Tag archive for ‘Japan’
A man stands guard at the Ratnagiri Gas and Power in Guhagar Village, about 600 km (373 miles) from [Mumbai] in this April 11, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Files
By Team Folks On Monday, April 1st, 2013
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Gail signs deal with Dominion for U.S. natural gas

A man stands guard at the Ratnagiri Gas and Power in Guhagar Village, about 600 km (373 miles) from [Mumbai] in this April 11, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Files NEW YORK | Mon Apr 1, 2013 10:08pm IST (Reuters) – More...

Chinese cars for exporting are parked at a port of Liangyungang, Jiangsu province, March 31, 2013.
By Team Folks On Monday, April 1st, 2013
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Chinese factories rise but U.S. manufacturing slows

Report by Steven C. Johnson and Koh Gui Qing | NEW YORK/BEIJING | Mon Apr 1, 2013 9:05pm IST: (Reuters) – Strong demand at home boosted activity at Chinese factories last month, but U.S. manufacturing More...

Thumbdrive design sketches are seen on a desk at the Trek office in Singapore
By Team Folks On Friday, December 21st, 2012
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Failure to launch: Singapore start-ups struggle to woo investors

Report by A. Ananthalakshmi, SINGAPORE | Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:11pm EST (Reuters) – Singapore’s decade-long push to become a hotbed for entrepreneurs is stuck at stage one. Thumbdrive design sketches More...

U.S. Marines work with instructors on a building-clearing drill as they train to be members of a Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) unit at a training ground in Chesapeake, Virginia, September 25, 2012. Marine Corps officials say the intense training done at this site is imperative to ensure the young Marines will be ready to respond to threats against U.S. facilities on a moment's notice. But, they say, looming budget cuts may threaten the pace and realism of the training. The men who serve in the Marine Corps Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Teams (FAST) sign up for an extra, fifth year of service to get a spot on the high-speed force, then spend nearly four weeks of 10-hour days training at this Cold War-era Navy listening station. Picture taken September 25, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
By Team Folks On Thursday, September 27th, 2012
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Training for the next Libya, Marine teams wary of budget cuts

(Reuters) – Shells fly and firing range instructors yell at the young Marines who are in their second day of security forces training at the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp that straddles the border between More...

Members of the media and TEPCO employees, wearing protective suits and masks, walk in front of the No. 4 reactor building at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture
By Team Folks On Thursday, July 5th, 2012
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Japan’s atomic disaster due to “collusion:” panel report

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from “collusion” among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an More...

Barclays chairman Marcus Agius listens as France's Prime Minister Francois Fillon delivers his keynote address at Guildhall in London
By Team Folks On Monday, July 2nd, 2012
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Barclays chairman quits over rate-fixing scandal

Report by Steve Slater and Sinead Cruise (Reuters) – Barclays Plc chairman Marcus Agius quit on Monday, saying “the buck stops with me” after an interest rate rigging scandal that has dealt “a More...

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By Team Folks On Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
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Tokyo decides to extend sanctions against North Korea for another year

Tokyo – The Japanese government decided Tuesday to extend its unilateral sanctions against North Korea for one more year following Pyongyang’s failure to make any progress to resolve various outstanding More...

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By Team Folks On Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
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US exempts 11 nations from imposing sanctions over Iran

Washington, USA – The United States has not included India and China in a list of 11 nations that would be spared financial sanctions as they have significantly cut purchases of crude oil from Tehran. The More...

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By Team Folks On Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
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OECD sees signs of improvement in UK economy

London, UNITED KINGDOM – Adding to the cautious optimism on growth prospects, the latest Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) monthly bulletin released on Monday perceives signs of More...

Shelter: Months after the earthquake struck, these survivors in Kamaishiare still reliant on shelter at a local school
By Team Folks On Saturday, March 10th, 2012
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Japan: Sharp rise in suicide rates

Shelter: Months after the earthquake struck, these survivors in Kamaishiare still reliant on shelter at a local school Tokyo, JAPAN – Economic hardship in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and More...