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UK: Storm Goretti Triggers Snow Warnings, Wreaking Havoc Across Country

The Met Office issued weather warnings for heavy snow as Storm Goretti approaches the UK, warning of potential injuries and a danger to life. The severe weather caused major travel disruptions, thousands of power outages, and the closure of many schools.

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Taiwan: Rain And Winds Pick Up As Typhoon Krathon Approaches

Rain and winds started to pick up in Taipei on Monday, September 30 as Typhoon Krathon approached Taiwan.

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Postal life insurance to sell other firms' products even before IPO

TOKYO, Japan - Josuke Shindo, chairman-designate of a postal life insurance firm that will emerge on the privatization of Japan's postal system in October 2007, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. He said that the firm, tentatively called Kampo Life Insurance, will seek to sell other insurers' products even before its initial public offering.

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(1)Gov't panel debates privatization of postal services

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L), accompanied by his Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka, presides over a meeting of his key policy-setting panel called to discuss privatization of the public postal services, including a plan to put the three main businesses -- mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance -- independently under a holding company.

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(1)Japan Post takes over postal services from gov't

TOKYO, Japan - The new logo of Japan Post, which takes over the governmental Postal Services Agency, is unveiled during an inauguration ceremony in Tokyo on April 1. Capitalized at 1 trillion yen, Japan Post has taken over the three services of mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance from the agency.

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Postal life insurance to sell other firms' products even before

TOKYO, Japan - Josuke Shindo, chairman-designate of a postal life insurance firm that will emerge on the privatization of Japan's postal system in October 2007, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. He said that the firm, tentatively called Kampo Life Insurance, will seek to sell other insurers' products even before its initial public offering. (Kyodo)

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(1)Gov't panel debates privatization of postal services

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L), accompanied by his Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka, presides over a meeting of his key policy-setting panel called to discuss privatization of the public postal services, including a plan to put the three main businesses -- mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance -- independently under a holding company. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan Post takes over postal services from gov't

TOKYO, Japan - The new logo of Japan Post, which takes over the governmental Postal Services Agency, is unveiled during an inauguration ceremony in Tokyo on April 1. Capitalized at 1 trillion yen, Japan Post has taken over the three services of mail delivery, postal savings and ''kampo'' life insurance from the agency. (Kyodo)