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Containers are handled at the container terminal of the harbour in Hamburg, northern Germany, in this Jan. 16, 2006 file picture. German exports increased by 9.3 percent in May 2007 compared with the same month last year, and the country's trade surplus increased more strongly than expected, according to data released Monday, July 9, 2007.
Currency   Export   Germany   Photos   Wikipedia: Economy of Germany  
 The New York Times 
Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany's Export Boom
Fri 3 Sep 2010
| FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots are a common s... (photo: AP / Kai-Uwe Knoth, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius is on display at the automaker's showroom in Tokyo. Toyota said on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 it has received 77 complaints in Japan over brake problems with its popular hybrid.
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 The New York Times 
Toyota Feels Exchange-Rate Pinch as Rivals Gain
Fri 3 Sep 2010
| TOKYO — For all the turmoil over Toyota’s wave of recalls, the company, the world’s largest automaker, may face a bigger problem: the surging yen. | With the yen at 15-year highs a... (photo: AP / Koji Sasahara)
Newly appointed Director General of the ITER (originaly International Thermonuclear  Experimental Reactor) Organization, Japaneze Professor Osamu Motojima, poses for photographers, during a press conference, at CEA (Atomic Energy Authority) headquarters in Cadarache, near Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, southern France , Wednesday, July 28, 2010.  Gulf News  Fri 3 Sep 2010
Key to limitless energy
| It is one of mankind's most daring experiments — a quest to produce virtually limitless clean energy that, if successful, would revolutionise life on Earth by harnessing the explosive power of... (photo: AP / Claude Paris)
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Hitoya Yaguchi, who heads a support group for victims of poison gas produced by Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, shows photos of the latest poison gas victims in the northeastern Chinese city of Qiqihar after drums of mustard gas  dumped by Imperial Japanese soldiers decade ago were dug up last week, sickened at least 34 people, during a news conference in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003.  Asia Times  Fri 3 Sep 2010
Hiroshima's poisonous past
|      Sep 3, 2010 Hiroshima's poisonous past | By Peter J Brown | In late August, several historians and others from South Korea, China and Japan announced the joint publication o... (photo: AP / Katsumi Kasahara)
Japan   Photos   War Crimes   Weapons   Wikipedia: World War II  
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Red Panda CBC Thu 2 Sep 2010
Rare red pandas born in Winnipeg
There are only 8,000 surviving red pandas in the Himalayas of China and adjacent countries. (savetheredpanda.com) | Two rare baby red pandas, born at Winnipeg's Assiniboi... (photo: Creative Commons / Raul654)
Environment   Nature   Photos   Wikipedia: Red Panda   Wildlife  
Specialist of Bank of America Donald W. Himpele works his post on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange just before the closing bell Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 CNN Thu 2 Sep 2010
Stocks pause after a big rally
September 2, 2010: 9:54 AM ET | NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks held near the breakeven point at the start of trading on Thursday, following a major rally in the previo... (photo: AP / David Karp)
Nasdaq   Photos   Trading   WallStreet   Wikipedia: New York Stock Exchange  
A visitor points with am umbrella at a poster of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, painted by North Korean defector Sun Moo, at the Korea War Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. The Obama administration expanded sanctions against North Korea on Monday by freezing assets of individuals, companies and organizations allegedly linked to support for Pyongyang's nuclear program.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) Star Tribune Thu 2 Sep 2010
China calls for compromises to reboot North Korea nuclear talks
| BEIJING - China called Thursday for a compromise among the parties to talks aimed at disarming North Korea's nuclear program in order to get the negotiations back on tr... (photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon)
China   NKorea   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: North Korea and weapons of mass destruction  
Japanese Yen - Currency The Times Of India Thu 2 Sep 2010
Dollar, yen recover losses; ECB eyed
LONDON: The dollar and yen recovered losses on Thursday as risk-taking sentiment was tempered ahead of a European Central Bank policy meeting later in the day and key US ... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Assets   Currencies   Dollar   Photos   Wikipedia: Japanese yen  
Euro - Currency - Money Kansas City Star Thu 2 Sep 2010
Euro largely holds gains, buys $1.2788
More News | The euro is largely holding on to gains it made against the dollar after manufacturing reports from the U.S. and China helped calm fears of a slowing global r... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
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