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Japan Records High Trade Deficits in 2012 Due to Fall in Exports to China

Japan’s economy had record high deficits during 2012 due to falling exports to Europe and China in a trade gap estimated at $78 billion.   Newly elected Liberal Democratic Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed an aggressive round of stimulus spending to stoke the fires of economic development in the world’s third largest economy. The […]

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Belgium to Phase Out Nuclear Power.

In an increasing trend ever since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Belgium will join the ranks of those abandoning the use of nuclear power in the future. While only possessing two nuclear plants at Doel in the north and Tihange in the south, Belgium’s steps forward to end the use of nuclear power represents both […]

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