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Report: NKorea fires 2 mid-range missiles (AP)

AP - A news report says North Korea has fired two mid-range missiles off it eastern coast.

North Korea fires short-range missiles: reports (Reuters)

Reuters - North Korea has test-fired two short-range missiles, Japan's Kyodo and Jiji news agencies said on Saturday, quoting South Korea's Yonhap, stoking regional tensions after its nuclear tests and threats to boost its nuclear arsenal in response to U.N. sanctions.

Taiwanese president in Nicaragua to boost ties
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou arrived in Nicaragua Friday for a two-day official visit, aiming to boost ties with one of the poorest nations in Central America. 'We want to express our desire here to pursue bilateral cooperation' with Managua, Ma said

Taiwanese president in Nicaragua to boost ties - Yahoo! News
AFP ? Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (L) and his Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-Jeou pose during a press ? 31 mins ago MANAGUA (AFP) ? Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou arrived in Nicaragua Friday for a two-day official visit aimed at boosting

World Briefing | Asia: Hong Kong: Would-be Killer Sentenced
A Chinese man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for a plot to harm a pro-democracy politician and a newspaper publisher.

Veteran journalist in Japan, U.S. & Australia Frank Devine dies at 77
Frank Devine, a journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent in London, New York and Tokyo and later served as editor of the New York Post, the Chicago Sun Times and the Australian, died Friday in Sydney after a long illness, the Foreign

Report: Chinese make offer for Opel
Despite an agreement signed with Magna International, General Motors is apparently considering a bid by China?s Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corporation (BAIC) for the Detroit automaker?s Opel unit. A source said that BAIC will make a binding

USITC Issues Affirmative Determination in Safeguard Investigation on Tyre Imports from China
the U.S. International Trade Commission issued an affirmative determination in its Section 421 safeguard investigation of certain tyres from the Chinese mainland. Two of the three Republicans who make up the six-member commission voted against proceeding

Cluster companies in China?s Zhejiang Province - Part I: Strength in numbers
To many of us, an industry cluster suggests the grouping of a few major firms in a region or country. But in China industry clusters operate on a far greater scale. In the first of three articles, Professor Jean-Pierre Jeannet explores the nature of

Wooing the Indian Malaysian vote
the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) burst into public consciousness through a mammoth street rally. Few doubt that Hindraf was pivotal in swinging Indian Malaysian votes away from the Barisan Nasional (BN) three months later in the March 2008 general

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