindu
| Gasquet thrashes Davydenko in straight sets; Sania's campaign ends in doubles too | NEW YORK: Kim Clijsters erased an early first-set deficit and put her hopes of defending her U.S. Open title back on track with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Petra Kvitova on Friday that secured the Belgian a spot in the fou...
Briefing.com: Hourly In Play (R) - 00:00 ET
Insurance Newsnet
| Sep 04, 2010 (Briefing.com via COMTEX) -- Hourly In Play (R) | Updated: 04-Sep-10 00:00 ET | 17:02 | Reminder: Equity and bond markets are closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day | 16:51 | OC Owens Corning increasing production of continuous fi...
11 nations seek new world biodiversity policy
Zeenews
New Delhi: Expressing concern that the world's biodiversity target for 2010 has not been met fully, ministers and senior representatives from 11 nations on Saturday sought a new policy to protect the fragile ecosystem. | The appeal, which is directed...
The Pacific Campaign, Dam Division
The New York Times
| ON Sept. 1, 1945 — 65 years ago this week — I arrived in Leyte Gulf, the Philippines, aboard a Navy transport ship. Along with other newly commissioned ensigns in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps, I was prepared to join one of the Seabee b...
Halford To Release Fourth Album
Undercover
| Halford, fronted by the metal god himself Rob Halford, have announced the release of a new album. | ‘Halford IV: Made Of Metal’ is a fourteen track album due to his stores on September 27 (or if you’re in Japan, October 13). | The leading sin...
An investor trades online at a private securities company Friday July 31, 2009 in Shanghai, China.
AP / Eugene Hoshiko
Asia stocks rise on slight improvement in US data
Herald Tribune
| TOKYO - Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global e...
Containers are handled at the container terminal of the harbour in Hamburg, northern Germany, in this Jan. 16, 2006 file picture. German exports increased by 9.3 percent in May 2007 compared with the same month last year, and the country's trade surplus increased more strongly than expected, according to data released Monday, July 9, 2007.
AP / Kai-Uwe Knoth, File
Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany's Export Boom
The New York Times
| FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial r...
FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius is on display at the automaker's showroom in Tokyo. Toyota said on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 it has received 77 complaints in Japan over brake problems with its popular hybrid.
AP / Koji Sasahara
Toyota Feels Exchange-Rate Pinch as Rivals Gain
The New York Times
| TOKYO — For all the turmoil over Toyota’s wave of recalls, the company, the world’s largest automaker, may face a bigger problem: the surging yen. | With the ye...
Dolphins caught, not killed in Japan cove
Gulf News
| Tokyo: Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea Shepherd said on Friday. A town official said none were...
World alerted as town's dolphin hunt gets under way
NZ Herald
By Yuri Kageyama 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Dolphins were herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea She...
Golf: Ex-lover likens Smail to adulterous Woods
NZ Herald
5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | A jilted Japanese lover of No 1 Kiwi golfer David Smail has compared him to serial adulterer Tiger Woods. | But unlike Elin Nordegren, who is in line to receive a US$100 million ($140 million) divorce ...
Films
The Director Festival, Smt. Prathibha Prahlad presenting the memento to the Director, Directorate of Film Festivals, Shri S.M. Khan, at the retrospective of legendary Japanese film maker, Akira Kurosawa to celebrate his birth centenary, at the two days festival, organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals in collaboration with Embassy of Japan and Japan Foundation, in New Delhi on October 03, 2009.
(photo: PIB of India / Photo Division Ministry of I & B Government of India.)
Akira Kurosawa Samurai film festival 2010 in San Francisco
The Examiner
| Celebrate Kurosawa's nearly half a century of big screen samurai action and drama. New People   Related articles Free English language classes in the San Francisco Bay Area Ethnic communities 101: Where can I find an Asian grocery store in San Francisco? "Hepatitis B Hero Mobile" hits the road to promote hepatitis B awareness among...
Technology
Passers-by look at stock indicator in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. Japan's key stock index shot up almost 10 percent Thursday, lifted by growing rate cut hopes and robust gains in markets across Asia. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index soared 817.86 points, or 9.96 percent, finishing at 9,029.76 in its third consecutive day of gai
(photo: AP / Katsumi Kasahara)
Nikkei edges up after 16-mth low, China PMI a boost
The Guardian
* China PMI data gives Nikkei a lift * Next target for Nikkei 8,697, 61.8 pct retracement * But investors eye U.S. data, worry about more dlr selling By Elaine Lies TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average edged up 0.5 percent on Wednesday, getting a bit of a boost from a rise in China's purchasing managers index, while technology shares cr...



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