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TOKYO, July 3 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:
NIKKEI NET:
- Business confidence among large Japanese manufacturers marginally improved in the three months through June, reflecting a steady recovery in the domestic economy, the Bank of Japan said in its closely watched tankan survey released Monday. The diffusion index for business sentiment of major manufacturers reached 21 points, up 1 point from the previous survey.
- Ichiro Ozawa, president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, left for China on Monday morning to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and China's other senior officials.
- Parliamentarians earned an average 24.31 million yen (US$212,161) in 2005, marking the first rise in four years, thanks chiefly to increases in their salaries as lawmakers, according to a Kyodo News survey based on their official income reports released Monday.
- South Korea is set to begin research Monday on ocean currents in waters that include those near Takeshima, a pair of islets controlled by South Korea but ...