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.
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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.
Instead of being apologetic, Japan is becoming more and more brazen. This worries me. It has to stop.
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.
Yuya Yagira, the youngest Cannes Film Festival best actor, was taken to a Tokyo hospital Friday due to a drug overdose, Kyodo News agency said Sunday. His condition was not life-threatening.
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. forces in Japan, as well as rescue teams from South Korea and Taiwan took part in a quake drill Sunday of the Tokyo metropolitan government, local officials said.
Three more Indonesians arrived Sunday in Japan as caregiver recruits following the first batch of 205 nursing and caregiver recruits earlier this month under a bilateral economic partnership agreement that took effect July 1. The 208 comprise all of this fiscal year’s recruits from Indonesia.
Japan’s Kei Nishikori defeated fourth seed David Ferrer 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5 in the third round of the U.S. Open on Saturday. The unseeded Nishikori advances to the fourth round where he will play Juan Martin Del Potro.
A children’s fantasy by Japanese animation guru Hayao Miyazaki was a welcome counterpoint on Sunday to a pair of grim psychological dramas for grown-ups at the Venice film festival.
George Town (Malaysia), Aug 31 (IANS) Former Indian president A.P.J Abdul Kalam has praised the conservation effort that has gone into preserving the multi-racial ‘living culture’ of George Town, Malakka and other cities in Malaysia.