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The Avanti Group (Sept. 03 2013) - Asian markets look set for a second day of gains on Tuesday after a string of upbeat factory data around the globe boosted shares and most commodities, while a delay in a potential U.S. strike on Syria weighed on safe-havens such as gold and the yen.
While Wall Street was closed for the Labor Day holiday, U.S. stock futures posted solid gains with the S&P 500 contract up 0.9 percent. Broad gains across European bourses lifted MSCI's world equity index .MIWD00000PUS 0.6 percent.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 1.2 percent on Monday, and looked likely to notch up a fourth day of gains on Tuesday.
The dollar climbed to a one-month peak against the yen at 99.43, while gold eased to $1,391 an ounce as investors rediscovered an appetite for risk.
Prospects for the global economy brightened considerably according to a fresh round of purchasing managers' surveys for August.
Factory activity in the euro zone rose at its fastest pace in more than two years, and even manufacturing in struggling Spain grew for the first time since April 2011.
The UK's version of the survey far outstripped expectations and sent sterling up to $1.5541 as the market brought forward the likely timing of the first rate hike there.
The euro climbed around 1 percent against the yen to reach 131.21 yen, well away from last week's trough of 129.31. But it lost ground to the dollar at $1.3195.
All of which reinforced the impact of China's PMI which has showed activity in the country's vast manufacturing sector was at its highest in more than a year.
That buoyed industrial commodities with copper prices rebounding 1.9 percent to $7,238 a tonne and ending a four-day losing streak.
Markets were also unwinding much of last week's safe-haven trades as worries about an imminent military strike against Syria eased after U.S. President Barack Obama decided to seek congressional approval.
U.S. crude oil prices slipped 83 cents to $106.84 a barrel, though Brent fared better.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Avanti Group (Sept. 02 2013) - Identity fraud on the popular social networking site Facebook has been surging recently, with fraudsters hijacking accounts or masquerading as real friends or acquaintances. Some victims have had their personal information stolen after approving fake friend requests from acquaintances.
Familiar name
“These are some pictures taken by my friend. If you don’t mind, please vote for them.”
A 48-year-old male company employee from Chiba city, the capital of Chiba Prefecture, received this Facebook message in June from a female company employee in Kashiwa, also in the prefecture.
As she was an acquaintance from more than 10 years ago, he did not think twice before clicking on the URL. The link took him to another site with several photos of scenery.
When he tried to vote for one of them, he was asked to enter his cell phone number.
Thinking this to be strange, he contacted the woman, who said she had not sent any such message.
She logged into her Facebook profile and checked with her friends on the matter, only to find her account had been used by an unknown person.
Similar messages had been sent to about 60 of her Facebook friends.
The woman had been using the same password on several different websites. “My password must have been stolen from some of the sites and used maliciously,” she said.
“My account may have been hijacked. I’m terribly sorry for causing my friends trouble.”
Antiviral software company Trend Micro Inc. said it had confirmed five cases in which Facebook users were tricked into visiting websites using a similar technique and actually entered their cell phone numbers. READ FULL ARTICLE AT THE-JAPAN-NEWS.COM
Faced with strict building codes, a family finds ways to work ultramodern design into a storied setting.
What do you do if you want an ultramodern house in ultratraditional Kyoto, the cultural heart of Japan?
That is the question that confronted Gaku and Yukiko Tomii, two 30-something dentists, who wanted to build a fun, unusual living space atop a hill minutes away from some of the most storied temples in the country.
Their answer: T-House, a 2,152-square-foot, $669,000 modernist cube of a dwelling, which meets Kyoto's strict design regulations on the outside but bends all the rules on the inside.
From the street, the simple lines and traditional white and dark-brown coloring of T-House help it blend with the traditional Japanese-style homes in the woody, suburban neighborhood of northwestern Kyoto where it is located. But the home's front door opens into a soaring three-story, glass-front atrium intersected at different levels by concrete compartments that serve as rooms built around a minimalist curved staircase.
"We wanted to create a big public space, and do something really fun and interesting on the inside," says the home's designer, Peter Boronski, a former New Zealand skateboard champion and surfer who came to Japan to study architecture in 1993.
Mr. Tomii, who grew up in the area and played on the site when it was still undeveloped woodland, bought the lot for about $313,000 in 2008. But he decided he wanted something more distinctive than the standard-looking homes that dot the hilltop. The Tomiis hired Mr. Boronski, whom they had met a few years after he established his Kyoto studio in 2004, and asked him to design something warm, bright and lively. READ FULL ARTICLE AT WSJ.COM
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