GENEVA - The World Trade Organization ruled partially in favor of Seoul on Friday in a sensitive dispute over Japan's punitive tariffs on South Korean computer chip exports. But the WTO panel refused to order Tokyo to scrap a 27.2 percent charge on imports of DRAM, or dynamic random access memory, chips made by South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Japan will, however, have to recalculate the duty.
Dent Fresh U.S.A. Inc. is recalling all of its DentFresh fluoride mint toothpaste, made in China, because the product may contain diethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze, which is toxic to the kidneys and liver.
Japanese prostitute's job application found in China (CRIENGLISH.com) Updated: 2007-07-14 10:59
日本人女性による売春宿への志願票が中国で発見される
An antique collector in northern China's Hebei Province says he's recently gained a piece of special collection of high value, a Japanese girl's application paper for becoming a prostitute, submitted in 1921.
By GWYNNE DYER LONDON ? The New York Times has been wrong on Iraq for so long that it has become a tradition, and they respect tradition at the Times. Its Monday (July 9) editorial calling for an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq caused a great stir in the United States: "It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit."
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Hon Hai <2317.TW>, Taiwan's top electronics parts maker, is likely to buy part of the stake Philips wants to sell in South Korea's LG.Philips LCD <034220.KS>, local newspapers reported on Saturday.
BEIJING -- China has suspended imports of from Tyson Foods Inc. and several other U.S. meat processors, in an apparent attempt to turn the tables on U.S. complaints about tainted products from China.
China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine late Friday said frozen poultry from Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat processor, was contaminated with salmonella.
(省略)タイソン・フーズからの冷凍鶏肉はサルモネラ菌に汚染されていると述べた。
Frozen chicken feet from Laurel, Miss.-based Sanderson Farms Inc. were tainted with residue of an anti-parasite drug, and frozen pork ribs from Wichita, Kan.-based Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. contained the leanness-enhancing feed additive ractopamine, the agency said. カーギルからの冷凍豚肉は身をひきしまらせる飼料添加物ラクトパマインに汚染されていたと 中国は述べた。
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- The yen posted its biggest weekly gain since March against the dollar and advanced versus the euro after Iran asked Japan's oil refiners to pay for Iranian crude oil in the Japanese currency instead of dollars.
National Iranian Oil Co. asked the refiners to use the yen exchange rate quoted at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. on the date cargoes are loaded, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg News. The letter was dated July 10 and signed by Ali A. Arshi, general manager for crude oil marketing and exports in Tehran. The change is effective ``immediately,'' the letter said.
A spokesman for Iran's oil ministry in Tehran said he could neither confirm nor deny that the letter had been sent. Most Japanese oil refiners have until now used U.S. dollars to pay Iran for oil, said the spokesman, who declined to be identified by name because of government policy.
China's Alibaba hires Rothschild over listing plan Last Updated: 1:59am BST 14/07/2007 中国のアリババはロスチャイルドを上場計画のアドバイザーに選んだ
China's biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba, has appointed NM Rothschild, the investment bank, to advise it on a stock market listing expected to raise at least $1bn (?492m), The Daily Telegraph has learned.
South Korea's Kospi dropped 1.1 percent. Kookmin Bank fell after it was downgraded at Citigroup Inc. Benchmarks fell across the region except Singapore, Thailand and India.
The wholesale price of pork in China surged 74.6 percent in June compared with the same month last year, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced on Monday.
6月の中国の豚肉卸売り価格は前年同月比で74.6%の上昇を見せたと中国農業省は月曜日 述べた。
The price hikes in feedstuff and the outbreaks of the blue ear disease are mainly blamed for the pork price surge.
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese customs banned Jarrow Formulas Inc.'s Whey protein supplements from sale in the country for failing to meet safety standards, 中国税関はサプリ・メーカー、ジャロウ社のタンパク質サプリを販売禁止にした。
The amount of selenium in Jarrow's Whey Protein Vanilla and Whey Protein Chocolate supplements exceeded Chinese health levels,
The famous White Rabbit creamy candy ? which was once given as a gift to former US President Richard Nixon ? and three other food products from China were found to contain the poisonous chemical substance formaldehyde, commercially known as formalin or formol.
The Bureau of Food and Drug (BFAD) came out with the findings, after inspecting for more than two weeks over 600 food products that the Philippines imported from China.
HSBC (0005) has expressed interest in taking control of controversy-laden Korea Exchange Bank from US private equity fund Lone Star in a deal that could cost at least US$5 billion (HK$39 billion), according to a media report.
HSBC has contacted Lone Star about a potential deal to take a controlling stake in South Korea's fourth-largest lender, London's Daily Telegraph reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - Democratic control of the US Congress and increasing wariness about the safety of food imports from China could finally lead to the implementation of a country-of-origin food labelling requirement in the US that has mostly been delayed since 2002.
The system that is so good at churning out Olympic medalists seems to be even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes. Last year, China's national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn't afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics.
オリンピックでメダルを獲得できる選手を次から次へと生み出す中国のシステムがもっと得意と するのは貧困に打ちひしがれた引退選手を生み出すことだ。昨年、中国の新華社通信は、毎年 競技から引退する6000人のプロのスポーツ選手の約半分は無職になるか学生として再出発 すると報道した。マラソン選手Ai Dongmei(26歳)はそうした一人だ。昨年、彼女は家族を養うた めにメダルを売る以外に選択肢がないと宣言した。アジア重量挙げで優勝したこともある Cai Li は医療費が支払えなくなり33歳の若さで肺炎で死んだ。7回、アクロバット運動の中国大会で 優勝し世界選手権でも優勝したLiu Feiは体操を教えて得る毎月20ドルのお金をやりくりして 暮らしている。
SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. private equity company Lone Star Funds isn't involved in any serious talks on the sale of its remaining majority stake in Korea Exchange Bank, its chairman said Wednesday, a day after a British newspaper said HSBC had contacted the group about buying the holding
The U.S. Congress has joined efforts to save a North Korean Christian who faces public execution because of his faith. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos wrote to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il care of North Korea's UN mission on Monday, calling on him to halt the execution of Son Jung-nam.
アメリカ下院はキリスト教信者であるために公開処刑にされようとしている北朝鮮人を助ける 運動に加わった。下院国際関係委員会のトム・ラントス議長は国連経由で金正日に書簡を送り、 Son Jung-namの処刑を中止するよう要請した。