Toyota Recalling Prius In Japan For Brakes WPXI TOKYO -- Toyota is recalling about 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking problems and will soon disclose its global plans for a fix as the automaker scrambles to repair damage to its reputation from a spate of safety problems. | Toyota's president Akio Toyoda will hold a news conference at ...
Toyota Recalling Prius In Japan For Brakes CBS News Toyota Recalling New Prius, Other Models In Japan For Braking Problems | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP) (AP) TOKYO (AP) - Toyota is recalling about 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking problems and will soon disclose its global plans for a fix as the automaker scrambles to repair dama...
China Open moves to Suzhou for 2010 with bigger prize The Guardian BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The 2010 China Open golf championship will be played in Suzhou in April with an increased prize fund of $2.5 million, organisers said on Tuesday. The 16th version of the tournament will be the richest event on the 10-stop O...
Report: NKorea's Kim reiterates disarmament pledge The Guardian | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Associated Press Writer= SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il assured a high-level envoy visiting from Beijing that Pyongyang is committed to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, China's state news agency reported...
Toyota Recalling Prius In Japan For Brakes WPXI TOKYO -- Toyota is recalling about 170,000 Prius hybrid cars in Japan for braking problems and will soon disclose its global plans for a fix as the automaker scrambles to repair damage to its reputation from a spate of safety problems. | Toyota's pre...
North Korea's Kim pledges to remove nuclear weapons The Star | SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's leader pledged again to remove nuclear weapons from the peninsula, a news report said on Tuesday, and also sent his top nuclear envoy to Beijing in a move that could bode well for stalled disarmament talks. | While K...
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Car wars Business Day Online How the mighty have fallen. For, history was created last year when for the first time, China sold more cars than America. | Industry data shows that in 2009, as against a figure o...
Beijing beefs up cyber-warfare capacity Asia Times | By Willy Lam | While the furor over cyber-attacks against Google has lapsed somewhat, the Sino-American confrontation over the larger issue of Internet security and global digita...
Hainan fears real-estate bubbles - again Asia Times | By Stephen Wong | SHANGHAI - Money has flooded into the tropical Chinese island province of Hainan for property speculation in the few weeks since the central government unveiled...
Japanese Split on Exposing Secret Pacts With U.S. The New York Times | TOKYO - They were Tokyo's worst-kept diplomatic secrets: clandestine cold war era agreements with Washington that obligated Japan to shoulder the costs of United States bases and allow nuclear-armed American ships to sail into Japanese ports. | For...
China issues national census of pollution sources China Daily | BEIJING: China on Tuesday issued its first national census of pollution sources, with datas showing that the country's wastewater discharge totalled more than 209 billion tonnes while waste gas emissions topped 63.7 trillion cubic meters in 2007. |...
China, Costa Rica hold 6th round of FTA talks China Daily | SAN JOSE: China and Costa Rica held their sixth round of talks on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) here on Monday. | During the three-day meeting, the two sides will mainly discuss issues such as market access, the rule of origin, and intellectual pr...
Car wars Business Day Online How the mighty have fallen. For, history was created last year when for the first time, China sold more cars than America. | Industry data shows that in 2009, as against a figure of 10.4 million vehicles (cars, trucks and other autos) sold in the USA, the market in China rose by 46 percent to a record high of 13.6 million vehicles. When you contras...
After Buying Spree, China Owns Stakes in Top U.S. Firms The New York Times | SHANGHAI - Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China's sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup. | Although most of the stakes were small, China Investment Corp., the government's $...
