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Nine injured as car and bus collide in Nagasaki (The Japan Times): NAGASAKI (Kyodo) Nine people sustained minor injuries Monday in a head-on collision between a sightseeing bus and a car in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture. Read more ...

Sony Looking To Make Amends For Surprise Stumble (Forbes): The conglomerate posted an unexpected net loss for the January-March quarter but promises strong operating profit gains in the fiscal year to come.

Briefly: 9 hurt in head-on collision (Asahi.com): HIRADO, Nagasaki Prefecture--Nine people were injured after a tour bus and a car collided on a prefectural road here Monday morning, police said. The driver of the car, Yurie Matsuyama, a 24-year-old assistant caregiver from Hirado, broke her left leg in the crash.

Dumped fishing gear causing heartbreak at sea (Asahi.com): SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--While ghost ships have been the stuff of nightmares over the ages, it is "ghost fishing" that is causing sleepless nights for fishing communities facing the Sea of Japan.

Deem statue theft as a ‘hate crime’ (Queens Courier): Elected officials are outraged, congregation leaders are desolate and cops are calling it a hate crime - a bronzed fiberglass statue of the first Filipino Roman Catholic saint was stolen from a front lawn in Jamaica Hill recently.

Security Flaws Exposed at Nuke Lab (Time Magazine): Exclusive: 'Terrorists' penetrated one of America's main nuclear-weapons labs in a recent simulation, sources tell TIME

Old timers recognized at Cloudcroft event (Alamogordo Daily News): Approximately 100 people came to honor three long-time residents of the Sacramento Mountains in the commons area of Cloudcroft High School Saturday. Honorees have to be at least 84 years of age and must have spent the majority of their lives in the area.

Sony Corporation Announces Final Results (Centre Daily Times): Sony Corporation (TOKYO:6758)(NYSE:SNE) today announced its consolidated results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008 (April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008).

Raymond Leon Roker: Blowback Mountain (HuffingtonPost): Note: I wrote this post back on April 1 of this year. Initially, after thinking that the Jeremiah Wright situation would resolve itself (finally), I...

Sony Corporation Announces Final Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance): TOKYO---- Sony Corporation 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 Japan No: 08-062E 3:00 P.M. JST, May 14, 2008