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Tokyo Tax Bureau Imposes Taxes On Amazon.com Japan Operations- Asahi (Nasdaq)
TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau told Amazon.com Inc.’s (AMZN) affiliated company Amazon.com International Sales to pay back taxes of $ 119 million, the Asahi Shimbun reported in its Sunday morning edition.

One dead, 15 wounded in Philippine blast (AFP via Yahoo! News)
At least one person was killed and 15 wounded in a bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the strife-torn southern Philippines, police said.

Japanese Baseball: Root, Root, Root and Buy Me Some Eel (New York Times)
Japanese baseball fans, like these at a Yomiuri Giants game in the Tokyo Dome, don’t sit on their hands.

Standard and Poor’s maintains Philippines’ ratings (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s affirmed its credit ratings for the Philippines, saying the outlook for both long-term ratings was stable despite the global financial turmoil.

5 dead, 35 hurt by explosion outside Philippine church – Update (EARTHtimes.org)
Cotabato City, Philippines – Five people were killed and 35 wounded when a homemade bomb exploded outside a Catholic cathedral in a southern Philippine city on Sunday, officials said. The blast occurred as churchgoers packed the Immaculate Concepcion…

Five dead, 34 wounded in Philippine church bombing (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Five people were killed and at least 34 wounded in a suspected Muslim rebel bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the strife-torn southern Philippines, officials said.

Four dead, 34 wounded in Philippine church bombing (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Four people were killed and 34 wounded in a bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the strife-torn southern Philippines, police and military said.

Two dead, nearly 30 wounded in Philippine blast (AFP via Yahoo! News)
At least two people were killed and nearly 30 others wounded in a bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the strife-torn southern Philippines, police and military said.

Bomb blast near south Philippine cathedral kills 1 (AP via Yahoo! News)
Suspected Muslim guerrillas detonated a bomb near a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding more than two dozen others.

Japanese voters go to polls in key test (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Voters went to the polls in central Japan to elect a new governor in a race seen as a key factor influencing when embattled Prime Minister Taro Aso will call a general election.

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-07-05 06:02 Japan levies taxes on Amazon’s Japan business-media (Interactive Investor)
TOKYO, July 5 (Reuters) – Japanese tax authorities have told an affiliated company of Amazon.com to pay some $119 million in taxes for unreported income in Japan over three years to the end of 2005, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday. But the company said the taxation was inappropriate and asked tax authorities in the United States and Japan to discuss whether the firm properly complied with …

The online home of Papua New Guinea’s No.1 daily newspaper. (Post-Courier)
NEWS 50 treated for food poison More than 200 young people attending the Oro Provincial Games were fed with allegedly contaminated food donated by the Oro Provincial Government.

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