India China have differences but will be together Li

Asia Pacific News.Net - Monday 20th May, 2013

India and China do have "difficult issues left over from history" but are destined to exist together, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in a published article Monday. Writing in The Hindu newspaper, Li warned that there would be no Asian century if India and China failed to live in harmony and achieve common development. "There is no denying that China and India still have between them some ...

India-China consensus big stride forward Li

Asia Pacific News.Net - Monday 20th May, 2013

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 ...

Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

Asia Pacific News.Net - Monday 20th May, 2013

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 ...

India China border experts will meet soon

Asia Pacific News.Net - Monday 20th May, 2013

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 ...

Australian construction industry to see slow recovery

Asia Pacific News.Net - Monday 20th May, 2013

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 ...

Massive Tornado Hits Oklahoma Again

VOA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A huge tornado with 320 kilometers-per-hour winds has torn through the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying homes for the second day in a row ...

Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Conference

VOA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Tuesday with the sultan of Oman, on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange a Syrian peace ...

Man arrested for hoax bomb calls that ground five planes in China

whatsonsanya - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A man who allegedly made bomb threat calls yesterday and disrupted five domestic flights to Shenzhen was arrested early this morning by police. Shenzhen police said the suspect, surnamed Wang, made six hoax calls to several flights yesterday morning. The arrest was made at 3:15am today, police said. Wang allegedly had confessed to making all the calls, according to police. Police so far ...

8 arrested over SW China river pollution

Global Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Eight people have been arrested in connection with illegal dumping activities that polluted a local waterway in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, prosecutors said Tuesday.The Yunnan Provincial People's Procuratorate has approved the eight arrests on charges of polluting the environment, a statement issued by the procuratorate said.The legal representatives of three ore dressing or ...

Six wounded in S. Philippine bombing

Global Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Six people were wounded after leftist rebels detonated bombs along a national highway in southern Philippines on Tuesday, the military said.The incident along the Pan-Philippine highway in Magdum village, Tagum City, Davao del Norte province, at around 6 a.m. local time injured five soldiers and a civilian woman, according to Lt. Vilma Mojado, spokesperson for the 10th civil military operations ...

Chinas market-oriented reform battles crises

China.org.cn - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The first one is the crisis stemming from the reform of the pricing system. During the initial period of the reform, a double track pricing system was in place, meaning some commodities were priced by the government, and others priced by enterprises according to market demand. The system brought about pricing differences of the same ...

Japans Crown Prince to Visit Spain to Mark Bilateral Ties

Bahrain News Agency - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tokyo, May 21 (BNA) - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito will make an official visit to Spain next month, to mark the 400th anniversary of bilateral ties between the two nations, Japan's (NHK World) reported. A Japanese mission was sent to Spain in 1613 from what is now Sendai City, by powerful feudal war lord Date Masamune. Various commemorative events are scheduled in both countries ...

Building Collapse in SE China

Bahrain News Agency - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Beijing, May 21 (BNA) - A building collapsed in southeast China's Fujian Province on Monday afternoon, no one was killed or injured, China's News Agency (Xinhua) reported. The four-storey building in downtown Fuzhou, capital city of Fujian, was being renovated when it collapsed, according to sources with the municipal committee of the Communist Party of China. All the construction ...

Fiji wants greater MSG economic integration

ABC Australia - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Fiji Fiji's acting prime minister, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has urged Melanesian countries to consider forming a common economic union.He has told at a meeting of trade ministers from the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in Nadi that free trade between Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea is the future.Mr Sayed-Khaiyum says Fiji's trade with Pacific Island nations has seen ...

Meat exports could be allowed into China within days

TVNZ - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Source: ONE Sport Exports of New Zealand meat could be allowed into China again within the next few days. Meat exports have been blocked from entering the country since the end of April, and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has made resolving the issue its "number one priority". ...

Li says China will allow greater access to Indian business

The Standard - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

(52 mins ago) Premier Li Keqiang who is visiting India pledged to open up domestic markets to Indian businesses and narrow a gaping trade deficit between the two countries. ';As for Indian concerns over the trade deficit, the Chinese side is willing to provide facilitations for more Indian products to access the Chinese market,'' Li said during a speech to Indian business ...

India China have not shied away from addressing the boundary question Chinese Premier

NDTV - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang addressed university students at a function organised by the ICWA at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi.Here are the ...

India China have wisdom to address bounday issue Li

Times of India - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...

India and China end standoff withdraw troops Media

SINA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

India and China simultaneously withdrew troops from camps a few meters apart in a Himalayan desert on Sunday, apparently ending a three-week standoff on a freezing plateau where the border is disputed. The two sides stood down after reaching an agreement during a meeting between border commanders, an Indian army official told Reuters, after the tension threatened to overshadow a planned visit ...

ASEAN defense ministers to meet on security issues

SINA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) will hold its Seventh Defense Ministerial Meeting (ADMM),the highest defense mechanism within the group, here from May 6 to 8, according to an announcement posted on the government website Wednesday. The annual ADMM facilitates a discussion and exchange of views on current defense and security issues and ...

Japan mayor says S. Korean troops guilty of sex abuse

West Australian - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

TOKYO (AFP) - 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 necessity.In a remark likely to fuel outrage and further stoke tensions in an already uneasy relationship, Toru Hashimoto said the South Korean military used women for sex to keep servicemen's ...

Taiwan networkingcommunication device makers see decreasing profit-to-RD spending ratio

Digitimes - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Seven main Taiwan-based networking/communication device makers saw the average ratio of pre-tax profit to R&D expenditure continually decline from 0.87 for 2010 to 0.45 for first-quarter 2013, their financial reports have ...