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Breaking News Thu, 17 May 2012
A Shell petrol station sign board was seen in Shah Alam, Malaysia. Shell, Partners Move Forward with Kitimat Export Facility
Shell, Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), Mitsubishi Corporation, and PetroChina Company Limited on Tuesday announced they are developing a proposed liquefied natural gas... (photo: WN / Priya Dashini) Rig Zone
Economy   Industry   Korea   Photos   Wikipedia: Royal Dutch Shell
Cranes at the Hanjin Shipping terminal at the Port of Long Beach Hanjin Losses Mount Despite Higher Volume
South Korean ocean carrier’s operating loss on containers widened from $27 million in the first quarter of 2011 Hanjin Shipping’s container shipping unit posted a... (photo: Creative Commons / Regular Daddy) Journal of Commerce
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Lufthansa cargo plane Lufthansa Cargo Traffic Slumps 10.5 Percent
Carrier continues to slash capacity as global demand softens, fuel prices soar Lufthansa Cargo carried 10.5 percent less freight in April than a year ago as it continued... (photo: Public Domain / Uwe W.) Journal of Commerce
Airlines   Business   Industry   Photos   Wikipedia: Lufthansa Cargo
ANA, JAL International Cargo Volumes Rise ANA, JAL International Cargo Volumes Rise
Japan Airlines' international cargo was off 40 percent for fiscal 2011 Japan’s All Nippon Airways Co. (ANA) said that its international cargo volume grew for... (photo: WN / RTayco) Journal of Commerce
Airlines   Cargo   Japan   Nippon   Photos   Wikipedia: Airway
Hiroshima aftermath. During World War II, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the United States military on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively, killing at least 120,000 people outright, and around Navy Commander Joseph Rochefort cracked the code to defeat Admiral Yamamoto
Those familiar with naval history during World War II easily recognize the name Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. In May 1942, following... (photo: USAF file) The Examiner
Japan   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Operation Vengeance   World War II
US Dollar - Currency Dollar Aims To Extend Gains As Stock Index Futures Signal Risk Aversion
Talking Points Dollar Poised to Extend Gains as Index Futures Signal Risk Aversion Euro Leads Majors Lower in the Wake of French, Greek Elections German Factory Orders,... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba) The Street
Currency   Eurozone   Photos   Traders   Wikipedia: United States dollar
Tomari Nuclear Power Plant (Tomari, Hokkaidō, Japan). Japan’s last nuclear reactor is turned off to cheers, worry
Kim Kyung-Hoon | REUTERS... (photo: Creative Commons / Mugu-shisai) The Columbus Dispatch
Energy   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Japanese nuclear disaster
China and the two Sudans China and the two Sudans
On this week's show we take a look at China in Africa and ask if there can be profit without the politics. The short story is one of a country big on investment but... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras) Al Jazeera
Africa   China   Photos   Politics   Sudan   Wikipedia: Sudan
Participants raise banners with a slogan, "Good bye, nuclear power station", at a rally protesting against the usage of nuclear energy in Tokyo Saturday, May 5, 2012. Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the last of this nation's 50 nuclear reactors switching off Saturday, shaking banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol. Japanese cheer as nuclear reactor shut for checkup
Tokyo -- Thousands of Japanese celebrated the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners shaped like giant fish that have... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye) San Francisco Chronicle
Energy   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC
Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 - invented the concept of a rising new bloc: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, later, South Africa). Some... (photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz) Al Jazeera
Brazil   Economist   History   Photos   Wikipedia: BRICS   World
KLdy1 - june06 - palm oil - oil palm - palm olein - cooking oil. (dy1) Palm oil may test support, rise
Malaysian palm oil futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives exchange ended sharply lower on Friday due to global economic jitters that could potentially hurt demand. Markets... (photo: WN / deniseyong) The Hindu
Economy   Malaysia   Oil   Palm   Photos   Wikipedia: Palm oil
MS Pride of America is a cruise ship partly built in the United States, now a member of the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) fleet. Cruise Volunteers Celebrate Successful First Season
Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 6:35 pm Press Release: Positively Wellington Cruise Volunteers Celebrate Successful First Season To help welcome a near 50 percent increase in... (photo: Creative Commons / Christopher Doyle) Scoop
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends a press conference after meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi, unseen, at her lakeside home in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, April 26, 2012. Suu Kyi said she is hopeful her party's dispute over the wording of Myanmar's legislative oath will be overcome soon. Myanmar's new battle
As the sun appears to be setting on more than half a century of military rule in Myanmar, a different battle looms on the horizon. Behind the lofty diplomatic exchanges... (photo: AP / Khin Maung Win) Al Jazeera
Asia   Military   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Burma
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FUTENMA, OKINAWA, Japan - Meals Ready-To-Eat are prepared to be transported to a KC-130J Super Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma March 13. The supplies will be delivered to mainland Japan to be used humanitarian assistance operations in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that struck northern Japan, March 11. The proximity of Marine aviation assets at MCAS Futenma has allowed Marines from III MEF to rapidly deploy critically-needed supplies and aid to support the relief effort. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Megan Angel/Released) US to remove 9,000 Marines from Okinawa
WASHINGTON — About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other locations in the... (photo: US Navy / Cpl. Megan Angel) Atlanta Journal
Japan   Okinawa   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011 by the Korea News Service, Kim Jong Un, right, late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's youngest known son and successor, visits Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, to pay respect to his father. North Korea: Kim Jong-un tours fish and meat shop
Looking like he's never seen a supermarket before, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is shown a new shop in Pyongyang. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9229772... (photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) The Daily Telegraph
Food   North Korea   Photos   Sanctions   Wikipedia: Kim Jong-un
US military planes , are seen at Manas US military base in Bishkek airport Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev last week announced the closure of the base, which is a crucial staging post for coalition operations in Afghanistan. The U.S. began using the Manas base in December 200 Map: US bases encircle Iran
US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the regional balance... (photo: AP / Igor Kovalenko) Al Jazeera
Iran   Iraq   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: Iran–United States relations after 1979
he Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to participate Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010 exercises. Without question: US military expansion in the Asia-Pacific
As Noam Chomsky wrote in this two-part essay, America's "pivot" toward the Asia-Pacific region is in response to what it calls "classic security dilemmas" posed by the... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shawn D. Torgerson) Al Jazeera
Asia Pacific   Defence   Photos   US   Wikipedia: RIMPAC
File - A man directs traffic at a vehicle radiation decontamination center at J-Village, a soccer training complex now serving as an operation base for those battling Japan's nuclear disaster at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Japan struggles with nuclear decontamination
Over a year after the nuclear accident triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami contaminated large swathes of land in northeastern Japan, the future of the largely... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) Al Jazeera
Japan   Nuclear   Photos   Pollution   Wikipedia: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
U.S. Navy and Coast Guard shipsare moored at the commercial pier in Puerto Princesa at the conclusion of the Philippine portion of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2008 exercise. Philippines says new China ship aggravates sea row
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines on Friday accused China of escalating the countries' 10-day standoff in the disputed South China Sea by sending a third patrol... (photo: US Navy / Cmdr. Daryl Borgquist) CNBC
Beijing   Manila   Photos   Scarborough
(Oct. 2, 2007) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Boutwells small boat meets with a Chinese Fisheries Law Enforcement Command (FLEC) cutter to assist in swapping out boarding team members on the Fishing Vessels Lu Rong Yu 1961 and Zhe Dai Yuan Yu 829 after being interdicted for use of illegal high seas drift net fishing equipment. A boarding team from the Boutwell boarded the two vessels on Sept. 24, after an HH-65 helicopter, from Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii, identified the two vessels as possible high-seas drift net fishing vessels. The Boutwell is currently deployed as a U.S. Coast Guard representative in the North Pacific Coast Guard Forum (NPCGF). This forum was developed to combat illegal fishing and increase international maritime safety and security on the Northern Pacific Ocean and its borders. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Jonathan R. Cilley) (169541) ( Boutwell tranfers custody of Fishing Vessels (FOR RELEASE) ) Chinese fishing boats back in Scarborough
MANILA (2nd Update) -- China sent anew three fishing vessels back to the Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) as it continues to reject the Philippines’ proposal to seek... (photo: US Coastguard / Petty Officer Jonathan R. Cilley)) Sun Star
Beijing   Manila   Photos   Scarborough   Wikipedia: Exclusive economic zone
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Motorcyclist was filling petrol into the tank of motorcycles in a gasoline station at Batam city, Indonesia. Oil down to near $94 on China, Europe concerns STL Today
In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, Sudanese workers inspect burnt out oil pipes at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan. Oil Wars on the Horizon CounterPunch
SHALE GAS HYDRAULIC FRACKING: Poisoned Water. Inducing Earthquakes SHALE GAS HYDRAULIC FRACKING: Poisoned Water. Inducing Earthquakes GlobalResearch
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a Russian naval vessel fires a shell during the China-Russia joint naval exercise in the Yellow Sea Thursday, April 26, 2012. China's Maritime Navy and Politics of Acknowledgement WorldNews.com
South East Asia
An employee counts Rupiah banknotes at a money changer in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 19, 2005. The Rupiah fell below the psychological treshold of IDR10,000, the lowest since March 2002, as dollar buying continued after Indonesia´s central ba Indonesia Dollar Sukuk Beating Rupiah Debt: Islamic Finance Jakarta Globe
The Chinese Navy destroyer Qingdao (DDG 113) transit through the Pearl Harbor channel while being escorted by a harbor patrol boat as it arrives for a routine port visit. China withdraws one of three ships, no end to standoff Taipei Times
Gasoline - Fuel Prices Oil below $102 amid US crude supply increase Kansas City Star
Gasoline - Petroleum Price Oil drops to near $102 ahead of Iran nuclear talks Springfield News-Sun
Australia & Oceania
A Libyan oil worker, works at a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega east of Libya, on Saturday Feb. 26, 2011. Production at Brega has dropped by almost 90 percent amid the country's crisis because many employees have fled and few ships are coming to offload the product. Saudi says $100 per barrel great price for oil The Guardian
Fuel for thought Fuel for thought Canberra Times
A Palestinian man exchanges currency, in the in city of Rafah the southern Gaza Strip, the U.S. dollar and shekel in black markets in the Gaza Strip on Sep. 20, 2011. Significant increase to the U.S. dollar $1000 against Israel 3.63. shekel in the Palestinian territories, the first time in five years, gets high for the dollar a due to protests in Israel, analysts said economy Palestinian. ( Photo by Ahmed Deeb/WN) Dollar drop just what the doc ordered Canberra Times
A lunch time visitor to the Australian Securities Exchange watches a board showing stock prices and a graph of the day's trade in Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Australia's share market plunged almost three percent in early trade on 16, with banking stocks hardest hit in response to losses posted overnight by Citigroup Inc. and fears the United States is slipping into recession. Markets Live: Downgrades weigh on shares Canberra Times
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In this image made Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 from China Central Television footage, North Korea's Kim Jong Il, attends a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, unseen, when they met in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province on Friday Aug. 27, 2010.
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Local health workers remove earth contaminated by lead from a family compound in the village of Dareta in Gusau, Nigeria Thursday, June 10, 2010. Foreign health workers and local volunteers are working to clean up villages affected by lead poisoning, after 160 people died and hundreds more fell sick.
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File - A Libyan protester shouts slogans against Libyan Leader Moammar Ghadafi during a demonstration before Friday prayers, in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday Feb. 25, 2011.
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