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 Beijing (UPI) Oct 6, 2009 
Sixty years ago when Mao Zedong ushered the birth of the People's Republic of China under Communist rule, the Great Helmsman's message was: "The Chinese people have stood up." Last week's dazzling celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of that Oct. 1, 1949, event in Beijing's Tiananmen Square reaffirmed Mao's proclamation words. "Today, a socialist China geared to ... read more 
La Paza, Bolivia (UPI) Oct 5, 2009 Bolivia is defending its light attack aircraft purchases from China and an open line of credit for military hardware imports from Russia, arguing that its weapons acquisitions are less significant than those by other South American countries. Defense Minister Walker San Miguel said in a statement Bolivia spends less than its neighbors on military hardware and is committed to the ... 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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Seoul (AFP) Oct 6, 2009North Korea wants to placate key benefactor China by offering to return to disarmament talks and it is unclear whether it really intends to give up its cherished nuclear deterrent, analysts said Tuesday. Leader Kim Jong-Il told visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao late Monday the North is willing to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations -- on condition it first holds talks ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 7, 2009North Korea Tuesday expressed willingness to return to nuclear disarmament negotiations it quit six months ago, but only after it talks directly to the United States to improve "hostile relations". Leader Kim Jong-Il gave the commitment at a meeting late Monday with visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the North's official news agency reported. Highlighting the urgency of the issue, a ... more  
Bangkok (UPI) Oct 6, 2009 The World Wildlife Fund called for Asia's first regional climate change adaptation agreement in the Greater Mekong region. The area -- which comprises Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and southwest provinces of China -- is already strongly affected by climate change, and a lack of immediate action will come at great cost to the Mekong nations, states a WWF report released ... more |
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Quito (AFP) Oct 5, 2009Ecuador on Monday inked a deal with China's Sinohydro to build a two-billion-dollar hydroelectric plant in the South American nation, officials said. The 1,500-megawatt facility, to be 85-percent financed by China's Exim Bank, should be Ecuador's biggest when completed, and deliver 60 percent of the Andean nation's power, the Electricity Ministry said. Quito will pay for the other 15 ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 5, 2009Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il late Monday amid efforts to bring Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks, Beijing's state media reported. "Premier Wen Jiabao held talks with North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-Il on Monday evening," Xinhua news agency said on its website, without providing further details. Wen's high-profile three-day visit is ... more 
Bangkok (UPI) Oct 5, 2009 Industrialized nations are trying to "sabotage" a treaty to combat global warming in advance of the December climate summit in Copenhagen, China's chief climate negotiator said Monday. Now in the second and final week of talks in Bangkok on a climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, tensions were running high as negotiators representing 180 countries attempt to whittle down the exh ... more |
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