2nd extra budget likely to clear Diet on Mon.

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TOKYO, Jan. 23 Kyodo -
The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan decided Friday to vote on a
second extra budget for fiscal 2008 in the upper house on Monday, senior DPJ

China's Wang meets with N. Korea premier

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BEIJING, Jan. 22 Kyodo -
A senior Chinese Communist Party official visiting North Korea met Thursday
with the country's premier as well as a high-ranking member of the ruling

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