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Kyodo News, Published on 25/05/2015
» Japan's trade balance returned to the red in April following a surplus in March, but the deficit shrank 93.5% from a year earlier as declining crude oil prices pushed down imports, the government said Monday.
Kyodo News, Published on 25/05/2015
» Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak met in Tokyo on Monday where Mr Abe pitched Japan's shinkansen bullet-train technology for a high-speed rail project linking Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Kyodo News, Published on 08/04/2015
» Japan's current account balance posted its biggest surplus in more than three years in February, as the sharp depreciation of the yen boosted income from abroad while a downturn in global crude oil prices pushed down imports, the government said Wednesday.
Kyodo News, Published on 29/03/2015
» Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has brought back business commitments worth a total of US$74.34 billion in various planned projects and investments from his weeklong state visits to Japan and China through Saturday, a senior government official said.
Published on 05/03/2015
» JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has completed land acquisition for the construction of a controversial thermal power plant project funded by Japan, Indonesian media reports said Thursday.
Kyodo News, Published on 03/03/2015
» The Philippines has suspended indefinitely all offshore oil and natural gas drilling activities at the Reed Bank off Palawan island in the South China Sea, London-listed Forum Energy Plc said in a statement.
Kyodo News, Published on 12/02/2015
» Japan's wholesale prices dropped 2.4% in January from a year earlier, excluding the impact of last April's consumption tax hike, in the fastest fall in four years, affected by plunging crude oil prices, the Bank of Japan said Thursday.
Kyodo News, Published on 14/12/2014
» The Liberal Democratic Party will likely secure a majority in Sunday's lower house election as voters gave Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a fresh mandate to forge ahead with economic and more contentious energy and security policies, according to Kyodo News exit polls and projections.
Kyodo News, Published on 14/12/2014
» Voting began Sunday for Japan's lower house election, touted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a referendum on his "Abennomics" economic policies and his steering of the government since his return to power in 2012.
Kyodo News, Published on 17/10/2014
» A planned hydropower northeastern Cambodian is drawing the ire of Southeast Asian environmental group who says the Lower Sesan 2 Dam fails to meet standards and will impact 80,000 people.