America's relations with Japan are in a jumble on a number of fronts. The real problem, which nobody wants to address openly, is that 65 years after the end of World War II the United States still has some 50,000 troops in Japan.

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Asian stock markets pushed higher Wednesday after the U.S. central bank again pledged to hold interest rates low and gave a mildly optimistic assessment of the world's largest economy.

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The General Federation of Women's Clubs is an international women's organization dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of others through volunteer service.

The Federal Communications Commission today unveiled a 10-year plan to extend broadband Internet access to nearly 100 million more consumers and make the web 25 times faster than it is today for most U.S. consumers.

An upcoming event aims to help people experience different cultures while helping a nation in need.

Ji-sung Park never felt like quitting Manchester United even in his despair at being completely overlooked for the 2008 Champions League final.

Asian stocks markets climbed to 8-week highs on Wednesday following gains on Wall Street overnight after the U.S. Federal Reserve maintained its rates at 0.25 percent Japan's Nikkei 225 average rose 0.7 percent to 10,795.78, an 8-week high.The broader Topix gained 0.6 percent to 943.37. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index was up 0.9 percent at ...

Forest was in fourth place after the first run but Swiss skier Nadja Baumgartner, who had a 1.54 second lead on the Canadian, fell midway down the foggy and rainy course in the second run and solidified Forest's second medal.

International Accounting Standards Board Chairman Sir David Tweedie told a group of European finance officials that the IASB and the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board are on track to converge their standards by June 2011, after which there will be a period of stability in accounting standards.

The US stock markets have recently notched over a dozen consecutive days of upward movement.

The Obama administration's row with Israel over settlements has prompted some analysts to wonder whether it seeks "regime change," a new government that can make peace with the Palestinians.

FOMC reaffirms promise to keep rates low for an 'extended period' while it waits for clear evidence of upturn in US economy The Fed said the pace of US economic recovery is likely to be moderate for a time.

Analogic Corporation , a leading provider of medical imaging and aviation security technology, announced today that the Flex Focus™ mobile ultrasound scanner, designed and manufactured by its BK Medical subsidiary, received an iF Product Design Gold Award for 2010.

On June 1, 1950, at the 59th Annual Convention in Boston, Sara A. Whitehurst, chair of the Council of International Clubs and past GFWC president , spoke eloquently of the need for international understanding and welcomed several international club representatives.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Shares in Korea Life Insurance Co ( 088350.KS ) jumped 11 percent in heavy trading on their debut on Wednesday, brightening the prospects for bigger rival Samsung Life's planned $4 billion IPO in May, the country's largest. Korea ...

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Korea Life Insurance Co. surged as much as 11 percent on its first day of trading in Seoul after pricing the nation?s biggest initial public offering in four years at 25 percent below the top of its planned price range. The ...

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Kim Choong-soo, picked by South Korea?s government yesterday to take the ... Kim, 63, was named by President Lee Myung Bak to succeed Governor Lee Seong Tae when his term ends March 31. Kim is Korea?s ambassador to the ...

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.3%, South Korea's Kospi dropped 0.1%, New Zealand's NZX 50 slid 0.7% and Taiwan's Taiex rose ... strong gains over the past few days, which were fueled by hopes of further BoJ policy easing and were prompted by mild ...

South Korea's Kospi Composite Index dropped 0.09%; the Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.53%; and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was down 0.28%, shortly before the European trading session. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index rose 0.27%, after minutes from ...

In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where does the Obama Administration choose to escalate a minor incident into a major diplomatic confrontation? With Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or Burma? No. With our treasured ally, Israel.

JON M. FLETCHER/The Times-Union With a new CD out, a tour planned in Panama and prospects to play at this year's Jacksonville Jazz Festival, percussionist Terry "Doc" Handy is becoming a rising star on the music scene.

The Vietnamese representative in the AFC Cup, Becamex Binh Duong, are aiming for their first win in group F as they take on Victory FC of Maldives at home today, March 16.

North Korea should let farms produce freely and allow food to be sold in local markets because the communist government cannot provide enough food for its people, a U.N. human rights investigator urged Monday.

China on Tuesday again turned a deaf ear to U.S. demands for a stronger yuan, saying the currency is not the cause of its trade surplus and pledging to keep the exchange rate stable to help its exporters.

Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors held back ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest assessment of the world's largest economy.

... laborers are working on football stadiums across the country ahead of this year's World Cup, a news agency said Tuesday. South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported Monday that some 1,000 construction workers from reclusive North Korea had ...

Seoul - South Korea's Suncheon Bay has been transformed into an ecological spot where farmers and migratory birds live together, sharing the benefits of the well-preserved wetland and reed beds. In this spot in the centre of the southern coast, a ...

GENEVA - North Korea should let farms produce freely and allow food to be sold in local markets because the communist government cannot provide enough food for its people, a U.N. human rights investigator urged Monday. Vitit Muntarbhorn said North ...

... which estimates the highly wired nation has about two million web addicts, will offer two types of software -- a consensual shutdown programme and one called Internet Fatigue . Consensual ... The Korea Computer Life Institute estimates a third ...

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has partnered with South Korea?s Woori Investment and Securities to explore possibilities on investing in local, Asian and Korean markets. The Memorandum of Understanding called for exploration of Shariah compliant ...

... Security Council to protect the people who are mistreated by their own government, a UN envoy said on Monday. Vitit Muntarbhorn, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), said his main achievement ...

North Korea has reportedly increased the deployment of counter-intelligence officials to China in light of the reclusive country?s mounting social tensions over its recent currency reform. Radio Free Asia says the number of North Korean counter ...

The new U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues has reaffirmed that the U.S. will not normalize relations with the North unless it improves the treatment of its people. Robert King was speaking at the State Department on Friday in his ...

North Korea has revised an investment law to lure South Korean and other investors back to a free-trade zone on its northeast border with China and Russia, a news report said Sunday. Yonhap news agency, quoting unnamed Seoul officials, said the ...

SEOUL, March 15 (Reuters) - South Korea's imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) jumped 21 percent year-on-year in February, customs data showed on Monday. South Korea, the world's second-largest LNG buyer after Japan, imported 3.4 million tonnes of ...

He is a hypocrite who only cares about himself,? one told Free North Korea Radio (FNKR). ?We would be better off without him.? Despite being vacuum-packed by the Kim dictatorship and sealed off behind a once-solid technological firewall, North ...

A fourth round of free trade negotiations between Australia and South Korea will start on Monday in Seoul. Negotiations with Australia's third largest export market began in May 2009. "There are hard negotiations ahead, but the progress so far has ...

Louisiana stands to be a primary beneficiary of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, but Congress must first approve the pact, a Consul General for Korea said Monday in New Orleans. "There is definitely big potential for your state," said Yun-soo Cho ...

... management of bluefin tuna resources including those in the Pacific Ocean in addition to opposing a ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna trade now under discussion at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Qatar.

Benton Harbor-based Whirlpool Corp. (NYSE: WHR) announced that it won a favorable jury verdict against LG Electronics in a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court in Wilmington, Del. The jury awarded Whirlpool monetary damages ...

Reports are starting to surface from South Korean government officials that the Android Market may be banned. The games in the Android Market have not yet received approval from the nation?s regulating body, the Games Ratings Board. This may cause ...

David Burnett / Newscom Acclaimed novelist Chang-rae Lee speaks to Jane Ciabattari about his powerful new novel that follows the Korean War?s impact on the lives of its characters. It's not everyday that a novelist announces his new book is grim ...

SEOUL, South Korea ? Henry Kissinger , the former United States secretary of state, was released from a hospital on Sunday after treatment for stomach pains, said a spokesman for Yonsei University?s Severance Hospital in Seoul. Mr. Kissinger, 86 ...

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was discharged from a hospital in Seoul on Sunday after being treated for a stomach virus. He is "in good spirits," said Dr. John Linton of Yonsei Severance Hospital. Kissinger was hospitalized Saturday ...