Tokyo - Labour ministry officials from the Group of Eight (G8) nations on Tuesday agreed to address widening income disparities and the needs of the vulnerable workers amid globalization. Senior labour officials issued a statement at the end of a thr...
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was likely to replace more than half his ministers in a cabinet shake-up that the unpopular leader was set to carry out on Friday in a bid to boost his popularity and keep...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Expectations mounted on Thursday that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda would reshuffle his cabinet next week to try to boost the low popularity ratings that threaten his hold on power. Japan's Prime...
Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh meets bomb blast victims at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on July 28, 2008. The result will be a combination of slower annual growth, amounting to 7.6 percent in 2008, and accelerating...
GENEVA: The usual blame game continues over the collapse of the WTO mini-ministerial. The US is blaming India and China, particularly India, for adopting a rigid stance on special safeguard mechanisms (SSM) and the developing...