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 Shanghai (AFP) Sept 28, 2009 
Foreign ministers from China, Japan and South Korea on Monday pledged to deepen cooperation on non-proliferation and disarmament, as pressure grew on Pyongyang over its nuclear programme. The three ministers, who met in Shanghai to prepare for an October 10 leaders' summit in Beijing, did not specifically refer to efforts to end North Korea's nuclear drive in a joint statement, read by China ... read more 
Taipei (AFP) Sept 28, 2009Taiwan wants to buy more F-16 fighter jets and will press the issue at an annual defence meeting with US officials, a military officer said Monday. The plea for new jets comes amid growing concern in Taiwan that the balance of power with China is shifting in favour of the mainland. "We'll utilise the opportunity to again express the hope of buying F-16s," the Taiwan defence ministry off ... more
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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 What we know of Jimmy Lai's national security verdicts Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges in Hong Kong 
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2009China is second only to India worldwide in the number of people killed by rabies every year, the government has reported, making the disease one of the nation's biggest public health threats. "China is one of the countries most severely affected by rabies, and in recent years the number of annual reported deaths from rabies has averaged around 2,400," the health ministry said in a statement ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2009People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday. In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Shen Zhengkang of the China Earthquake Administration and colleagues said the May 12, 2008 quake comprised a strong seismic wave ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 28, 2009A Hong Kong publisher on Monday released a book about Chinese history that was banned in mainland China for criticising authoritarian rule, just days before the celebration of 60 years of communism. "Chinese History Revisited" by journalist Xiao Jiansheng is on sale in Hong Kong bookshops despite Beijing banning the book two years ago, the publisher Bao Pu told AFP. Xiao's work, with an ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Sept 25, 2009Taiwan said Friday it will bar a visit by exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer while indirectly linking her organisation to terrorism, a move observers predicted will please China. "We have decided not to allow Kadeer entry considering that her visit could affect national interest and social order," Interior Minister Jiang Yi-huah said, according to an official with the Government Information ... more 
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 27, 2009Charlie Chaplin traipsed through its halls, Noel Coward finished his play "Private Lives" there and owner Victor Sassoon threw lavish parties for Shanghai's high-rollers. The Peace Hotel burned bright in the 1930s, but war, revolution and ill-conceived renovations battered the Bund institution and what was once the most luxurious hotel in the Far East faded into a shadow of its former self. ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 27, 2009Liu Tongbo trudged through Beijing looking for transport as the city centre shut down to make way for an unusual sight -- a stream of colourful floats, student performers... and missile-laden vehicles. "I live in the suburbs but the tube isn't stopping in the city centre where I work, so I've been walking for 30 minutes," the 45-year-old businessman said as the capital launched its final ... more |
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