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Lobbying may be the one remaining recession-proof industry, and as Washington prepares for a summer-long debate over how to reform health care, lobbyists for every conceivable interest group have camped out in congressional anterooms to press their case. There are advocates for doctors, insurance companies, patients, nurses, pharmaceutical companies, big business and small business. And for faith healers too
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In the Land of the Rising Sun, the fiscal year is setting in a sea of red. Electronics makers Hitachi and NEC Corp., and carmaker Nissan all ended the year with a loss
At last month’s glitzy Shanghai auto show, held in the only significant car market in the world that’s still growing, Nick Reilly, the president of GM Asia-Pacific, knew the question would come. Still, he winced a bit when a Chinese journalist asked him what would happen to Detroit’s fallen giant if it was forced by the U.S. government to declare bankruptcy
Japanese authorities will continue searching for a missing U.S. university professor on Wednesday, but they will reduce the size of search team, a police official said Tuesday
Unemployment in Japan rose to 4.8 percent in March, its highest level in four years and a nearly half-point rise from February, the government reported Friday. Household spending in the world’s second largest economy fell 0.4 percent in March, as the government predicted unemployment could rise to 5.2 percent in the next fiscal year.
Coercion and the use of force have been part of the American character since settlers started moving West at the end of the 18th Century.
Geek buzz flying around the Internet suggests that "Star Trek" could be one of the summer’s biggest movies. Director J.J. Abrams’ reinvention of the cult sci-fi franchise doesn’t open across the world until May 7 and 8, but early reviews after London’s Monday premiere are excellent.
Like drowning men grasping the only piece of buoyant driftwood in sight, top executives from the world’s beleaguered auto industry arrived in Shanghai this week for the city’s 2009 auto show, unveiling their newest brands in the only car market in the world that continues to grow. Some of the show’s stars are predictable, drawing crowds of reporters and photographers on Monday, media day: a stunning new Lexus convertible, the reborn Chevy Camaro from General Motors and the worldwide debut of Porsche’s new luxury sedan, the Panamera.
When union leader Francisco Freitas has something to say, Japan’s Brazilian community listens. The 49-year old director of the Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workers called up the Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo April 14, fuming over a form being passed out at employment offices in Hamamatsu City, southwest of Tokyo