South Korea, Japan optimistic despite tough draw
Reuters - Sat Dec 5, 2:12 am ETSouth Korea and Japan remain confident of reaching the knockout stages of the 2010 World Cup finals despite being handed tricky group stage draws.
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South Korea and Japan remain confident of reaching the knockout stages of the 2010 World Cup finals despite being handed tricky group stage draws.
Chad Hedrick edged U.S. teammate Shani Davis to win the men's 1,500 meters at a World Cup long-track speedskating event on Friday. Hedrick finished in 1 minute, 42.14 seconds with Davis was just 0.05 of a second behind. Denny Morrison of Canada took third in 1.42:74. "I'm going in the right direction," Hedrick said.
Nintendo's supersize handheld sells 100,000 in two days; Left 4 Dead, Taiko Drum Master best-selling new games on a mostly familiar top 10 list.
OPBF#1 Japanese welter champ Daisuke Nakagawa (15-2-1, 11 KOs), 146.75, kept his national belt when he accelerated his attack as the contest progressed and finally caught JBC#12 Kazukaze Yamakaze (9-5-1, 2 KOs), 147, to score a TKO win at 2:01 in the tenth and final round on Saturday in Tokyo, Japan.
The leader of Japan's tiny Social Democratic Party threatened on Thursday to leave the ruling coalition if her views on a U.S. military base were ignored, the latest sign of strains complicating policy decisions.
American Airlines countered a $1 billion offer of aid for Japan Airlines, escalating a tug-of-war with Delta Airlines and its partners over the Japanese airline.
Unbeaten world champs collide tomorrow (Sunday) in Osaka, Japan. WBA female minimum champ Etsuko Tada (6-0, 2 KOs), 103.75, Japan, will face WBC light-flyweight titlist Naomi Togashi (6-0, 4 KOs), 104.75, a hard-punching compatriot, with both belts on the line over ten two-minute rounds.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Japan will cut its real economic growth for the July-September quarter after a Finance Ministry report found extremely weak capital investment, Nikkei English News reported, without saying where it got the information.
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police have arrested four teens living on a U.S. military base for allegedly causing a road accident that injured a woman.
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Chevron Corp. signed an $82 billion contract, Australia’s biggest energy deal, to supply liquefied natural gas to Tokyo Electric Power Co.
The Asia Pacific region excluding Japan (APEJ) registered growth in the first half of 2009 for the information and data management software (IDMS) market.
Six months before the World Cup begins in South Africa, Spain already has its first win.
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National TV in parentheses Dec. 4 At Agde, France, Anselmo Moreno vs. Frederic Patrac, 12, for Moreno's WBA bantamweight title. At Santa Ynez, Calif. (SHO), Tyrone Brunson vs. Carson Jones, 10, junior middleweights. Dec. 5 At Ludwigsburg, Germany, Marco Huck vs. Ola Afolabi, 12, for Huck's WBO cruiserweight title. At Newcastle, England, Amir Khan vs. Dmitiry Salita, 12, for Khan's WBA junior ...
FIRST ROUND Friday, June 11 At Johannesburg, Soccer City South Africa vs. Mexico, 10 a.m. At Cape Town, South Africa Uruguay vs. France, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 12 At Port Elizabeth, South Africa South Korea vs. Greece, 7:30 a.m. At Johannesburg, Ellis Park Argentina vs. Nigeria, 10 a.m. At Rustenburg, South Africa England vs. United States, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 13 At Polokwane, South Africa ...
Not many military leaders understood the fighting man as well as British Gen. William Slim.