Archive for August, 2008

Chinese authorities have told Japan that it is highly likely that meat dumplings linked to food poisoning incidents in China in June were contaminated with a toxic substance by insiders at the Chinese factory that made them, sources close to Japan-China relations said Sunday.



From this month, Starbucks Coffee Japan has introduced a new sandwich using Italian filone bread. Filone bread, using high quality wheat, is a crusty, chewy bread that contains lots of minerals and vitamin B1. The lineup includes beef pastrami, vegetable & chicken, and ham & maribo cheese.



Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — The following companies may have unusual price changes today in Asia trading , excluding Japan. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close, unless noted otherwise.



Instead of being apologetic, Japan is becoming more and more brazen. This worries me. It has to stop.



Fujio Samukawa, the consul general of Japan, on Sunday said that the Japanese government and investors were closely monitoring the situation in Singur.



TOKYO - Heavy rain flooded hundreds of homes in central Japan on Friday, leaving one elderly woman dead and prompting evacuation orders for more than half a million households, police and media said.



08 31st, 2008

On a South Korean coast guard patrol ship chugging towards desolate islands at the centre of a bitter territorial row with Japan, academics and officials vow to repel any Japanese claim to the lonely outcrops.



TOKYO - Chinese authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into Chinese-made dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan and touched off a food-safety scare, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday.



South Korea urged Japan on Sunday to scrap punitive tariffs on computer memory chips made by Hynix Semiconductor Inc., saying it is considering taking retaliatory measures.



South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor on Sunday urged Japan to immediately scrap punitive tariffs on its memory chips following a ruling by the World Trade Organization.