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This is Leicester - Leicester - Leicestershire - UK, 25 minutes ago / A university is to host an event to promote trade and tourism between Japan and the United Kingdom.
PRWeb, 28 minutes ago / Startup’s leaders will speak at sessions on app porting and mobile “app-vertising;” company’s breakthrough ShopSavvy app a finalist at Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator event.
The Oregon Herald, 33 minutes ago / The Japan Coast Guard inspected a Japanese whaling ship Saturday with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month.
mySA - San Antonio TX, 1 hour 20 minutes ago / A U.N. body best known for protecting tigers and elephants will focus on the world's overfished oceans beginning this week with proposals to regulate the shark trade and ban the export of a tuna species prized by sushi lovers.
PR.com, 2 hours 15 minutes ago / Los Angeles, CA, March 13, 2010 --( PR.com )-- The Stand Up Paddleboard market in Japan is gaining popularity, and gaining it very quickly.
Kyodo News, 5 hours 37 minutes ago / While debt-ridden Willcom is quick to point out the unique benefits of PHS for hospitals, which often favor PHS's weaker electromagnetic waves over those of mobile phones, most telecommunications industry pundits believe that PHS is unlikely to survive the fierce competition in Japan's mobile communications service sector.
Legal Times, 6 hours 46 minutes ago / On March 4, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that they'd reached agreement on a modified version of a patent reform bill (S. 515) introduced into Congress last year.
Global Infomine, 7 hours 1 minute ago / Diamond demand is sliding in Japan with the January imports of polished diamonds falling to $50.3 million, 24 per cent down in value, the country's weakest January in at least four years.
AutoblogGreen, 7 hours 25 minutes ago / The new Honda CR-Z has only been on sale in Japan for two weeks, and already the automaker has received over 7,000 orders for the small hybrid.
Global Infomine, 8 hours 48 minutes ago / Most U.S. stocks fell, halting a global advance, and commodities retreated as a drop in American consumer confidence overshadowed an unexpected increase in retail sales.
ilictronix, 9 hours 26 minutes ago / Currently signed to Fatboy Slim's Southern Fried label, 20 year old Last Japan dropped his latest original offering "Jungle Warrior" back in December, and is currently hard at work on his debut album.
The Independent - London - UK, 9 hours 50 minutes ago / Two weeks' paternity leave may not seem like much, but for Hironobu Narisawa, the 44-year-old mayor of a Tokyo district, it is a leap into the future for Japanese society.
Kotaku, 9 hours 56 minutes ago / Black is back, as Japan went all in on PSP purchasing recently, giving the PlayStation family the win in the weekly hardware contest, nearly doubling sales of the Wii. PlayStation Portable sales saw a big jump in Japan this past week, according to Media Create's latest figures, a little surprising when a pair of Nintendo DS games show in first and third place on the software side of things.
James Wallace on Aerospace, 10 hours ago / Washington aerospace companies can learn about opportunities in Japan during a seminar scheduled for March 17 in Lynnwood.
Stars and Stripes - Washington DC, 10 hours 28 minutes ago / 8th Alva W. "Mike" Petty Memorial Meet, Mike Petty Stadium, Kubasaki High School, Camp Foster, Okinawa. 4th Kanto Plain Invitational Meet, Oi Pier Ground, Tokyo.
The Skeptical Speculator, 11 hours 30 minutes ago / There was good news from Japan on Friday with industrial production growth for January being revised higher.
Clean Technica, 12 hours 57 minutes ago / A new industry poll published in E&P , the world's leading publication for oil and gas professionals, reveals that worldwide concern about climate and economic risks from fossil fuels is very high.
KHL Group, 22 hours 7 minutes ago / Caterpillar is considering moving excavator production from Japan to the US.
ABC News, 19 minutes ago/ A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52 and underscoring the nation's relentless security threat.
The San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego CA, 26 minutes ago/ Thousands of red-shirted anti-government protesters converged on the Thai capital Saturday, giving the government an ultimatum to dissolve Parliament or face mass marches on key spots in the city.
The Scotsman - Edinburgh - Lothian - UK, 2 hours 55 minutes ago/ IT HAS been heralded from all quarters as potentially the most exciting season in Formula 1 history, and now it is time for the 2010 campaign to live up to its billing.
ABC News, 9 hours 57 minutes ago/ President Obama postponed a planned trip to Asia today in order to stay in Washington during what looks to be the final showdown on the passage of a health care reform bill.
Houston Chronicle - Houston TX, 3 hours 46 minutes ago/ A debt crisis in that sun-splashed Aegean country has lately threatened the stability of the European Union and its powerful currency, the euro.