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Kyodo news summary -6-+(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, April 9_(Kyodo) _ ---------- Japan, N. Korea officials meet on 6-way nuke talks TOKYO - Senior Japanese and North Korean officials held another set of talks Sunday in Tokyo on the stalled six-party talks on the North's nuclear program as bilateral diplomacy went into high gear on the sidelines of a private multilateral security conference. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Japanese ambassador in charge of North Korea's nuclear issue, met with Jong Thae Yang, deputy head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's U.S. Affairs Department. Kenichiro Sasae, Japan's chief negotiator to the six-party talks and head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, met with Chun Young Woo, South Korea's chief delegate and deputy foreign minister, Sunday night in Tokyo. ---------- Chief Japan, S. Korea, U.S. delegates to meet Monday in Tokyo TOKYO - Chief Japanese, South Korean and U.S. negotiators to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program will meet Monday afternoon in Tokyo, South Korea's chief delegate Chun Young Woo said Sunday night. Chun, South Korea's deputy foreign minister, made the remark after meeting with Kenichiro Sasae, Japan's chief negotiator to the six-party talks and head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau. ---------- ASEM for vigilance over 'faster-than-expected' global rate hikes VIENNA - Finance ministers from Asia and Europe on Sunday called for vigilance over rising global interest rates, saying "faster than currently expected tightening of global financial conditions" poses a risk to an otherwise solid world economy. Asia-Europe Meeting finance ministers also cited "high and volatile" oil prices, "widening" current account imbalances and a possible avian flu pandemic as risks to the global economy, according to a chairman's statement issued after a two-day meeting in Vienna. ---------- Protester killed in Nepal police firing KATHMANDU - Police opened fire at a crowd of protesters in eastern Nepal on Sunday, killing one person and wounding three others, government officials said. The rally was held in Kavre district, about 40 kilometers east of Kathmandu, to protest the killing of a protester in the resort town of Pokhara on Saturday, reports from the scene said. ---------- 29 women, children killed in stampede in Karachi ISLAMABAD - At least 29 women and children were killed in a stampede at a women's religious gathering in Karachi on Sunday, police and hospital sources said. They said the stampede occurred when women attending the religious congregation at the Faizan-e-Madina campus of the Islamic group Dawat-ul-Islami were dispersing. ---------- 6 die, 4 missing in mountain avalanches in Nagano, Gifu NAGANO, Japan - Six men died, four went missing and one was seriously injured in a series of avalanches which occurred over the weekend in mountainous areas in Nagano and Gifu, police said Sunday. The death toll includes three skiers, aged between 57 and 68, in a five-man group that was hit by an avalanche Saturday around the village of Otari, Niigata Prefecture. |