ECONOMY : Japan consumers asked to accept higher prices for Philippine bananas
Full of bananas: Tadeco Banana Plantation workers at the processing plant ready green bananas for export to countries like Japan,
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2020 TOKYO OLYMPIC: WHO head Tedros backs Tokyo Games amid pandemic
Tokyo 2020 Olympics Preview – Tokyo, Japan – July 20, 2021 General view of the Olympic Rings outside The National
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COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Asian countries offer more flu shots to head off Covid-19 complications
The World Health Organisation has urged global widespread flu vaccinations this year.PHOTO: REUTERS. . . . “The 2019 Plague” Day
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DEFENCE AND MILITARY: ASIA-PACIFIC- Japanese PM Shinzo Abe paves way for country to have first-strike capability
. PM Shinzo Abe has directed Japan’s National Security Council to look at ways to deter threats including ballistic missiles
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BIZ-TRADE: ASIA PACIFIC- Singapore, Japan to launch green lane for essential business and official travellers on Sept 18
Singapore has similar arrangements with other countries, but this is the first such framework that Japan will implement with another
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SCI-FY: Mysterious ‘UFO’ captures imaginations in Japan
This picture taken on June 17, 2020 shows an unidentified flying object above Aoba Ward in Sendai. – The unidentified
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Japan newborn gets liver stem cells in world first
Doctors in Japan have successfully transplanted liver cells derived from embryonic stem cells into a newborn baby, in a world
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COVID-19 PANDEMIC DAY 144: WORLD UPDATE: YANGON- Yangon announces night curfew
A dog rests on a deserted road in Yangon, where a 10pm to 4am curfew went into effect on Saturday
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EDITORIAL: SG-The Straits Times says: Prudent to postpone Olympic Games
The Straits Times says: Prudent to postpone Olympic Games . . After weeks of holding fast to the position that
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LIFE+STYLE FAMILY: TOKYO – Japanese confirmed as world’s oldest living man aged 112
Masazo Nonaka of Japan receives a certificate for the Guinness World Records’ oldest male person living title from Erika Ogawa,
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