WASHINGTON, April 25 Kyodo - The International Monetary Fund on Saturday garnered widespread support to rebuild its functions to meet the needs of countries badly shaken by the most severe economic
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TOKYO, April 26 Kyodo - Japan remained on high alert Saturday for swine flu following reports of deadly outbreaks among people in Mexico, with the government tightening health checks of passengers
TOKYO, April 25 Kyodo - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has been granted preferential negotiating rights to buy Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. from troubled U.S.
WASHINGTON, April 25 Kyodo - Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrial powers agreed Friday that they will continue to take every step possible to restore growth and avert a recurrence of a
TOKYO, April 25 Kyodo - Shinsei Bank and Aozora Bank are in talks for a merger, eyeing the establishment of a joint holding company in summer 2010, a move that would create the sixth biggest bank i
BEIJING, April 25 Kyodo - North Korea, which said Saturday it has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, may be able to produce plutonium for about one and a half nuclear bombs in less than si
SAPPORO, April 25 Kyodo - A forum was set up Saturday in Sapporo to enhance solidarity among indigenous peoples around the world, with the ethnic Ainu people in Hokkaido, northern Japan, serving as
TOKYO, April 25 Kyodo - Japan will propose that countries share an oil supply-demand projection in an attempt to stabilize energy markets as major oil producers and consumers in Asia and the Middle
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Emerging countries need to be obliged to fulfill energy-efficiency targets
