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JAPAN'S trade surplus fell in November from a year earlier for the first time in 35 months as the costs of the higher yen made Japanese goods less attractive abroad, the Finance Ministry said . . . RESCUERS extricated parts of a body from the rubble of a 21-story condominium building that collapsed last weekend in Kuala Lumpur, leaving authorities searching for 48 others still missing, police said Wednesday . . . DECADES of overcutting have almost completely depleted China's mature timber resources. China's forestry minister attacked developers who have destroyed 5.4 million acres of forest in the past five years.