| |   Japan to fund facelift for Patna, Bodh Gaya
| 28 Aug 2008, 0448 hrs IST,TNN PATNA: The urban infrastructure in two cities of Bihar, Patna and Bodh Gaya, are likely to get a major facelift. Courtesy, a $1 million ...
Man kept 51 snakes in Tokyo apartment
| TOKYO - A man has been arrested after keeping 51 deadly cobras and mamba snakes in his Tokyo apartment without permission. | The illicit collection was discovered when Nobukazu Kashiwagi called for an ambulan...
Brad Pitt, George Clooney light up Venice red carpet
| VENICE -- Hollywood megastars George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped kick off the 65th Venice film festival, taking to the red carpet along with their directors the Coen brothers in "Burn After Reading." | After...
Yakuza stalk Japanese markets as organised crime opens new front
| Japan's powerful yakuza organised crime syndicates are mounting a widespread assault on the country's financial markets that may have left hundreds of listed companies riddled with mob connections. | In a sur...
Afghan police find bullet-ridden body of abducted Japanese
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Thursday, August 28, 2008 | JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Police found the bullet-ridden body of a Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan Wednesday, a day after he was kidnapped, as scor...
Slaying shocks family, NGOs
| The slaying of a Japanese nongovernmental organization worker in eastern Afghanistan has shocked and stressed his family, while leaving Japanese authorities struggling to confirm details of the situation. | T...
IN THE NEWS / Singer's AIDS song a hit in Africa
| JOHANNESBURG--"African people are strong and lively. I feel the spreading AIDS tragedy that afflicts them as if it were my own," said Kohei Yamada, 28, whose song about AIDS is gaining popularity in Africa. |...
Ota expenses could cause Diet row / Scandal over failure to report office spending may prompt resignation calls
| Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota's failure to report his office expenses will likely be a source of confrontation in the upcoming extraordinary Diet session. | The government and rulin...
Lower house committee to seek doubling of autopsies
| The House of Representatives Judicial Affairs Committee will call for a doubling in the rate of autopsies performed for suspicious deaths over the next five years as part of reforms to the system of determini...
POLITICAL PULSE / Dovish Kono's ideas take wing / Hiroshima meeting of G-8 speakers gives Japan chance to tout peace
| In his role as a dovish icon of the Liberal Democratic Party, House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono feels a deep connection with an international conference to be held in Hiroshima on Tuesday. | The con...
Olympic experience enhanced by digital age
| The Beijing Olympics demonstrated that the growing popularity of digital terrestrial broadcasting and online video has brought us into an era in which broadcasting and telecommunications are becoming fused. |...
Health ministry to request 23 tril. yen for FY09
| The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will request 22.95 trillion yen for the general account of the fiscal 2009 budget--3.7 percent more than its original budget for the current fiscal year, the ministry an...
Charity proceeds misused in Itami
| OSAKA--A social welfare council of Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, diverted money from events it sponsored as part of a nationwide year-end charity campaign and used it for operational costs from fiscal 1984 to 2003...
Kotomitsuki felled by appendicitis
| Ozeki Kotomitsuki's participation in this month's sumo tour of Mongolia stopped before it began when he was whisked to a Seoul hospital en route to Ulan Bator suffering from acute appendicitis, sports dailies...
Omichi goes long Pinch-hit specialist's rare homer beats 'Stars
| Yomiuri's Noriyoshi Omichi doesn't have a quick bat or a speedy home run trot. | Neither mattered, however, after he popped an eighth-inning solo homer--the 13th pinch-hit longball of his career--as the Giant...
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The Times of India | 28 Aug 2008, 0448 hrs IST,TNN PATNA: The urban infrastructure in t... | Man kept 51 snakes in Tokyo apartment
NZ Herald | TOKYO - A man has been arrested after keeping 51 deadly cobras and mamba snakes in his Tokyo apartment witho... | Brad Pitt, George Clooney light up Venice red carpet
Inquirer | VENICE -- Hollywood megastars George Clooney and Brad Pitt helped kick off the 65th Venice film festival, ta... | Yakuza stalk Japanese markets as organised crime opens new front
The Times | Japan's powerful yakuza organised crime syndicates are mounting a widespread assault on the country's financ... | Afghan police find bullet-ridden body of abducted Japanese
Daily Star Lebanon | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Thursday, August 28, 2008 | JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Police found the bullet-... | Slaying shocks family, NGOs
Daily Yomiuri | The slaying of a Japanese nongovernmental organization worker in eastern Afghanistan has shocked and stresse... | IN THE NEWS / Singer's AIDS song a hit in Africa
Daily Yomiuri | JOHANNESBURG--"African people are strong and lively. I feel the spreading AIDS tragedy that afflicts them as... | Ota expenses could cause Diet row / Scandal over failure to report office spending may prompt resignation calls
Daily Yomiuri | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Seiichi Ota's failure to report his office expenses will likely... | Lower house committee to seek doubling of autopsies
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