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 Washington (AFP) Sept 19, 2009 
US President Barack Obama geared up Saturday for whirlwind meetings next week with counterparts from China, Japan and Russia, but Iran's firebrand leader looked set to be left out in the cold. As world leaders converge on New York for the annual United Nations general assembly, officials said Obama would kick off a flurry of high-profile bilateral encounters by meeting Chinese President Hu ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 18, 2009China's ruling Communist Party pledged on Friday to crack down on "ethnic separatists", two months after deadly ethnic unrest rocked the restive mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang. The pledge came at the end of a key annual meeting of the party's powerful central committee which also vowed to battle endemic corruption and keep the economy growing, Xinhua news agency reported, citing an ... more
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Asian markets retreat ahead of US jobs as tech worries weigh
Trump says has asked Xi to release Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges Chinese man who documented alleged Uyghur camps risks removal from US Daughter warns China not to make Jimmy Lai a 'martyr' China sanctions retired Japan general over Taiwan 'collusion' International reaction to Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai verdict Japan's only two pandas to be sent back to China Asian markets drop with Wall St as tech fears revive Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media 'troublemaker' in Beijing's crosshairs 
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Nantou, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 20, 2009Crumpled temples and buckled running tracks are among the scattered visible scars left from the earthquake that devastated Taiwan a decade ago on Monday. And the emotional aftershocks from the 7.6-magnitude tremor that killed 2,415 people are still being felt today. "Two of my granddaughters were crushed to death in the quake," said Lin Yu-bi, an 82-year-old woman from Guoshing township ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Sep 18, 2009 "Made in China" is the theme for this year's national day parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic, the national news agency has reported. Weapons on display and in the march-past will include sophisticated radar, unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite communication devices of the People's Liberation Army, Lt. Gen. Fang Fenghui, general director of the parade ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 19, 2009China's wild panda population has remained stable despite last year's Sichuan earthquake that damaged key areas of the endangered species' habitat, state press said Saturday. A recent survey in Sichuan province concluded that the deadly May 12 tremor did not lead to significant fatalities in the panda population, the Chengdu Evening News said. "The panda has a strong capacity to adapt ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 18, 2009Washington's view that China's increasingly advanced weaponry could undermine US military power in the Pacific were "groundless and irresponsible," China's defence ministry said Thursday. "China's military development is always a positive factor for both regional and global peace and stability," Hu Changming, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence, was quoted as saying by official ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 17, 2009A Chinese court on Thursday convicted four more people over a wave of needle attacks blamed on separatists in the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, handing down jail terms of up to 15 years. The verdicts were issued by a court in the regional capital of Urumqi, scene of most of the reported needle attacks as well as earlier ethnic unrest in July pitting Muslim Uighurs against Han Chinese ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 16, 2009A week ahead of his debut on the world stage, Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he wants to build a "relationship of trust" but also frankness with US President Barack Obama. Hatoyama is set to meet Obama, China's president Hu Jintao and other world leaders at the UN General Assembly and climate change talks in New York, and a Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh on ... more |
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