Okada bets to win with fine dining and casinos

May 15th, 2012 - 
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Kazuo Okada, the Japanese billionaire engaged in a fierce legal battle with Las Vegas casino tycoon Steve Wynn, is diversifying his pachinko company with a string of his own restaurants and is negotiating to build a casino resort in South Korea. On Tuesday, Okada opened a 25,000-square-foot fine dining complex in Hong Kong, the first step in an expansion plan that includes an Okada restaurant in Shanghai scheduled to open in September, and a dining complex in Tokyo due to open in December

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Booker T. & the MGs bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn dies at 70

May 14th, 2012 - 
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose thick bottom grooves anchored many of the classic soul hits from the 1960s, has died on tour in Japan, his friend and bandmate Steve Cropper said on Sunday. Dunn was 70.

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"Northeast Kingdom" a treasure trove for writer

April 12th, 2012 - 
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The writer Howard Frank Mosher has lived for nearly half a century in such a remote part of the northern U.S. state of Vermont that Internet connections are very slow and even landline phone reception can be terrible at times

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Japan maestro Ozawa vows return after break

March 13th, 2012 - 
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Seiji Ozawa, Japan’s most famous conductor, on Tuesday pledged to return to performing next year, a week after saying he would take time off to recover from a recent spell of bad health that has included bouts of pneumonia. The former Vienna State Opera musical director, 76, who before that was conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in January 2010 and completed treatment later that year. …

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Whitney Houston back on the charts after her death (AP)

February 15th, 2012 - 
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AP – Fans are showing their grief over Whitney Houston’s death by buying her music.

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Whitney Houston estate to gain; questions remain (AP)

February 15th, 2012 - 
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AP – Whitney Houston’s career is getting a post-mortem boost, but it isn’t likely to be as big as the one that enriched the King of Pop’s estate after his death.

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Pregnant Bellas, Capt Jacks top Halloween costumes (Reuters)

October 21st, 2011 - 
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