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A cargo ship loaded with containers disembarks from the Tianjin Port in China, March 4, 2009. China says the decline in its exports accelerated in February as a slump in global demand worsened, adding to pressure on China to pump up its economy with a massive stimulu
(photo: AP / Andy Wong)
China's Exports Rise 46%
The New York Times
| BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month o...
Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant
(photo: AP Photo / Mark J. Terrill)
Lakers snap 3-game skid on Bryant's late jumper
Syracuse
| (AP) - LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant hit a 17-foot fallaway jumper with 1.9 seconds left, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter to snap their three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night. | Chris Bosh hit a 3-pointer with 9.5 seconds left...
Novel Idea for Japan: Airport for Budget Travel
The New York Times
| MITO, JAPAN — The diktat from the governor was the kind of sweeping order that gives Japanese bureaucrats heart attacks: plans for a three-story airport terminal, painstakingly laid over years, were to be scrapped and replaced with a single-f...
Lakers snap 3-game skid on Bryant's late jumper
Syracuse
| (AP) - LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant hit a 17-foot fallaway jumper with 1.9 seconds left, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter to snap their three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night. ...
Japan baby-robot teaches parenting skills
Breitbart
| An engineering student soothes Yotaro, a robot which emulates a real baby a... | An engineering student displays Yotaro, a baby robot, at a laboratory in Ts... | Engineering students at Japan's Tsukuba University have developed a robot t... | It gi...
Nakajima upbeat after F1 career stalls
The Guardian
TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan's Kazuki Nakajima has vowed to find a way back into Formula One after his final hope of securing a drive in the 2010 season was dashed. Serbian-backed Stefan GP were refused entry by the sport's governing FIA as a la...
Sony LCD TVs - Electronics
WN / Yolanda Leyba
Sony to start selling 3D TVs in Japan from June
Khaleej Times
TOKYO - Sony Corp said it will launch 3D televisions in Japan in June, entering an increasingly crowded field of competition for what many see as the next hot product in the electr...
Jumping dolphins at Loro parque, Teneriffe
GFDL / Berthold Werner
Fishing village featured in Oscar winner The Cove defends dolphin hunt
The Guardian
| Taiji mayor's office says dolphin hunt is part of a long cultural tradition | Fishing boats leave the Japanese village of Taiji which features in the Oscar winning film The Cove....
McDonalds
WN / Yolanda Leyba
McDonald's February Same-Store Sales up 4.8 Percent
ABC News
March 8, 2010 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp reported a 4.8 percent rise in February sales at established restaurants as strong overseas results offset softness in the Unit...
Japan's first film university to be launched next year+
Breitbart
KAWASAKI, Japan, March 10 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A vocational film school in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, is set to become Japan's first accredited university specializing in filmmaking from April next year, with the goal of becoming an academy of mot...
Delta Talking To Other Carriers About Alliances
CBS News
Delta Air Lines Seeking To Expand Global Alliances, Talking To Other Carriers | Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) ATLANTA (AP) - Delta Air Lines Inc., still smarting from its failed bid to lure Japan Airlines into a partnership, is talking to other c...
Japanese Film Festival continues
The Examiner
| The High Museum of Art is hosting a Japanese Film Festival.  The festival features 3 films recently released in Japan.  Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta, the films feature topics generally shown in Japanese film: ...
Japan News

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Papaya leaf extract used to treat certain cancers
The Examiner
| A brewed pot of papaya leaf extract tea may be just what the doctor may order AP Photo/US Consumer Product Safety Commission If you like this ... African American women twice as likely to die from breast cancer as white women U of M study finds freezing cancerous tumors kills them Bryant Gumbel recovering from lung cancer surgery Needle biopsy ju...
Asia News
A cargo ship loaded with containers disembarks from the Tianjin Port in China, March 4, 2009. China says the decline in its exports accelerated in February as a slump in global demand worsened, adding to pressure on China to pump up its economy with a massive stimulu
(photo: AP / Andy Wong)
China's Exports Rise 46%
The New York Times
| BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month of increases in Chinese exports and the fastest gro...



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