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- Business Supermarket operator Seiyu starts selling Dell PCs
- Technology Sumitomo Chemical to market large organic EL panels in 2009
- Business JVC, Kenwood to merge on Oct1
- Business Nissan ties up with U.S. firm to boost business in India
- Politics G-8 labor officials gather in Japan to seek environment-friendly working s
- World Boat carrying aid for Myanmar cyclone victims sinks as death toll jumps to 28
- World Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles to keep campai
- World 21 dead as tornadoes hit Missouri, Oklahoma, Georgia
- National Kanemi poisoning incident victims to file damages suit
- World Nepalese police detain 572 protesting Tibetans
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- Chinese plane business gets wings
- U.S. hopes aid to Myanmar will build trust
- Sports Hoashi blanks Orix as Seibu wins 6th straight
- Sports S-Pulse sinks Antlers
- Sports Fukushima survives playoff to win Salonpas Cup
- Sports Deep Sky wins NHK Mile Cup
- Sports Fujita holds on to win Pine Valley Beijing Open
- China to challenge leading jumbo makers
- Sports Asashoryu falls, Hakuho wins on 1st day
- World More aid finally reaching Myanmar's cyclone victims
- World Cease-fire starts in Sadr City
- World 19 dead as tornadoes hit Missouri, Oklahoma
- Cricket: England 'can win Ashes'
- Judge row puts Pakistan coalition in danger
- Picture of the Day Black kite
- Beijing to unify toilet direction plates ahead of Olympics
- Fire engulfs east China factory, casualties unknown
- National Quakes rock Hokkaido, Miyazaki
- Politics Fukuda asked to boycott Olympic opening ceremony
- Sports Matsuzaka throws 7 solid innings for 6th win
- Burma's survivors 'facing crisis'
- Crime Kerosene-soaked man catches fire after trying to smoke at Nagoya police stati
- Commentary Charm offensive marks Hu's Japan trip
- New smoking ban cuts Beijing's fire alarms
- Massive rally in Amsterdam in support of Olympics
- Chinese vice premier, Venezuelan president meet on bilateral ties
- China's smartphone market booms in Q1, sales up 4.8%
- Have Your Say Foreign women in Japan sometimes remark how hard it is to get a date
- China Red Cross Society moves to integrate philanthropy awareness into consumption
- Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes off Taiwan's east coast
- China detains six over fatal railway accident
- Senior official askes to better plan city construction
- Five missing after ship sinks off east China
- China launches project to help children of migrant workers
- China Eastern flight reports fire alarm, 2 passengers injured
- Chinese, Slovenian leaders pledge to promote bilateral cooperation
- FM: President's "warm spring" visit to Japan a complete success
- Japanese foundation resumes funding food for pandas in SW China
- China's top political advisor arrives in Slovenia for official visit
- Chinese president back home from Japan
- China's southern region provides $250,000 donation to cyclone-battered Myanmar
- Malaysia, China to exchange students for home-stay
- More China's relief supplies arrive Myanmar biggest city
- Chinese president wraps up "warm-spring" state visit to Japan
- 3 Chinese workers kidnapped in Nigeria released safely
- Chinese president meets Japanese local officials on relations
- China's Inner Mongolia undertakes most ambitious Great Wall survey, repair
- PBOC: Cutting inflation to remain top goal
- China jumbo passenger jet company to take off Sunday
- Shanghai has favorable condition to become global financial center
- Commentary Charm offensive mark Hu's Japan trip
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- Entertainment 'Homeless Chugakusei' to become TV drama
- Sports Chiba gets 1st win; Urawa still in charge
- World Myanmar holds referendum on draft constitution amid cyclone crisis
- Technology Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ starts system integration work
- Technology Pioneer to introduce new portable car navigation system
- World Obama overtakes Clinton in superdelegates
- World Iraq, government, al-Sadr movement strike deal
- Politics China's Hu concludes Japan visit, calling trip successful
- World Lebanese opposition ends west Beirut takeover
- Sports Sugiuchi mows down Nippon Ham in shutout
- World Memorabilia dealer says OJ Simpson confessed to him about killing ex-wife
- World Tsvangirai opts to face Mugabe in Zimbabwe runoff
- National Narita airport to send letters asking landowners to sell plots
- Poll Should Japanese language ability be a factor in determining the maximum length
- Sports Chiba score 1st win; Urawa still in charge
- National More than 20% of school library budget misappropriated
- Politics Fukuda to announce emissions cut target in June
- Business Japan to strengthen monitoring of speculative money on oil market
- World Jenna Bush's wedding is low-key affair at ranch
- Entertainment 'Homeless Chugakusei' to be TV drama
- World Hospital announces Taiwan's interior minister-designate dead
- Quote of the Day Fukuda, though he may be a nice man and even a superior human bein
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- Taiwan minister dies after heart stops on hike
- Cyclone overshadows Myanmar referendum
- Sports Igawa gets clobbered in season debut
- Sports Sugiuchi mows down Nippon Ham in shutout
- National Gov't picks Windsor Hotel Toya's Nakamura as chief G-8 summit chef
- Sports Liu off to winning start at Osaka Grand Prix
- World Myanmar junta distributes foreign aid -- with generals' names on it
- Sports Fukushima ahead at Salonpas Cup
- Sports Edmilson penalty lifts Reds past Frontale
- Crime Judge to consider motion to ax arrest warrant without Miura's presence
- Crime Autopsy shows slain Kyoto girl was hit repeatedly
- Politics China's Hu says Japan trip achieved results
- National H5N1 bird flu detected in another dead swan in Hokkaido
- World U.S. senators urge Bush to visit Tibet during Olympics
- Entertainment Documentary 'Yasukuni' screened at Osaka theater
- Crime Japan urged to abolish capital punishment
- Sports Dodger Saito receives Hope of Los Angeles Award from city's mayor
- Picture of the Day Hitomi Kuroki
- China to build Qinghai-Tibet electricity transmission line
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- Chinese president continues tour in western Japan
- China Development Bank offers $82 mln loan for Taihu water improvement
- Senior official underlines further fight against corruption, building clean Party
- Burma votes amid cyclone aid row
- US welcomes N Korea nuclear move
- Sacked railway official to face detainment
- Police checks making subways watertight
- China sees 30% drop in death penalty
- Hong Kong jeweler Tse Sui-luen gets 39 months in jail
- Official stands trial for corruption over China's worst bridge collapse
- Cases of hand-foot-mouth disease in Macao rise to 99
- China to beef up reserves for emergency relief
- Reception held in Hong Kong to mark Europe Day
- Greater controls set to protect economy
- Hainan Airlines to offer direct flights between Beijing, Berlin
- Three Gorges project reduces 200 mln tonnes of greenhouse gas emission
- Chinese vice premier pays homage to Simon Bolivar in Venezuela
- Chinese top political advisor visits Confucius institute in Hungary
- Chinese FM spokemsan: Austrian Chancellor pledges adherence to one China principle
- Senior Chinese leader meets former Hungarian prime minister
- Chinese president meets Japanese local officials, discuss relations, cooperation
- Chinese president bids farewell to Japanese Emperor Akihito
- China's top legislator visits SW province
- Seven killed in southern China landslide
- Senior Chinese official meets DPRK press delegation
- China doing utmost to rescue three workers kidnapped in Nigeria
- Chinese president meets leading members of Japanese lawmakers' Olympics-supporting bo
- China's Chalco to take stake in Saudi aluminum smelter venture
- China issues regulation to better manage disaster relief donation
- Cases of hand-foot-mouth disease in Macao rise to 99
- Expert: China's cotton prices to remain relatively high in 2008
- Belgian professor: Chinese gov't protects Tibetan culture
- China's political advisors call for digital drive in publishing
- At least six buried in southern China landslide
- Scaffold collapse kills three pedestrians in NE China
- China's hand-foot-mouth cases rise to 27,499
- Scenic China city plans reservoirs to control famous river
- Beijing subway to adopt security check on passengers from next month
- Akzo Nobel to take over chemical firms in Germany, China
- Hong Kong stocks close lower on mainland market fall
- China's car sales up nearly 18 pct in Jan.-April period
- Picture of the Day Women's boxing
- Lifestyle Gold coin collectors on the rise
- Commentary Japan's eco-products get a failing grade
- Sports Kyoei gym parts with Kameda brothers
- Entertainment Ebi-chan to appear in Subaru's new TV ad
- Sports Women's professional boxing makes debut in Japan
- Crime Police investigating acquaintance of slain 15-year-old girl
- Business Ajinomoto expects profit rise
- World Myanmar OKs some cyclone aid flights, but Americans still barred
- Quote of the Day Sometimes you think that you can't change Japan because it's this
- World Lebanon in turmoil as Hezbollah takes west Beirut
- Politics Gov't to study accepting more highly skilled personnel from abroad
- World Obama picks up 9 superdelegates
- Sports Murata, Bigbie lift Yokohama over Hanshin
- National Insecticide found mixed in canned coffee sold in Tokyo
- Commentary What happens when youre out of work?
- Crime Police suspect teen slain where her body found
- Business Yamaha wins copyright suit in China
- Technology Softbank to offer free calls between mobile, IP phones
- Crime Konica Minolta allegedly hides Y1.8 billion in income over 2 yrs
- Business Industry ministry eyeing territorial tax system for Japan business
- Politics Japan denies report it asked S Korea to mediate abductee kin meeting
- Business Japan Airlines reduces losses in 4th quarter
- Burma warned over cyclone delays
- Japan backs space weapon reforms
- N Korea hands in nuclear records
- World U.N. halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies
- World U.S. military denies Iraq report of al-Qaida arrest
- Burma impounds UN aid deliveries
- Business Mazda unveils all-new Biante minivan
- Politics Hu visits Yokohama; calls on Japanese, Chinese youths to study history
- Sports Matsui runs hitting streak to career-high 17 games
- World U.N. says Myanmar's refusal to grant visas is unprecedented in modern relief
- Politics Diet to enact bill allowing use of space for defense purposes
- National Escalator at Nagoya subway suddenly stops, slightly injuring 11
- Export food identification system established in Fujian Province
- Myanmar blocks foreign aid workers
- North Korea faces famine, aid group warns
- Chinese gov't offers another 30 million yuan emergency aids to Myanmar
- Beijing Customs gives Olympic material rapid acceptance check
- Chinese students won International Architecture Student Design Competition
- Interview: China-EU trade talks promotes trust and concrete progress
- Burma cyclone raises rice prices
- Tibet tour ushers in golden period
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- Farmers, herdsmen beneficiaries of Tibetan development
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- Crime U.S. Marine sentenced to 2 years in prison for 'wrongful sexual contact'
- Expert: Rise of agricultural products price not to cause all-out inflation
- Cricket: NZ chief to quit next year
- Virus claims lives of 32 children in China
- Beijing to relocate 20,900 rural dwellers by 2012
- Fresh Chinese relief materials arrive at Myanmar biggest city
- Chinese president continues his visit to Japan
- EU launches anti-dumping probe against Chinese wire rod
- Guilty verdict for Marine in Japan
- Monument for Korean kamikaze draws ire
- Interview: greener, easier investment to help China-EU trade balance
- Interview: cooperation prevails in China-EU trade relations
- Interview: China-EU trade expansion leads to reciprocity
- Interview: China-EU trade talks promotes trust and concrete progress
- Burma 'wants aid not foreigners'
- Crime 16-yr-old boy held for allegedly beating grandfather to death in Kagawa
- U.S. offers assistance in tackling HFMD outbreak in China
- Crime 16-yr-old boy held for allegedly beating grandfather to death in Kagawa
- Entertainment Norika Fujiwara meets empress at Red Cross meeting
- China's producer price index up 8.1% in April
- Examiners in spotlight over bribes in China
- National Japan to give additional $10 million aid to cyclone-hit Myanmar
- World Myanmar allows some cyclone relief, but says no to U.S. help
- Entertainment Norika Fujiwara meets empress at Red Cross meeting
- Beijing residential land prices up 22% in Q1
- Auto imports soar in 1st quarter
- China issues draft implementation regulations for labor contract law to solicit publi
- Senior Chinese official urges theoreticians, journalists and teachers to be innovatio
- China's procuratorate to put rural officials under corruption spotlight
- Google in new tie-up
- New Products Exit USB hub
- Technology PRADA to release handset in Japan
- Google in new tie-up
- Worry creases in textile industry
- Chinese medicine for US flu
- China Mobile hangs up on MTN
- Firm will grow rice in Africa
- Death toll from China viral outbreak rises to 32, 24,934 infected
- China to allocate 26 bln yuan this year to reduce unemployment
- Death sentence for corrupt former senior Chinese provincial legislator
- Traffic accident in southwest China injures 15
- China's hand-foot-mouth infections rise to 22,240
- China has nearly three million officials from ethnic minorities
- Media, citizens laud Anhui doctor's work in viral epidemic
- Devastated store where five shopgirls died reopens in Lhasa
- Chinese president meets former Japanese PMs, attends youth exchange year inauguration
- Hainan Airlines launches fastest air route to United States
- Chinese FM discusses ties, major issues over phone with U.S. secretary of state
- China's top political advisor discusses bilateral cooperation with Hungarian parliame
- Pakistan to provide new routes for Beijing Olympic extra-flights
- China regulation on speculative capital faces test amid inflow surge
- China's hand-foot-mouth cases rise to 21,502
- Chinese president meets former Japanese prime ministers on relations