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India-China consensus big stride forward Li
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Monday described the consensus reached on various issues between China and India as "a big stride forward" and called for conducting dialogue in a "mature and sensible way". It was fair to say that the two sides had "arrived at multiple, significant outcomes", Li said in his statement to the media alongside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both countries had ...
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Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title
Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...
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India China border experts will meet soon
Special representatives of India and China will meet soon to discuss their disputed border where Chinese incursion sparked tensions recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. Speaking to the media jointly with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Manmohan Singh said that while India and China have had differences, relations had been built steadily in the more recent times. He said both ...
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Australian construction industry to see slow recovery
The Australian building and construction industry will see a mixed recovery over 2015-16 after a number of challenging years, according to Master Builders Australia (MBA) forecasts released Monday. While the forecasts predict a positive growth for the industry, MBA reports that the current economic climate is creating headwinds that may impede the timing and strength of recovery. There's light ...
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Global prosperity not possible without development of India and China Premier Li Keqiang
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is on a three-day state visit to India, on Monday said that global prosperity would not be possible without the simultaneous development of China and India. Keqiang, who received a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here this morning, told media that the combined population of China and India is a third of the world's population, and therefore, both ...
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China-Indias large potential makes West anxious Daily
China and India's combined potential are large enough to make the West anxious but there are "many weaknesses in the bilateral relationship", a state-run Chinese daily has said. Said the Global Times in an editorial Monday, the second day of Premier Li Keqiang's India trip: "As China's new premier, his selection of India for his first overseas trip has widely been interpreted as a sign that ...
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Warner facing CA disciplinary hearing over vitriolic Twitter outburst ahead of Ashes
Australian opening batsman David Warner is facing a Cricket Australia (CA) disciplinary hearing for his vitriolic social media outburst at respected News Limited sportswriters Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. Warner, whose captaincy aspirations have taken a hit, had been reported for breaching the code of behaviour of the CA, which will be deciding a date for the hearing ahead of this week's ...
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Washington’s hacking charges escalate pressure on China
Yesterday, top US officials and media made unsubstantiated allegations of hacking of US computer systems by a military unit in Shanghai, escalating tensions with China. ...
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Detained Chinese Fishermen Boat Released by North Korea
The official Xinhua news agency reported the development Tuesday, quoting a Chinese consular official in Pyongyang who spoke with the owner of the fishing boat. The official said the men were safe and on their way home, but he gave no other details. The owner of the boat says North Korea was demanding nearly $100,000 for the return of the boat and crew, which were taken May 6 in the waters ...
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New Zealand to increase military presence in South Pacific
New Zealand is preparing to increase its military presence in the South Pacific, in close collaboration with the Australian government. The moves further align the two regional imperialist powers with the US Obama administration's "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific and its aggressive confrontation of China.The New Zealand government announced its plans following an inaugural meeting of ...
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Annual fishing ban on South China Sea begins today
An annual fishing ban on the northern part of the South China Sea will begin on Thursday, aiming to further protect marine resources and promote environmental awareness among ...
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China’s Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected
China president Xi Jinping AP FILE PHOTO BEIJING -- China’s new leader Xi Jinping will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than their expected first meeting, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea. The June 7-8 meeting at a retreat southeast of Los Angeles, announced Monday by the White ...
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China Jiangsu Commodities Exhibition opens in Osaka
China Jiangsu Commodities Exhibition 2013 kicked off on Tuesday in the western Japanese commercial city of Osaka, attracting more than 160 firms and manufacturers from the Chinese coastal province.The three-day event, held in "MyDome Osaka," a major exhibition hall in central Osaka, is mainly organized by the Japan-China Economic Relations and Trade Center in cooperation with the ...
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Azerbaijan dismisses reports on purchasing arms from DPRK
Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry on Monday denied reports on the possible purchase of weapons by the country from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)."Recently a number of media outlets, in reference to a UN report, propagated information stating that Azerbaijan allegedly buys weapons from the DPRK. This information does not reflect reality," Foreign Ministry spokesman ...
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Japan mayor says S Korean troops abused women
South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, Osaka's mayor said in comments reported Tuesday, days after provoking a storm by labelling sex slaves a military ...
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Asia Pacific leaders call for efficient use of water resources
The second Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS) ended yesterday with two versions of the Chiang Mai Declaration. The official declaration by leaders of 40 countries highlighted the need to encourage the inclusion of disaster risk reduction in the United Nations' development agenda beyond 2015, upgrade regional cooperation, promote the efficient use of water resources, and forge better ...
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Chickens back on the menu in China
Panic over the spread of the deadly bird flu across China appears to be subsiding, with a few outbreak-hit provinces rolling back their high-alert state of readiness after reporting no new infections over the past two weeks. With experts expecting the impending summer heat to weaken the H7N9 virus, three eastern provinces - Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shandong - have announced that they will relax ...
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Anger in Taiwan spurs tough stance
For the first time in his life, says New Taipei City deputy mayor Lee Shu-chuan, he can finally "feel the existence of the government", thanks to its tough stance against the Philippines in the spat over the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman. "Honestly, this is the first time I can feel the government's existence," said Lee, who is from the same Xiaoliuqiu island ...
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China India agree to boost peace along border
India and China agreed to explore ways to maintain peace along their long but undefined border, as visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang promised to build trust with India. Li said "amicable ties" between the two economic powers were good not just for Asia, but for the world as well. Weeks after a border dispute was resolved, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Li yesterday agreed ...
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Ray Manzarek keyboardist and founding member of rock group The Doors dies at 74 from cancer
FILE - In this undated publicity file photo, members of the Doors, from left, John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison, pose for a portrait. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded ...
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FBI cast reporter as criminal in probe of North Korea leak
WASHINGTON -- In another case of the Obama administration's investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory -- by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked ...
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Beauty contest held in Mexico prison
Female prisoners participates in the Nuestra Belleza Interna 2013 beauty pageant in the Baja California state prison known as La Mesa, in Tijuana, Mexico, 17 May 2013. Of the more than 120 female inmates who tried out, 25 were selected as finalists who participated in the pageant. The event is part of an ongoing effort in the prison to improve self esteem and re-integrate inmates into society. ...
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DPRK urges U.S. to drop hostility
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday blamed the United States for tensions on the Korean Peninsula and urged it to stop hostility against Pyongyang. The U.S. claim that all its military actions are defensive while all DPRK actions are provocative is nothing but sheer sophism with rhetoric, the official KCNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying. ...
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Australian defence minister goes to U.S.
CANBERRA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith announced he wound visit the United States starting Thursday. Also on Thursday he exchanged diplomatic notes to bring the Australia - U.S. Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty into force with the U.S. Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich. It will be Smith's fifth visit to the United States as Minister for Defence and the ...
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China Japan S. Korea to launch panel to address PM2.5 air pollution
China, Japan and South Korea basically agreed Sunday to create a trilateral panel of high-ranking officials to address cross-border air pollution, including hazardous particulate matter measuring below 2.5 microns, Kyodo News Agency said. The agreement was reached at a two-day meeting of environment ministers in Kitakyushu, southwestern Japan. Such annual meetings have been held since 1999. ...
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Osaka sees first InterContinental hotel built
Osaka is a major travel destination within Japan and the wider Asian region for business travelers and leisure tourists alike. The city is an economic powerhouse and part of the backbone of the Japanese economy. It makes sense for InterContinental to finally open a hotel here then.
Osaka is the second command center of the Japanese economy after Tokyo, with a daytime and nighttime population that reflects the massive draw of the city as an economic powerhouse. Read more
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