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Written on 23 March 2013, 11.19 by
Leaders of China and Russia have indicated their intention not to make concessions to Japan and its ally, the United States, regarding territorial issues. Chinese President Xi Jinping began his first diplomatic tour with a visit to Moscow on Friday, where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin.
At the start of the talks, Putin described the ties between the two countries as an "extremely important factor in global politics." Xi responded that current bilateral relations are the best ever. Xi...100
Written on 23 March 2013, 11.18 by
A state of emergency has been declared in central Myanmar. Clashes between Buddhists and Muslims have left people dead and injured. Myanmar's state television reported that since Wednesday, 11 people died and 39 people were injured in central Myanmar's Meikhtila District, where Buddhists are in the majority.
Myanmar's President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency on Friday night in 4 districts, including areas around Meikhtila. The tensions began when a Buddhist couple tried to sell...117
Written on 23 March 2013, 11.14 by
European Union leaders have postponed a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scheduled for next week due to the financial problem in Cyprus. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso announced this in a statement on Friday. They were scheduled to meet Abe in Japan on Monday. The statement says the ongoing efforts to find a solution to the financial situation of Cyprus require their presence in Brussels.
It says the 2 leaders...113
Written on 23 March 2013, 11.05 by
Lawmakers in Cyprus have approved key legislation in their race to secure a financial lifeline from the European Union. Their plan includes restructuring banks...and setting up a fund that would help them qualify for a bailout that would keep the country afloat. Cyprus needs to raise 5.8 billion euros in collateral to secure a bailout worth 10 billion. Government leaders had accepted a plan that involved taking money from people's bank accounts. But parliament rejected the idea.
Lawmakers...115
Written on 04 November 2012, 23.12 by
Four Chinese government ships navigated in Japanese waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea for more than 3 hours on Sunday. Japan Coast Guard said the 4 maritime surveillance ships entered Japanese waters off Uotsuri Island one by one from the north from 11:40 AM to noon. They left the area before 3 PM. The Coast Guard is continuing to monitor the vessels' movements as they remain in a contiguous zone just outside Japan's waters. Chinese government ships have entered the waters for...819
Written on 04 November 2012, 23.08 by
An advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has suggested that the United States would take a firmer stance against China than the Obama administration if Romney assumes office. Princeton University Professor Aaron Friedberg spoke to NHK in Washington ahead of Tuesday's vote. Friedberg serves as Romney's advisor on Asia-Pacific policies. Friedberg described the administration of President Barack Obama as acting weak on the row between Japan, a US ally, and China over islands in the...325
Written on 04 November 2012, 23.02 by
Romney campaign making last push in swing states
US presidential challenger Mitt Romney is making last-minute efforts in key swing states to rally support ahead of Tuesday's election. The latest poll by ABC Television shows Romney and President Barack Obama are neck-and-neck in support rates with 48 percent each. But Obama is expected to win more votes from the electoral college made up of electors allocated to each state. He is also gaining momentum after winning praise for his response to...299
Written on 16 October 2012, 09.31 by
JAKARTA, 15 October 2012 - Realising ASEAN’s vision of promoting intra-regional tourism, trade and commerce, and legal movement of people is one step closer as the Royal Government of Cambodia has deposited their instrument of ratification to the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Visa Exemption for ASEAN Nationals last week with Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN, in accordance with the Article 8 of said Agreement.
The ASEAN Framework Agreement on Visa Exemption for ASEAN N...346
Written on 16 October 2012, 00.04 by
(CNN) -- Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, who was monarch for more than 60 years until his abdication in 2004, died early Monday in Beijing at the age of 89, state news reported.
Sihanouk died of natural causes after having been treated by Chinese doctors for years for various forms of cancer, diabetes and hypertension, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Nhik Bun Chhay.
The "royal government" will bring the late king's body back to his...439
Written on 15 October 2012, 23.55 by
This year's Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to 2 US researchers for their separate work on how to match different economic agents as efficiently as possible. The Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday that Alvin Roth, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Lloyd Shapley, Professor Emeritus at University of California at Los Angeles, both in the United States, had won the prize. The academy says Shapley used game theory to study and compare different matching methods and...292
Written on 14 October 2012, 07.01 by
(CNN) -- Fighting spread through Syria on Saturday as rebels claimed the downing of a government jet and state media reported the killings of "terrorists."
Activists said rebels shot down the plane in Aleppo province. A video distributed by activists shows men shouting "God is great" as they rush to the scene amid celebratory gunfire.
The video showed mangled wreckage, small fires and plumes of smoke.
"These are the aircrafts of the dog Bashar al-Assad," one voice in the video said, referring to...325
Written on 14 October 2012, 06.48 by
(CNN) -- In an audio message credited to Al Qaeda's top leader, the speaker praises last month's deadly attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya and calls for more protests against offensive depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.
"May God salute the free honest believers who stood up and stormed the American Consulate in Benghazi and those who demonstrated in front of the American Embassy in Cairo and brought down the American flag and raised the banner of Islam and Jihad instead," Ayman al-Zawahiri says...318
Written on 14 October 2012, 06.35 by
North Korea has opened its first major trade fair in northeastern China, with about 100 companies taking part. The fair opened on Saturday in the border city of Dandong. About 80 percent of the trade between China and North Korea is said to go through the city. This is the first trade show jointly organized by the 2 countries and North Korea's largest-ever trade fair outside its own borders.
The participating North Korean companies include trading firms dealing in mineral resources as well as...272
Written on 14 October 2012, 06.31 by
An IMF steering committee is calling on developed nations to deliver necessary structural reforms and implement credible fiscal plans to restore the global economy to sustainable growth. The International Monetary and Financial Committee, made up of 24 countries, met in Tokyo on Saturday to discuss global economic issues.
A joint statement issued after the meeting said global growth has decelerated and that substantial uncertainties and downside risks remain. Regarding Europe, the statement...260
Written on 14 October 2012, 06.27 by
Japan's government says it will work with the World Bank and use its human resources and technologies to contribute to global disaster management. The government submitted a statement to a joint ministerial body of the IMF and the Word Bank, known as the Development Committee, in Tokyo on Saturday. The statement says last year's earthquake and tsunami reminded the world community of the importance of disaster risk management. It says natural disasters take a heavy toll on the lives of the people....273
Written on 09 October 2012, 21.48 by
(CNN) -- North Korea said Tuesday its missiles can reach the U.S. mainland -- days after South Korea announced a deal with the United States to extend its missile range.
The strike zone of North Korean rocket forces includes "not only the bases of the puppet forces and the U.S. imperialist aggression forces' bases in the inviolable land of Korea, but also Japan, Guam and the U.S. mainland," the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.
But some analysts questioned the claim.
"That's been a...395
Written on 02 October 2012, 22.45 by
Six crew members have been arrested from the two boats that collided in the waters off Hong Kong on Monday night leaving 37 people dead.
"Police arrested six individuals this afternoon. They are being investigated for endangering people's lives at sea," Security Minister Lai Tung-kwok said.
One of the boats was carrying more than 120 people to a fireworks display when it half-sank following the collision near Lamma Island.
The search for survivors is continuing.
The crash happened about 20:30...350
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