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JAPANESE NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - JULY 30, 2004.

AsiaPulse News, July, 2004

TOKYO, July 30 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:

NIKKEI NET:

- In a move that will likely lead to a complicated, high-profile competition to become the world's largest banking group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (TSE:8316) said Friday it is considering asking UFJ Holdings Inc. (TSE: 8307) to start merger talks.

- The consumer price index (2000 _ 100), excluding perishable food, dipped 0.1 per cent year on year in June to 98.0, according to data released by the Ministry of Public Management Friday.

- Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.6 per cent in June from the previous month, with the number of unemployed declining 520,000 to 3.09 million from a year earlier, according to a report...

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