The Malaysian low cost airline AirAsia X enhances the price war in Japan. Only 5,000 yen would cost a flight from Tokyo to Kuala Lumpur. To benefit from the offer, but ticketing must be reserved in October. From December accommodate AirAsia X, the new flight route between Tokyo's Haneda airport and city of the Malaysian capital.

Travelers through China can look forward to: no more standing in line for hours, no jostling crowds, no bellowed ticket requests, which must make it understandable to someone behind a thick disk. According to the Ministry of the railways it will be possible from year to purchase train tickets over the Internet.

The Japanese Ministry of Finance has On Wednesday for the first time in more than 6 years intervened in the foreign exchange market to weaken the strong yen. After Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda gave the green light for action, the dollar gained against the yen in strength and it fell from its peak level in 15 years.

Despite the strong yen Surpassed in July, new orders for machinery and Japan's trade surplus exceeded expectations. Incoming orders rose by 8.8 percent. This is the largest increase this year. The trade surplus grew year on year by 26 percent to 1.676 trillion yen.Yen exchange rate risk factorJapan's economic recovery seems therefore to move on for now.

Taiwan is admitted for the first time a magazine from the mainland: After a month, received a thorough examination in Lanzhou permission to publish in Taiwan.Duzhe strongly reminiscent of the American magazine Reader's Digest and is the best-selling magazine on the mainland, with a circulation of 10 million.

On 19 July 2000 was brought in Japan to commemorate the G-8 summit in Kyushu and Okinawa, a 2,000-yen note into circulation. The acceptance of the population lacked the novelty and quickly fell into oblivion. The problem: the 2000-yen note was accepted in the land of the vending machine a little. As a result, she makes now only an insignificant percentage of the total notes in circulation.

Japan's rice storage are no longer filled as well as for 8 years. The result is lower prices and less rice cultivation in the coming year.Forecasts of the Ministry of Agriculture, according to Japan's public and private storage are expected this year include a total of 3.24 million tons of rice, 2.

It is a rare specimen of a blue fin tuna, which last Friday at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market had been offered for sale. The dealers were astonished bad. “Not many retailers have already seen such a fish,” said the spokesman of the best-selling fish market.A weight of 445 pounds And had a length of 2.

Japan Airlines has begun to sell one third of its aircraft fleet. The sale is part of the restructuring of JAL and affects 95 medium and large aircraft, including jumbo jets. The sale of the machines and should be completed by year end of 18 spare engines, reports the Japan Times.Sales of € 715 millionJAL and State Enterprise Restructuring Turnaround Initiative Corp.

The oil giant BP Now struggling for months against the leaking oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Costs are rising day by day in the air. The majority of the damage will have to take BP. But the British company owns a 65 percent stake is not the only oil drilling licenses for the affected source in the Gulf of Mexico.