382300 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/intl-community/2013/02/21/370865/Taiwan-police.htm(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Police in Southern Taiwan said yesterday that they recently provided food and shelter to a Japanese man who is on walking tour around Taiwan to say thanks for the assistance given to his country after a devastating earthquake in March 2011.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:04:00 +0100ChinaPost-411848f0f7b2b10dfd76a1e696c5adbd20130220200400http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/02/20/japan-trade-deficit.html?cmp=rssJapan posted a record 1.63 trillion yen ($17.4 billion Cdn) trade deficit in January as rebounding exports lagged behind surging imports of crude oil and gas due to rising prices and the weakening yen.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:29:00 +0100CBC-7a1a08734d858bb421c40a4b263372c520130220192900http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2013/02/21/2003555352An anonymous donor has sent gold ingots worth at least US$247,000 to survivors of the March 2011 tsunami in northeast Japan, as the region prepares to mark the second anniversary of the disaster. The gold bars began arriving in the town of Ishinomaki, where 3,000 people died and more than 40,000 buildings were destroyed, earlier this month.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:19:00 +0100taipeitimes-b12ba02363817b58969d2ada511b131c20130220181900http://news.yahoo.com/2-years-slow-quake-recovery-152030172.htmlTwo years after an earthquake devastated New Zealand's second largest city, killing 185 and rattling Phil Thompson's suburban house off its foundations, the 65-year-old retiree still lives in a cramped ...Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:38:00 +0100news-yahoo-e89fbc3613dd3ae21de554774cbb83f820130220163800