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...expand overseas to maintain growth. There simply aren't enough Japanese to buy their products back home. With domestic car sales slowing, Honda, for instance, just opened a second plant in Thailand so Japan's second largest auto company can double its annual production capacity in the Southeast Asian nation to 240,000 cars. Japanese pharmaceutical firms have also bought up American and Indian rivals. Overall, in the first 10 months of this year, foreign acquisitions by Japanese firms soared nearly fourfold to around $67 billion, according to Recof Data Corp. If the shopping binge continues, Japan could...
...Lanka's bitter, 25-year-old civil war - Asia's longest-running conflict - has never been closer to a military solution. Since a cease-fire disintegrated in 2005, steady government advances first pushed out the L.T.T.E. from their positions in the island nation's east, then cut off most of the maritime smuggling networks supplying the insurgency in its northern stronghold. The L.T.T.E.'s de facto capital, Kilinochchi, is encircled by troops approaching on three fronts...
...Under your predecessor, New Zealand was widely seen as a solid global citizen with an independent foreign policy, but also perhaps as a nation content to play a very minor role in world affairs. Do you agree with that characterisation, and do you have a different vision for New Zealand's place in the world? I'm not sure I would totally agree with that. I think most New Zealanders would have seen Helen Clark's greatest strength, outside her ability to manage in our Mixed Member Proportional system, as being the role she played on the international stage...
...Heartland Heartache Michael Grunwald suggested five steps to "help get America back on track" [Nov. 17]. May I suggest a sixth: Democrats and Republicans must put an end to partisan politics and work together to heal our nation. Most Americans are tired of the self-serving games that strangle progress. Nancy Turner, Gardner, Massachusetts...
...France under a warrant claiming she was complicit in the downing of a plane that killed Rwanda's then President and two French pilots. The attack helped spark the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which some 800,000 people perished. Kagame denounced the arrest, calling it "total contempt" for his nation...