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BEIJING: Even if its stand against censorship leads it to close its search engine in China, Google Inc. still hopes to maintain other key operations in the world’s most populous Internet market. Google is negotiating to keep its research center in China, an advertising sales team that generates most of the company’s revenue in the [...]
TOKYO: When Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates visited Japan’s new leaders in October, not long after their historic election, he pressed so hard and so publicly for a military base agreement that the Japanese news media labeled him a bully. The difference between that visit and the friendly welcome that a high-level Japanese delegation received [...]
BEIJING: Average living standards in Beijing improved in 2009, with per capita gross domestic product topping 10,000 dollars for the first time, official data showed Friday. The capital’s economy grew 10.1 percent on-year to 1.19 trillion yuan (174.3 billion dollars) — exceeding the national GDP growth rate of 8.7 percent according to figures published on [...]
BEIJING: Barely two weeks into the new year, U.S.-China relations are being roiled by old tensions over Taiwan, Tibet and trade, along with new irritations including Google’s charges it had been hacked and Pentagon concerns over the People’s Liberation Army’s massive buildup. The new friction in what is emerging as the world’s most crucial bilateral [...]
BEIJING: China has said it successfully tested a missile intercept system, in what analysts said was a show of its advanced air defence capabilities amid tensions over US arms sales to Taiwan, AFP reports. “China conducted a test on ground-based midcourse missile interception technology within its territory. The test has achieved the expected objective,” Xinhua [...]
BEIJING: As much of the world struggles to clamber out of a serious recession, a gradual flow of economic power from West to East has turned into a flood. New high points, it seems, are reached daily. China surged past the United States to become the world’s largest automobile market — in units, if not [...]
BEIJING: More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor. The study, by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, named the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem for [...]
BEIJING: Three dairy executives will be prosecuted this week in China for selling melamine-tainted milk, state-run media reported. The case has raised hackles and stirred memories of a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six babies and sickened about 300,000 others in China in 2008. But this case has nothing to do with the [...]
SYDNEY: Chinese energy giant PetroChina Co. Ltd. has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Australia, leaving Woodside Petroleum Ltd. looking for new customers. Reasons for letting the preliminary agreement lapse were not given, but analysts said Tuesday it was probably because PetroChinahad become dissatisfied with the [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: When the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, China and 10 Southeast Asian nations ushered in the world’s third-largest free-trade area. While many industries are eager for tariffs to fall on things as diverse as textiles, rubber, vegetable oils and steel, a few are nervously waiting to see whether the agreement will [...]
SHANGHAI: Chinese officials misused or embezzled about $35 billion in government money in the first 11 months of the year, according to a national audit released this week. The announcement is the latest indication of how widespread corruption has become among government agencies and how difficult it will be for Beijing to root it out. [...]
LONDON: Akmal Shaikh, the British man arrested in China over drug smuggling, has been executed, the British Foreign Office has confirmed. Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, condemned the execution “in the strongest terms” saying he was “appalled and disappointed that our persistent requests for clemency have not been granted.” Shaikh, 53, was killed – believed [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
