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Last updated: 09/17/10 at 02:31 AM
SOCHI, Russia, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft has asked the government to lower an export duty for its huge Vankor oil field, the company's new chief told reporters on Friday.
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TOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A joint venture of Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) and Tohoku Electric Power Co said on Friday it was shutting a 1,000 megawatt (MW) coal-fired generator at a plant in northern Japan between Sept. 19 and Feb. 1 for planned maintenance.
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SOCHI, Russia, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Boeing on Friday signed $3.7 billion contract to supply 50 Boeing 737 Next Generation planes to Russia, with Russian Technologies reserving the option to buy 35 more planes in the future.
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MANILA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The trust fund of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) could sell its 8.7 percent stake in infrastructure firm Metro Pacific Investments Corp to raise around $140 million, IFR reported on Friday.
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The French parliament passed a law prohibiting wearing a full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned by senior judges.
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Sydney missed out on a tourism and conventions bonanza by failing to build on its successful 2000 Olympics, a senior official said Wednesday, tempering lavish 10-year anniversary celebrations.
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Sept 15 (Reuters) - Taiwan's China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB) has sued Morgan Stanley in a U.S. court to recover millions of dollars in losses it suffered from its investment in a residential mortgage product.
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(For more stories on the Japanese economy, click [ID:nECONJP ])
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* Genome sequence to improve cocoa-growing process
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MySpace has begun letting users synchronize updates with Facebook, the social networking superstar that supplanted the firm that once ruled in that arena.
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Japan's industrial output rose 0.3 percent in July from the previous month, official data showed Tuesday, better than market expectations of a 0.3 percent fall.
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Roadside bombs killed seven American troops on Monday _ including five in a single blast in Kandahar _ raising to more than a dozen the number who have died in the last three days.
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Dutch airport police have confirmed that two men have been arrested in Amsterdam after their arrival from Chicago, as American media said the men had been charged with "preparation of a terrorist attack."
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HONG KONG/MOSCOW, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Russia's United Company RUSAL , the world's top aluminium producer, said on Tuesday it returned to the black in the second quarter, thanks to higher output and better prices of the lightweight metal.
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President Hamid Karzai's government swung behind the embattled US commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday, warning that his sacking "would not be helpful" at a critical juncture in a nine-year war.
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The chief minister of New Delhi vowed on Wednesday that the city will be ready to host the Commonwealth Games in October, despite growing concerns about severely delayed preparations.
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The Turkish police have detained 27 people as part of a probe into a deadly bombing of a bus in Istanbul, Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka on Wednesday strongly opposed as "unwarranted" the appointment of a United Nations panel to look into alleged human rights abuses committed during the final stages of the island nation's 25-year civil war.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French president Nicolas Sarkozy will on Wednesday chair a government meeting to look into the failure of Les Bleus at the World Cup and will meet team captain Thierry Henry on Thursday.
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* China central bank signals further strength for yuan
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Britain's special envoy to Afghanistan has taken extended leave, the government announced, amid reports that he clashed with NATO and US officials over strategy to tackle the Taliban insurgency.
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HANOI, June 22 (Reuters) - Companies from Japan, South Korea, Italy and the United States have bid to build the proposed 200,000-bpd Nghi Son refinery, which would be the largest refinery in Vietnam, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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