The Democratic Party of Japan’s landmark victory in the House of Representatives election in August and the subsequent launch of the administration of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama ranked as this year’s top domestic news story chosen by readers of News Results

Around 60 per cent of respondents also disapproved of Hatoyama’s handling of the relocation of a U.S. Marine base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. The relocation of the U.S. military base is at the centre of a growing row between Tokyo and News Results

There would be significant severance and relocation costs. But as Mikhail pointed out, that would be counter-balanced by the savings in welfare and other social costs down here. Toronto developers are hungering for prime downtown land. News Results

RALEIGH – It played out in an eerily familiar way for RBC Bank in 2009. Five years earlier, the company that was then operating as RBC Centura Bank ran into financial roadblocks. Executives at parent Royal Bank of Canada quietly, but surely, made News Results

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