Chaitanya Kalbag, Reuters Tokyo, Dec. 28 Satellite and cable television is approaching the status of rice as staple in the Asian diet but some governments feel threatened by foreign encroachment on their airwaves. Viewers across Asia are tuning in to a cornucopia of information and entertainment. Millions of Asians now know American newsmen Ted Koppel…
Chaitanya Kalbag TOKYO, April 20 (Reuter) – “Blossoms in the air; unable to stay longer; and still escape time.” The haiku, or Japanese three-line verse, by the well-known poet Seishi Yamaguchi might have been written just for Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa as he strolled under the cherry blossoms on Wednesday in a landscaped Tokyo…
Chaitana Kalbag TOKYO, 17 Sept/ Reuter – Most Asian stock markets, casting around for fresh stimulus, weakened on Tuesday while the dollar declined in late regional trade against the mark. But Tokyo stocks, buoyed by hopes of easier credit, bucked the declining trend with the 225-share Nikkei average up 309.18 points or 1.34 per cent…
Chaitanya Kalbag TOKYO, Reuters – India intends to ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for more contingency funds, although foreign reserves are at a very comfortable level, Finance Minister Manmohan Singh said. Singh, who has spearheaded a series of sweeping reforms that have turned India’s socialist economic policies on their head, was interviewed by Reuters…
Chaitanya Kalbag TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) – India’s new telecommunications policy will open the domestic market to foreign firms, end a century-old state monopoly and aim to provide 60 telephones for every 1,000 people by 2000, a minister said on Wednesday. India now has 9.64 telephones per 1,000, one of the lowest densities in the…