Beirut - President Michel Suleiman did meet yesterday with president George W Bush at the white house in Washington , DC and as expected he pressed Lebanon's claim to territory occupied by Israel and told the U.S. President the future

Washington, DC- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saw that Lebanon was better off today than under the previous U.S. administrations.

Japan's top brokerage house Nomura Holdings Inc. will pay only two dollars to acquire failed U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers' operations in Europe and the Middle East, informed sources said Friday. The rock-bottom price came as the deal does not

Stocks drifted down on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, with investors unnerved by news about the collapse of the largest U.S. savings and loan institution and the continued wrangling over the U.S. financial sector rescue bill. The 225-issue Nikkei average

Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said Friday that illegal industrial waste dumping has been discovered at a western Japan plant of a fifty-fifty joint venture between the firm and machinery maker Kubota Corp. . Matsushita Electric Works reported the finding to

Japanese textile maker Toyota Boshoku Corp. and auto parts maker Aisin Seiki Co. will set up a joint venture to make automotive interior parts in Poland, the two companies said Friday. The new company, TBAI Poland Spz oo, will mainly

Sell Buy Net Net --- Foreigners 4,853,908 4,968,341 114,433 -324,222 Individuals 1,554,752 1,504,933 -49,819 -15,722 (Among Institutions) Trust Banks 41,649 Other Banks -2,984 Investment Trusts 975 --- Note: The "-" mark means net sales.

Shareholders of Kaigan Bell Management Ltd., the successor of now-defunct Kanebo Ltd., at their meeting Friday approved a plan for the company to be absorbed into investment firm Trinity Investment Co. for liquidation on Nov. 11. At the meeting that

Major retailer Aeon Co. said Friday that it will launch a tender offer for shoe store chain operator Tsuruya Shoe Store Co. on Monday in a bid to raise its effective equity stake to up to 52.16 pct. Aeon currently

Tokyo High Court on Friday rejected an appeal by five incinerator makers against Fair Trade Commission punishments for rigging bids for local government contracts. The court thus ruled in favor of an order made by the Japanese fair trade watchdog

Tokyo stocks are expected to move erratically next week with investors keeping a wary eye on the fate of the U.S. government's plan to bail out financial firms and a host of Japanese and U.S. economic indicators. "The state of

ArmInfo. Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 302 drams for 1 dollar, 443 drams for 1 EUR and 11.9 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 303 drams for 1 dollar,

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation said Friday it has signed an accord to join forces with three Japanese banks to lend up to 550 million dollars to a Brazilian steelmaker unit. The subsidiary of Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais

ArmInfo. Armenian public must be informed of the reasons that made the government demand installation of cash registers at facilities of small and medium-scale business, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan says in an interview to Armenian Public Television. He said

ArmInfo. Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers are expected to meet in New York on 26 September, the Foreign Ministry press-service told ArmInfo. The details and the topics of the discussions during the bilateral meeting will be published later. The

ArmInfo. At least 2 years are necessary to transfer to digital system of broadcasting, Prime Minister of Armenia says in an interview to Armenian Public Television. He said the digitization process will take some 5 years. The country is not

Real estate developer C's Create Co. said Friday it has filed for court protection from creditors under the Civil Rehabilitation Law. The liabilities left by the company totaled 11,442 million yen. Tokyo District Court accepted the application immediately, the company

Pakistan said Friday that troops have killed 1,000 Islamist militants in a huge offensive, a day after President Asif Ali Zardari lashed out at US forces over a clash on the Afghan border. Five top Al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders were

A mirror image of Kirkuk, the Kurdish town of Khanaqin, near the border with Iran, that holds sizeable oil reserves is being exposed to ethnic tensions and rival territorial claims. Local Kurdish political leaders warn that the area could see

A former Iranian president warned the West Friday that its support for Israel would backfire as hundreds of thousands of people staged rallies in support of Palestinian and Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who