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Posted Monday, 05 January 2009Japan plans to re-import nuclear fuel from France Japan might start buying back reprocessed nuclear waste from France as early as April 2009, reports revealed last week. The plan reportedly has been initiated as the resource-poor country looks to start using the fuel [...] Posted Thursday, 18 December 2008 Sony to invest 30 mln Euro in Blu-ray in Salzburg Electronics giant Sony is to invest 30 million Euro in its Salzburg facility, according to Austrian media. Sony DADC board Chairman Dieter Daum told the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper the investment came on the back of [...] Posted Thursday, 18 December 2008 Louis Vuitton scraps plans for Tokyo store amid recession French fashion house LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton has abandoned its plans to open a flagship store in Tokyo’s ritzy Ginza district as the global financial crisis hits Japan’s booming luxury market, the company said. Declining [...] Posted Monday, 30 June 2008 Japan’s trade with the EU dips hard in May Japan’s trade surplus shrank 7.6 percent in May to 365.6 billion yen (33.85 billion Euro) from a year before, the Finance Ministry said. Japan’s exports grew 3.7 percent to 6.81 trillion yen, and imports increased [...] Posted Monday, 30 June 2008 Chiyoda wins deal for desulfurisation plant Chiyoda Corporation, one of Japan’s leading engineering and construction firm, announced that it has reached an agreement with Burmeister & Wain Energy A/S to license its CT-121 flue gas desulfurisation process technology(1) for use at [...] Posted Monday, 30 June 2008 Tokyo hopes to end territorial dispute with Moscow Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will try to resolve a key territorial dispute, the top government spokesman said July 3. Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said he hoped the next [...] Posted Monday, 23 June 2008 EU-Japan research scheme gets up and going A new era dawned in the field of research co-operation between the European Union and Japan last week as the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, officially launched the network of European Researchers [...] Posted Monday, 16 June 2008 Qimonda, Japan’s Elpida have become partners Qimonda AG, a subsidiary of Infineon Technologies AG, and Japan’s Elpida Memory Inc said they have signed the final contracts for their strategic partnership, under which they will jointly develop 40-nanometre memory chips, the companies said. Launches of 40-nanometre products [...] Posted Monday, 16 June 2008 Warsaw to boost ties with Japan On June 6, 2008, the Polish President Lech Kaczynski met with representatives of the Japanese Business Federation KEIDANREN. The talks primarily centred on the progress made in adjusting to the systems and in procedures that are in place [...] Posted Monday, 09 June 2008 Mitsubishi to increase production in Europe The Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi has announced its plans to expand production capacity in Portugal. The Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Europe assembling trucks at Tramagal (north of Lisbon), is negotiating to expand its Canter assembly operation, to [...] Posted Monday, 09 June 2008 The whaling season’s first catch heads for Japan Iceland and Norway have exported their first shipment of whale meat to Japan, officials said, on June 2. “This trade will be mutually beneficial for the three main whaling countries. It will serve to strengthen [...] |
EU-Russia energy game EU budget: Naming and Shaming of Member States allowing fraud A message for Turkey: tear down Cyprus’ wall now! India says global warming is not to blame for Himalayan glacier melt A misled Merkel takes a swipe at GM over its Opel U-turn Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transexual (LBGT) organisations across Europe cooperate under the umbrella of the International Lesbian and Gay Association This coming Thursday evening, November 19 during the “Last Supper,” the 27 heads of the EU Member States will decide The end of World War II found the United Kingdom winners, but literally bankrupt. The After months of networking, secret briefings, it seems that the candidates for the Council President In a meeting in Washington with the current Swedish Presidency of the European Union, US President Barack Obama said that As the United States and NATO have urged European countries to take a bigger role Europe must step up its efforts in Afghanistan if it wants to avoid straining relations Six months after they met in London and established a $1.1 trillion-dollar support package for As the first top British diplomat to visit Moscow in recent five years, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband wrapped up Despite French carmaker Renault’s earlier statement that it will not invest any more money in The United States and Russia on 9 November began another round of talks over nuclear Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the government will continue to adopt measures to better The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, and the EU’s Chamber of Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas Just as the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China passed |
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