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.
Washington - USB flash drives are hot - and the demand continues to grow. Consumers are snapping up flash drives at a rate of almost 40 million per quarter, according to Santa Clara Consulting Group, and manufacturers big and small - from specialist companies like Lexar to giant electronics behemoths like Toshiba - are getting in on the market.
Beirut - Two years after it decided to provide loans to those seeking plastic surgery, a Lebanese bank is expanding into loans for fertility treatment.
The loan program, a first anywhere, has attracted a fair amount of attention, even though the question of infertility has long been a social taboo in Lebanon and across the Middle East.
"We have received, since the billboards were hanged across Beirut in mid August, between 200-250 calls per day from interested customers," said Mahir Mezher, head of marketing and the campaign's creator at Lebanon's First National Bank (FNB).
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.
Washington - USB flash drives are hot - and the demand continues to grow. Consumers are snapping up flash drives at a rate of almost 40 million per quarter, according to Santa Clara Consulting Group, and manufacturers big and small - from specialist companies like Lexar to giant electronics behemoths like Toshiba - are getting in on the market.
