TOKYO, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Tuesday was presented with a video film made on the basis of Fukuda's interview to the Russian Itar-Tass news agency and Rossiya

BEIJING, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Tuesday has left for North Korea, with which his tour of five countries of Asia and the Middle East begins.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Prospects for the founding of a Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) will be taken into consideration in the designing of facilities for the 2012 summit of APEC

ALMATY, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - A Russo-Kazakhstani business forum opens in Astana on Tuesday.

HARBIN, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Improvement of the investment climate

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Colombo, June 17 (PTI) - Assuring that their demand for
Tamil Eelam is not against India's interest, L.T.T.E. has said

Moscow, June 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Kai Eide, UN secretary-general's

Tokyo, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura acclaims the active cooperation of the world's key news agencies in the work to highlight G-8 problems in view of the upcoming

Almaty, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan's first and only satellite
KazSat-1 will most likely be lost, the head of the national space agency, Talgat Musabayev, said.

Almaty, June 17 (Itar-Tass) --The equipment of Kazakhstan's second
communication satellite will change, the head of the national space
agency, Talgat Musabayev, said.