Clinton comments, Korea drills roil US-China ties The Himalayan | TAIPEI: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's thinly veiled criticism of Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea has angered Beijing's leadership and quietly pleased Asian countries concerned about China's expanding military power. | Clinton spoke less than 48 hours before American a...
Clinton comments, Korea drills roil US-China ties Houston Chronicle | TAIPEI, Taiwan - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's thinly veiled criticism of Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea has angered Beijing's leadership and quietly pleased Asian countries concerned about China's expanding military power. | Clinton spoke less than 48 hours before A...
Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped The Guardian | CHI-CHI ZHANG | Associated Press Writer= BEIJING (AP) — Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege many area...
Budget Chief Tried to Tilt Power to Executive Branch The New York Times | WASHINGTON — There probably won’t be a lot of gift baskets or teary farewells from House Democrats when Peter Orszag officially steps down as White House budget director on Friday. This partly reflects the friction that always exists be...
European Markets Slip on Concerns About U.S. The New York Times | European exchanges traded in a narrow range Wednesday amid signs that the recent rally may be running out of steam because of concerns about a recovery in the United States. | Asian stocks closely sharply higher, however, on optimism over the regio...
Cambodia's Troubled Tribunal The New York Times | Cambodia’s war crimes court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, or ECCC, deserves credit for convicting Kaing Guek Eav, better known as “Duch,” for war crimes and sentencing him to 35 years in prison. But Duch w...
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Unease in Tibet Over Influx of China's Money and Migrants Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | LHASA, Tibet -- They come by new high-altitude trains, four a day, cruising 1,200 miles past snow-capped mountains. And they come by military truck convoy, lumbering across the r...
China ratcheting up regional tension Asahi News | In flexing its military muscle commensurate with its growing economic might, Beijing is causing tensions to rise dramatically in the South China Sea. | This is partly due to conf...
Typhoon Chanthu lashes flood-hit southern China Daily Star Lebanon | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Friday, July 23, 2010 | - Powered by | CHONGQING: Typhoon Chanthu lashed southern China on Thursday with punishing winds and heavy rain in the lat...
China Starts Looking Beyond Its Era of Breakneck Growth Wall Street Journal By ANDREW BATSON And BOB DAVIS | DASHIMEN VILLAGE, China—In this corn-growing hamlet in northern China, signs are emerging that the nation's supercharged economic growth may be reaching its limit. | A bottomless pool of inexpensive migrant labo...
Asian markets mostly lower as China stocks fall Herald Tribune | TOKYO - Asian markets were mostly lower Tuesday as a tumble in Chinese stocks tempered optimism from U.S. aluminum maker Alcoa's earnings. | A slew of American companies release quarterly results in the coming weeks and Alcoa's result spurred hopes...
China flexes its naval muscle Asia Times | Jul 9, 2010 China flexes its naval muscle | By Peter J Brown | China this week again used the East China Sea as a setting for military maneuvers and exercises that it knew would rattle the United States and its allies. Afte...
China flood death toll nears 1,000 Al Jazeera | China's worst flooding in more than a decade has killed nearly 1,000 people across the country and stranded tens of thousands in the northeast without power. | The state-run flood control office said 928 people have been killed since the rainy season began in May and 477 others are missing. | More heavy rains were expected for the south...
Jollibee sets up commissary in China Malaya | Jollibee Foods Corp. (Jollibee) said it is putting up a new commissary in China to supply products to its food business in that country. | Jollibee’s unit Jollibee Worldwide Pte. Ltd. signed the joint venture agreement with Hua Xia Harvest Holdings Pte. Ltd. of Singapore for the commissary valued at P340.34 million. They also established unit J...
