UN chief urges Japan climate action Al Jazeera | The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has called on Japan to take a bold and active role in curbing climate change. | Meeting Taro Aso, the Japanese prime minister, in Tokyo Ban said world leaders must agree on a new treaty to curb pollution at a key climate change meeting in Copenhag...
Sony Struggling as Walkman Hits 30th Anniversary ABC News By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer | TOKYO July 1, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press | Sony Corp. employee lRumi Yamaguchi looks at Sony Walkmans including the first Walksman, top shelf,... Sony Corp. employee lRumi Yamaguchi looks at Sony Walkmans including the first Walksman, top shelf, second from ...
Japan Voa News | Pharmacist walks past package of anti-influenza virus medicine Tamiflu (File photo) | Japan and Hong Kong say they have each identified cases of the swine influenza A-H1N1 virus that are resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu. Denmark reported th...
Board Formally Appoints Yukiya Amano as IAEA Director General IAEA Appointment Goes to General Conference for Approval in September | Ambassador Yukiya Amano of Japan is congratulated following his appointment on 3 July 2009 as the next IAEA Director General. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA) | Ambassador Yukiya Amano of Japan...
Japan still a bridge too far on many fronts China Daily | The global economic landscape may see a milestone change this year, for China is widely regarded to replace Japan as the second largest economy in the next few months. But for that to happen China's economy has to grow by 6 to 8 percent, while Japa...
Now for the next forty years The Times | Moon, the creepy sci-fi flick opening in London this month charts the mental breakdown of a lonely American nuclear fuel miner stranded at a remote base on the dark side of the Moon. The plunder of lunar resources to reverse Earth's energy crisis m...
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Frog virus an increasing threat for ecosystems Daily Yomiuri | Fears are growing around the world over outbreaks of ranavirus infections, which are capable of killing various kinds of amphibian species, and the ecological effects such outbre...
Whaling peace talks 'to continue' BBC News | Peace talks on whales and whaling are to continue for a further year. | Delegates to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting here agreed it was worth extending ...
CT&T Announces Plans for U.S. Electric Vehicle Production The Examiner Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE | SEOUL, South Korea (Map) - Global Electric Vehicle and Battery Technology Leader CT&T United to Establish Multiple Facilities in Southeast and West Coast Regions to Manufacture Affordable...
Super-colony of ants rivals human society as population stretches around the globe The Daily Mail | Argentine ants from three huge colonies in Europe, America and Japan are actually part of one global super-colony, scientists have revealed. | The aggressive insects were first native to South America but humans have since spread them to the four c...
Sony Struggling as Walkman Hits 30th Anniversary ABC News By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer | TOKYO July 1, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press | Sony Corp. employee lRumi Yamaguchi looks at Sony Walkmans including the first Walksman, top shelf,... Sony Corp. employee lRumi Yamaguchi looks at Sony Walkmans inc...
Sony struggling as Walkman hits 30th anniversary The Salt Lake Tribune | By Yuri Kageyama | The Associated PressUpdated: 07/03/2009 05:07:10 PM MDT | Sony Corp.'s employee Rumi Yamaguchi smiles in front of a special display commemorating the Sony Walkman's 30th anniversary that opens Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at Sony Archive building in Tokyo, Japan. The first portable cassette-tape player Walkman, shown second fr...
China to use Harvard gene pigs for tranplant test China Daily | CHENGDU: A Chinese hospital in southwestern Sichuan Province will import four genetically-engineered pigs from Harvard University to carry out pig-to-monkey organ transplant experiments, a doctor said Friday. | Under the agreement signed by the Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital and Harvard University on Wednesday, the four pigs would arrive in...
