U.N. chief sees up to $40 billion per year to fight global food crisis
NEW YORK, July 18 Kyodo - U.N.
NEW YORK, July 18 Kyodo - U.N.
GENEVA, July 19 Kyodo - Japan will try to achieve the target of exempting at least 8 percent of all farm products from substantial tariff cuts at next week's key meeting of the Doha Round global tr
SINGAPORE, July 19 Kyodo - ASEAN foreign ministers will urge Myanmar to free all political detainees in a joint communique to be issued at their meeting here next week but they have again bowed to
BEIJING, July 19 Kyodo - The Chinese government is to issue a manual advising the public on how to survive a terrorist attack as part of the massive security operation ahead of the Beijing Olympics
TOKYO, July 19 Kyodo - The current price hikes facing the Japanese economy is not a temporary development, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said Friday, suggesting the central bank may rais
TOKYO, July 19 Kyodo - The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted three former top executives of the failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, who were indicted for window-dressing the bank's financial sta
TAIPEI, July 19 Kyodo - A ''second wave'' of Chinese tourists began arriving in Taiwan on Friday on nonstop charter flights, in a further sign of warming ties across the Taiwan Strait.
NAHA, Japan, July 19 Kyodo - The Okinawa prefectural assembly adopted a nonbinding resolution Friday against a Japan-U.S. plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station within
TOKYO, July 19 Kyodo - The central government and five local municipalities in Okinawa Prefecture agreed Friday to set up two task forces this month to promote the stalled project of relocating the
TOKYO, July 18 (Kyodo) - Former Asian Development Bank President Tadao Chino died Thursday of liver failure at a hospital in the city of Saitama, his family said. He was 74.