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Japan Myanmar start investment treaty talks
Japan: Japan said Monday it is in talks with Myanmar on an investment treaty, with Tokyo eyeing terms to help companies in the isolated nation as it embraces democratic reforms.A second round of the ...
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Eclipse ring of fire wows Asian US sky-gazers
The new moon crosses in front of the sun creating an annular eclipse over West Mitten, left, and East Mitten buttes, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Monument Valley, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julie ...
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Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B
In this Aug. 11, 2005, file photo, a man walks past a screen displaying the Yahoo and Ali Baba.com logos before a joint news conference by the companies at the China World hotel in Beijing. Yahoo ...
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Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC
A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to ...
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Govt capital spending remains slow
The government has spent just over 10 percent of the total 2012 capital spending budget in the first quarter of the year, Deputy Finance Minister Anny Ratnawati says.Anny said that the government ...
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The Lives of Others [DVD]
Taking place in the German Democratic Republic in 1984, not incidentally the year of George Orwell's magnum opus about the ...
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VGF regulation will only apply to 2013 projects
Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo says that the planned regulation on the viability gap fund (VGF) will only be imposed on projects that are included in the 2013 state budget."[The] VGF is a ...
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Small US firms eying Indonesia
Driven by the country's stellar economic performance and huge population, 17 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from a variety of sectors from the United States are on a two-day visit to ...
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Batam legislators summon Varta management
The Batam Legislative Council (DPRD) has summoned the management of PT Varta Micro Battery on Monday over the strike of hundreds of its workers. Legislator Riky Solihin said that the summons is ...
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Thai economy rebounds strongly from flood crisis
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's economy posted double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2012, rebounding from the fallout of last year's devastating floods, official data showed Monday. ...
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Rampaging boar in Malaysia sends cybercafe patrons helter-skelter
MUAR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A quick-thinking cybercafe patron managed to stop a wild boar from rampaging in the premises in a freak incident in Muar. The female wild boar crashed into a ...
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