HCM City (VNA) - Hundreds of small and medium businesses in Vietnam have
reduced their energy costs by about 50 percent after implementing energy saving

TOKYO, Jan. 5 Kyodo - Labor and management began the year's business Monday with the former seeking
both employment stability and wage hikes, and the latter stressing the prospect

TOKYO, Jan. 5 Kyodo -
The Bank of Japan is close to a decision to downgrade the prospects for the

TOKYO, Jan. 5 Kyodo - Domestic sales of new vehicles, excluding minivehicles, fell to a 34-year low
of 3,212,342 units in 2008 -- nearly half of the peak level in 1990 -- as

Jakarta, Jan 5 (ANTARA) - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) said on Monday Indonesia recorded a deflation of 0.04 percent in December 2008, bringing the year-on-year inflation rate to 11.06 pe

Jakarta, Jan 5 (ANTARA) - Indonesia plans to allow imports of meat from Brazil in an effort to lower domestic meat prices, Agriculture Minister Anton Aprijantono said.

Jakarta, Jan 5 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono handed over the 2009 lists of procurement and development projects to heads of government institutions, ministers, provincial governors

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 (Bernama) -- While the stock markets will continue to
see volatility and a slowdown in economic growth in the first half of 2009,

SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Yonhap) -- The government said Monday it will nearly double the
size of existing exhibition centers in the country by 2012 to help build up the

(ATTN: UPDATES headline, lead and throughout with quotes, details; RESTORES some
previous material; ADDS closing stock price)