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February 09, 2012
We have received confirmation that zoo animal escape drills can be added to the Everything Is Cooler In Japan file.
February 09, 2012
BEIJING, China - The celebrity top cop relieved of his duties in a major Chinese city met officials at a U.S. consulate amid unconfirmed reports of an asylum bid, but then left the building, the U.S. State Department said. His whereabouts were unclear Thursday.
Poll suggests Canada wants China's help on the economy
February 09, 2012
BEIJING, China - A new poll suggests Canadians want China's help driving the economy, but don't want them in the driver's seat.
Video: Mom in central China gives birth to 15 pound baby
February 08, 2012
BEIJING, China - A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country's founding in 1949.
China vows to continue crackdown on Tibetan unrest
February 07, 2012
BEIJING, China - China on Tuesday vowed to crack down on unrest in Tibetan areas and accused overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the recent violence.
Reports: China's environmental crises and costs rising
February 07, 2012
SHANGHAI - Environmental accidents are on the rise in China, mainly due to chemicals industry-related traffic and industrial mishaps, and the costs of such damage to the economy are rising.
Harper names goodwill ambassador to China
February 07, 2012
BEIJING, China - The prime minister put some star power behind his high-level trip to China.
China asked to raise human rights with Harper
February 06, 2012
Aboriginals from British Columbia have asked China's president to quiz Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Canada's human rights record during his visit to the Asian country.
Harper heads to China to talk trade, energy
February 06, 2012
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to China today, and in addition to a political entourage, he's bringing along a who's-who of Canada's energy sector.
China bars its airlines from paying EU carbon tax
February 06, 2012
BEIJING, China - China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change.
Report says 3 set themselves on fire in China
February 05, 2012
BEIJING, China - Three more people have set themselves on fire to protest China's policies toward Tibetans in a politically sensitive area that already has seen ethnic violence this year, a media report and an activist group said.
Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria
February 04, 2012
The U.N. Security Council failed again Saturday to take decisive action to stop the escalating violence in Syria as Russia and China blocked a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for President Bashar Assad to step down. The double-veto outraged the U.S. and European council members who feared it would embolden the Assad regime.
Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria
February 04, 2012
Russia and China have vetoed a Security Council resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down.
China fires 7 officials after toxic cadmium spill
February 04, 2012
BEIJING, China - An environmental protection director and six other officials have been fired after a spill of toxic cadmium in a river in southern China threatened drinking water supplies for millions of people, news reports said Saturday.
Harper heads to China to talk trade
February 03, 2012
OTTAWA - The prime minister heads to China next week to talk trade and senior officials insist human rights will also be part of the discussion.
PM urged to press China on human rights
February 02, 2012
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's second trip China next week comes amid a renewed crackdown on dissent that highlights an issue his hosts would rather leave in the shadows: human rights.
Vietnam's awakening youth circumvent censorship
February 02, 2012
HANOI, Vietnam - When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw "Killer with a Festering Head" on someone's smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam's censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn't exactly hard.
China wants observer status at Arctic Council
February 02, 2012
MONTREAL - China may use the upcoming visit by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to try convincing him that it deserves a more prominent role in the Arctic.
China announces $2.5B fund for small businesses
February 01, 2012
BEIJING, China - China announced more help Wednesday for its struggling private business sector, unveiling a $2.5 billion fund to finance new small businesses and promising tax breaks and more lending for entrepreneurs.
D'Alessandro to stay at Inter despite China offer
January 30, 2012
SAO PAULO - Brazilian club Internacional says it has reached a deal to keep Argentine playmaker Andres D'Alessandro despite a good offer for him to play in China.
China boosts police presence in restless Xinjiang
January 30, 2012
BEIJING, China - Thousands of additional police officers are being dispatched to combat religious extremism and other security concerns in China's volatile, heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media reported Monday.
Book claims eldest son of Kim Jong-il wary of North Korean collapse
January 18, 2012
TOKYO - A new book claims that the eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il believes the impoverished regime is in danger of collapse and that his young half-brother, chosen to lead after Kim's death, is merely a figurehead.
Is it too much to hope for a 'Pyongyang Spring?'
December 21, 2011
The people of North Korea are wailing, bemoaning the death of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il. Now they’ll be ruled by Dear Leader’s son, "Great Successor" Kim Jong Un.
In Pictures: Defectors send anti-Kim leaflets into North Korea via balloon
December 21, 2011
As North Koreans packed a snowy Pyongyang square to mourn the death of Kim Jong-il, fellow North Koreans who have defected gathered near a South Korean border town to release balloons bearing anti-regime leaflets.
In Pictures: Shaking hands with Kim Jong-il
December 19, 2011
He may have been a derided pariah to much of the international community, but the late Kim Jong-il was still a head of state, which meant a long line of dignitaries found themselves part of a Kim dynasty photo-op with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
Video: North Koreans mourn Kim Jong-il with massive display of public wailing
December 19, 2011
The carefully nurtured cult of personality surrounding North Korea's tyrannical leadership was on full display in Pyongyang today as thousands turned out to publicly mourn the death of Kim Jong-il at the age of 69.
In Pictures: North Koreans mourn Kim Jong-il
December 19, 2011
The carefully nurtured cult of personality surrounding North Korea's tyrannical leadership was on full display in Pyongyang today as thousands turned out to publicly mourn the death of Kim Jong-il at the age of 69.
Video: Tearful news anchor announces Kim Jong-il's death
December 19, 2011
Kim Jong-il , who ruled North Korea since 1994, was pronounced dead by state media yesterday.
Yakuza: Japan's not so secret criminal underworld
December 01, 2011
Japan’s crime syndicates, the yakuza, are pictured as nine-fingered killers covered in elaborate full-body tattoos and wielding nunchuks.
Tory MP's affair was likely ‘sexpionage’
December 01, 2011
The Conservative government should have been more concerned when one of its MPs was exposed having a relationship with a reporter for China’s state news agency, says a defector from the country’s spy service.
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