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[March 07, 2010]

Kyodo news summary -1-+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) TOKYO, March 7 -- (Kyodo) _ ---------- Iraqis vote in parliamentary election BAGHDAD - Iraqis voted in a parliamentary election Sunday, setting the stage for a new government to lead the country following the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops.


Voting began at 7:00 a.m. across the ethnically and religiously divided nation, with some 200,000 police officers and security force members deployed against possible terrorist acts aimed at disrupting polling.

---------- China has 'positive' attitude toward resolving gas field disputes BEIJING - China has a positive attitude toward addressing bilateral disputes with Japan over gas field development in the East China Sea, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Sunday.

"The attitude of China is positive, not negative," Yang said. "It is our consistent position that differences between the two countries over the issue of the East China Sea should be properly handled through consultations and negotiations." ---------- Consumer loan companies to stop lending to homemakers TOKYO - Japan's major consumer loan companies plan to stop lending to housewives and male homemakers without their own income in line with the scheduled full implementation after June of tighter lending rules on moneylenders, sources close to the matter said Saturday.

With the full implementation of the revised moneylending business law aimed at helping reduce the number of heavily indebted borrowers, moneylenders will be required to limit loans to one-third of borrowers' annual income.

---------- Sri Lanka rejects call for war crimes investigation by the U.N.

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa rejected a proposed U.N. war crimes advisory panel on Sri Lanka as "totally uncalled for and unwarranted," his office said Saturday.

Rajapaksa's press office said the president and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon discussed over the phone a Feb. 25 letter from Ban indicating his intention to set up a panel of experts to advise Ban on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.

---------- Fujitsu dismisses ex-president Nozoe as advisor TOKYO - (EDS: ADDING DETAILS) Leading Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu Ltd. on Saturday dismissed Kuniaki Nozoe from the job of advisor, saying the relations of trust between him and the company have been undermined, after he asked to have his resignation nullified and be reinstated as company president.

---------- Yosano demands Tanigaki quit as LDP leader, hints at new party TOKYO - Former Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party has called for LDP President Sadakazu Tanigaki to step down in an essay soon to appear in a monthly magazine, according to the text obtained Saturday.

Citing disappointment with Tanigaki for not seeming to be determined to bring down the government led by the Democratic Party of Japan, Yosano threatened in the essay for the Bungei Shunju magazine that a new party could be formed if Tanigaki does not resign.

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