Phnom Penh  - State-owned Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp has formally committed to invest 4.5 million dollars in a joint venture in Cambodia with the Australian gold-exploration company So

Tokyo  - Japan might pull out its rescue team from China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province and send medical experts instead, media reports said Monday.

Tokyo - Oil and resource-relate

Cologne, Germany  - The ladies who meet regularly in a museum cafe in Cologne skip the gossip and get straight down to haiku, an ultra-brief poetry style that has spread from Japan around the globe