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US push for new security mechanism irks Southeast Asia
Washington (AFP) April 13, 2008US-led moves to turn a forum grappling with the North Korean nuclear crisis into a permanent security mechanism are frustrating Southeast Asia's bid to become a key player in regional security, experts say. The United States is pushing for the six-party nuclear talks, also involving China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas, to be transformed into a permanent Northeast Asian mechanism for ... more US forces chief in Japan says China's military intent unclear 
Tokyo (AFP) April 14, 2008The United States' top military commander in Japan on Monday called for greater military transparency from China, saying the reasons for its rising defence spending remained unclear. Transparency "is extremely important in terms of building trust, building confidence and preventing miscalculation and misunderstanding," said Commander Edward Rice Jr., who assumed the top post in February. ... more Taiwan-China meet started to 'thaw the ice': president-elect 
Taipei (AFP) April 14, 2008Weekend talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Taiwan's vice president-elect have started to "thaw the ice" in ties between the rivals, the island's incoming president Ma Ying-jeou said Monday. The landmark meeting on Saturday between Hu and Taiwan's Vincent Siew on the sidelines of a regional forum in Hainan, southern China, "has started to thaw the ice across the strait," Ma told ... more South China Sea headed for troubled waters: marine experts 
Hanoi (AFP) April 13, 2008Polluted, crossed by busy shipping lanes, and disputed by many countries, the South China Sea has taken an environmental battering that threatens future food supplies, marine scientists have warned. In a decade the sea -- at the heart of a densely populated and rapidly industrialising region -- has lost 16 percent of its coral reefs and coastal mangroves and 30 percent of its sea grass, says ... more China conducting 'cultural genocide' in Tibet: Dalai Lama 
Washington (AFP) April 14, 2008Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama maintained Monday that Beijing was carrying out "cultural genocide" in the Himalayan territory despite denial of the charge by the Chinese leadership. In an interview with NPR, the US public radio network, the exiled 72-year-old leader currently on a US visit also expressed confidence he would eventually return to his homeland. The Dalai Lama, who ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 14, 2008A large spill of toxic slurry from a mine has turned part of a northern Chinese river black and fouled it with dangerous chemicals, state media said Monday. The accident occurred Friday in Shaanxi province when the sides of a catchment basin for toxic tailings, or mining debris, at a vanadium mine collapsed after heavy rain, the Shaanxi-based Chinese Business View reported. The collapse ... more China bids to keep higher industrial tariffs at WTO 
Geneva (AFP) April 14, 2008China on Monday sought to persuade the World Trade Organisation to let it keep higher tariffs on industrial goods in any global trade deal, sparking fierce opposition from developed countries. China, which joined the WTO in 2001, wants to be able to charge tariffs above the 23 percent level proposed for developing countries, citing its status as a "recently acceded member," trade officials a ... more Cosmonauts to abandon Soviet-era space base by 2020: report 
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia will end manned space launches from Kazakhstan's Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome by 2020, replacing it with a launch pad in Russia, a top official said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. All cosmonauts will instead take off from the new Vostochny base, planned in Russia's southeast near the Chinese border, the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Anatoly Perminov, was quoted ... more China supports Pakistan stability measures: Hu 
Boao, China (AFP) April 11, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday told his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf he supported measures taken by the South Asian government to maintain stability, Chinese state media reported. "China respects, understands and supports all measures taken by the Pakistani government to maintain domestic peace and stability, and promote economic development," Hu said, according to Xinhua ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 12, 2008China has rejected a study which found a probable case of human-to-human bird flu transmission in the country, state media reported. The study, published in British medical magazine The Lancet this week, said a 24-year-old man was likely to have infected his father with H5N1 before dying, raising the spectre of a feared flu pandemic. But health ministry spokesman Mao Qun'an said there ... more US And Chinese Defense Chiefs Open Hotline As Calls For Greater Transparency Increase 
Washington (AFP) April 10, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Chinese counterpart General Liang Guanglie used a new telephone hotline Thursday between the US and Chinese defense ministries for the first time, the Pentagon said. Gates and Liang spoke to each other for about 30 minutes over the direct telephone link, said Major Stuart Upton, a Pentagon spokesman. Upton said Gates used the call to urge China ... more China cracks two terrorist groups: state media 
Beijing (AFP) April 10, 2008China has cracked two terrorist groups in its heavily Muslim west that were planning attacks aimed at the Beijing Olympics, the nation's security ministry said Thursday. "The terrorists, who numbered 45 in all, had attempted to carry out sabotage to undermine the Beijing Olympic Games," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Public Security Ministry spokesman Wu Heping as saying. In one ... more Taiwan's incoming VP readies for possible Hu meeting 
Taipei (AFP) April 10, 2008Taiwan's vice president-elect flies to China on Friday for a forum that may include talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, in what would be the highest-level contact ever between Beijing and Taipei. Any meeting between Vincent Siew and Hu would likely help smooth political tensions that have hamstrung relations despite the ever closer economic links tying the island to China, analysts say. ... more
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