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Japan sinks Singapore at Sudirman Cup
Japan showed all-round strength by sweeping aside Singapore 5-0 in their group match at the Sudirman Cup here Monday. Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa made it 1-0 for Japan in the men's doubles by beating Chrisnanta Danny Bawa and Terry Zhao 21-7, 21-18. World No.24 Gu Juan of Singapore was beaten by No.10 Minatsu Mitani at 21-10, 21-19 in women's singles while in men's singles, Derek Wong ...
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North Korea defies UN warnings and fires sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan
Korea, Democratic People S Republic Of North Korea has fired another two short-range missile into the sea, defying warnings from the South and the United Nations.South Korea's military says the North has now fired six short-range guided missiles into the ocean off its east coast in three days.Pyongyang describes the launches as "military training", saying the real provocation is ...
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Japans economic drive needs structural reforms
structural reforms , voicing fear that recent growth could be just a "sugar high." Japan posted 0.9 per cent quarter-to-quarter growth in the three months through March, during which time Prime ...
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Sony Entertainment Network Offering Music Unlimited Service In Brazil
Sony Network Entertainment International announced that Music Unlimited, the company's cloud-based digital music subscription service, is now live in Brazil. According to a release, the Music Unlimited service offers on- demand access to a global catalog of over 20 million licensed tracks from all major and many leading independent labels across an array of devices including PlayStation3 ...
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Sony PlayStation 4 Developers Explore What Next Gen Gaming Will Deliver
With the world awaiting the Xbox Reveal at Microsoft's Bellevue headquarters on May 21, gamers are anticipating a fall launch for the two consoles that will define next generation gaming - Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft next Xbox, currently codenamed Durango. A couple of the top game developers for Sony's PS4 offer their thoughts on what gamers can expect from next gen ...
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William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet [DVD]
Baz Luhrmann's updated version of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet starts in high gear, pushes itself into overdrive, and eventually redlines and blows the engine long before its over. It's not that updating the Bard is a bad idea--it's been done successfully so many times before that it is literally de rigueur in the world of both theater and film, despite Luhrmann's claims tha ... ...
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Goldman Sachs to invest in Japans green energy sector
TOKYO--U.S. investment banking giant Goldman Sachs said Monday it will start investing in Japanese renewable energy projects, with a reported US$2.9 billion outlay over the next five ...
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Bulls Stampede Into Japan ETFs
In recent sessions, DXJ (WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity) continues to impress, reeling in more than $1.3 billion and nearing the $10 billion mark now in terms of net AUM ($9.8 billion). EWJ (iShares MSCI Japan) also pulled in nearly $600 million last week, as the hunger for exposure to Japanese equities continues unabated. There is certainly no shortage of coverage of the stampeding bull market ...
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Softbank planning 400 billion yen bond sale - Nikkei
Mon May 20, 2013 2:50pm EDT (Reuters) - Softbank Corp (9984.T) is seeking to raise about 400 billion yen ($3.90 billion) through a sale of retail bonds to finance its bid for No.3 U.S. mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N), the Nikkei reported. The proceeds from the offering, which is expected to be launched as early as next month, will also be used for redeeming existing bonds, the ...
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Sony offers firstglimpse of PlayStation 4 in teaser video
Sony released the first images of the PlayStation 4 today in a short teaser video. Sony has promised that it is going to give PlayStation fans a full picture of its upcoming next-generation gaming console, the PlayStation 4, at the company's E3 press briefing June 10. But not wanting to miss out on any of ...
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Ex-EA CEO John Riccitiello Warns Sony And Microsoft Not To Forget Gamers
jockey for attention in the upcoming console war, it's easy to see this is a two-horse race. There is a console market, there are two major players releasing next-gen consoles, and one of them will win. There is one point of view that wonders whether both consoles might fail, because the era of dedicated gaming systems is coming to a close. That point of view of talks about the quickly ...
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