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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers said he expects to make a "stream of acquisitions" with a particular focus on video, as part of an effort to remake the company as a consumer electronics brand. "Video is the key ...

Experts have expressed doubt about the government¡¯s plan to run 5,000 t-class passenger ships along the Seoul-Incheon canal and a ferry terminal in Yongsan that are to be built, connecting Seoul to Chinese ports. A 5,000 t ferry is huge compared ...

ACCRA, Ghana, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Opposition candidate John Atta Mills has won a close presidential runoff election in Ghana, electoral officials said Saturday. The country's electoral commission stated that Atta Mills had posted a narrow win with 50.23 ...

Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied Monday in a display of might and loyalty that underscored the regime's guiding "military first" principal amid tensions with rival South Korea. The government mobilized 100,000 North Koreans for the annual ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il paid a new year's visit to soldiers from a leading tank unit in his first reported public appearance of 2009, state-run media reported Saturday. The dispatch did not specify the exact location of Kim's military visit ...

WASHINGTON: As the clock ticks down to Barack Obama’s inauguration, the US president-elect has kept silent on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its latest deadly turn in the Gaza Strip. Obama transition officials have ventured little ...

OBAMA. Obama arrives in Washington area. US-RICHARDSON. Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary. JAPAN-POLITICS. Japan's parliament convenes amid calls for snap elections. US-CONGRESS-STIMULUS. US stimulus unlikely before inauguration ...

After the success of recent Korean films like "Tazza," which centered around intricately executed money scams, there was little doubt that one about working the stock market would soon follow. "The Scam," the debut film from director Lee Ho-jae about ...

The Olympic Games of the XXIX Olympiad, to be held in Beijing, China this August, will mark the dawn of a new era for the sport of cycling, in addition to the close of another. Bicycling Motor Cross will join its fellow cycling disciplines - road ...

TOKYO - If you believe Japan will always be an unswerving "lap dog" of the United States, then 2009 may bring a rude awakening. This year could be the beginning of Tokyo's swift shift in its axis of cooperation toward other Asian nations. Early signs ...