Hong Kong - A solar-powered lamp, which is as thin as a magazine cover and sticks onto most surfaces has been developed by a Hong Kong inventor, a media report said.
The lamp won designer Keikko Lee, 26, the gold price in South Korea's first international design competition held in October, the South China Morning Post said.
Lee said the lamp has electroluminescent material on one side and solar panels and sensors on the other.
Tokyo - Operating profits of Japan's second-largest carmaker Honda Motor Co are likely to drop sharply owing to the yen's strengthening against the dollar, a newspaper report said Saturday.
The Nikkei business newspaper reported that Honda's operating profits are expected to drop by about 40 per cent to between 550 and 580 billion yen (5.8 to 6.15 billion dollars).
At the beginning of the business year, which runs until March 31, 2009, Honda had projected operative profits of 650 billion yen, but revised it downwards in April to 630 billion yen.
Bangkok - A Mandalay court has sentenced six opposition leaders to prison terms of up to 13 years on charges of threatening national "tranquility" and stirring up hatred ,anti-government sources said Saturday.
The six senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) were arrested in September and October last year in a nationwide crackdown on dissent following the Buddhist-monk-led protests in Yangon.
An army crackdown on the demonstrations, dubbed the "saffron revolution," left more than 30 dead and scores missing.
Singapore - East Asia should be able to achieve an annual economic growth of 3 per cent to 5 per cent considering the current global financial crisis, Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said, in press reports Saturday.
Giving the assessment, Lee was upbeat about Asian economic growth supported by China and India.
"I would say the rest of Asia might make 3, 4, 5 per cent, which isn't bad for this condition," said Lee, the first prime minister and architect of modern Singapore.
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Hong Kong - A solar-powered lamp, which is as thin as a magazine cover and sticks onto most surfaces has been developed by a Hong Kong inventor, a media report said.
Tokyo - Operating profits of Japan's second-largest carmaker Honda Motor Co are likely to drop sharply owing to the yen's strengthening against the dollar, a newspaper report said Saturday.
Bangkok - A Mandalay court has sentenced six opposition leaders to prison terms of up to 13 years on charges of threatening national "tranquility" and stirring up hatred ,anti-government sources said Saturday.
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Singapore - East Asia should be able to achieve an annual economic growth of 3 per cent to 5 per cent considering the current global financial crisis, Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said, in press reports Saturday.
