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20 Nov 09 visit China's Wen welcomes new EU president post BEIJING : Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday congratulated the European Union for creating the new posts of president and foreign policy chief, calling it a "step forward" for EU integration.
20 Nov 09 visit TCM may be another alternative in fight against H1N1 HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chinese medicine practitioners are collaborating with a Macau university to test what they believe is another alternative to combating the H1N1 virus.
20 Nov 09 visit Foreign Minister Yeo addresses 3,000 Chinese entrepreneurs in Manila MANILA: Overseas Chinese businessmen have a role to play in leading economies out of the current recession, said Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo in an address at the 10th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention (WCEC) in Manila on Friday.
20 Nov 09 visit Chinese defence chief to visit North Korea BEIJING: Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie will visit North Korea soon, state-run media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks.
20 Nov 09 visit China orders more accurate H1N1 flu tallies BEIJING: China has ordered more accurate reporting of H1N1 flu deaths after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak claimed the true number of fatalities was being covered up.
19 Nov 09 visit China tightens supervision of online games BEIJING : China has vowed to tighten supervision of its fast-growing online games market, saying some games contained content that was "harmful" to players.
19 Nov 09 visit Japan, China agree to improve military, political exchanges TOKYO - The foreign ministers of Japan and China agreed Thursday to advance political and military exchanges in a bid to foster mutual trust, a Japanese diplomat said.
19 Nov 09 visit Beijing moves to quash rumours of unsafe H1N1 jabs BEIJING: Beijing authorities have moved to quash rumours fuelled by bogus text messages that the city would suspend H1N1 flu vaccinations, amid safety concerns after two people died following inoculations.
19 Nov 09 visit Afghan minister accused of major bribery WASHINGTON : Afghanistan's minister of mines accepted a 30-million-dollar bribe to award a huge development project to a Chinese state firm, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing a US official.
17 Nov 09 visit US, China stress cooperation on world issues BEIJING: US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao Tuesday pledged to apply their joint political might to the world's toughest problems, but friction was evident on Tibet, economics and Iran.
17 Nov 09 visit Insistence on bilingualism in early years of education policy was wrong: MM Lee SINGAPORE: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said his insistence on bilingualism in the early years of education policy was wrong. Instead it caused generations of students to be put off by the Chinese language.
17 Nov 09 visit 4 universities collaborate with SCCL to improve quality of Chinese teaching SINGAPORE: The Singapore Centre for Chinese Language is collaborating with the Media Development Authority (MDA), SIM University (UniSIM), the University of Hong Kong and NTUC's SEED Institute to improve Chinese teaching standards.
17 Nov 09 visit Grandchildren of Mao, Chiang Kai-shek meet in Taiwan TAIPEI: The grandchildren of Chinese communist icon Mao Zedong and his arch rival Chiang Kai-shek met in Taiwan in a rare encounter mirroring warming ties between Beijing and Taipei, a report said on Tuesday.
17 Nov 09 visit Obama vows positive, cooperative ties with China BEIJING: The United States and China on Tuesday agreed to cooperate on a host of issues from climate change to North Korea as US President Barack Obama pledged positive and comprehensive ties with Beijing.
17 Nov 09 visit NKorea reportedly kidnapped Chinese in refugee crackdown SEOUL: Pyongyang's agents over the past decade abducted about 200 Chinese citizens as part of a campaign to stop people from fleeing North Korea, a news report said on Tuesday.
17 Nov 09 visit China's Internet users hail Obama's Web show BEIJING: Chinese Internet users have hailed the webcast town hall meeting held by Barack Obama, expressing hopes the US president can help them convince authorities to tear down the "Great Firewall of China".
17 Nov 09 visit China fuels US foreign student boom WASHINGTON: Soaring interest by Chinese students has led to record foreign enrolment at US universities, offering a potential boon to the United States both economically and politically, a study said.
17 Nov 09 visit China's landslide death toll rises to 23 BEIJING: The death toll in a massive landslide in north China rose to 23 on Tuesday, as rescuers battled through the night to clear debris in an apparently fruitless search for survivors, state media reported.
17 Nov 09 visit Obama, Hu set for key talks in Beijing BEIJING: US President Barack Obama will on Tuesday attack the formal business of his visit to China, sitting down with his opposite number Hu Jintao for talks centred on trade tensions and US calls for a stronger yuan.
15 Nov 09 visit Obama arrives in China for maiden visit SHANGHAI - US President Barack Obama arrived in China late Sunday for his first visit to the Asian giant -- a three-day mission aimed at convincing Beijing that Washington is its partner, not its rival.
15 Nov 09 visit APEC rejects protectionism, pledges new growth model SINGAPORE - APEC leaders including the US and Chinese presidents Sunday vowed to reject trade protectionism and to pursue a new strategy for growth after the world's worst economic crisis in decades.
14 Nov 09 visit China, Russia presidents hail relations SINGAPORE : The presidents of historically mistrustful neighbours China and Russia Saturday hailed the strength of Sino-Russian ties as they met on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore.
14 Nov 09 visit Figure Skating: Shen-Zhao lead pairs at Skate America LAKE PLACID, New York : Chinese veterans Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, fresh from victory in the Cup of China, seized the pairs lead at Skate America with a dominant performance in the short programme.
14 Nov 09 visit Obama vows to deepen US engagement in Asia TOKYO: Billing himself America's first "Pacific president", Barack Obama Saturday said the United States did not seek to "contain" China and promised a full US role in charting Asia's future.
14 Nov 09 visit Two die in China after H1N1 flu vaccine BEIJING: Two people died after they were inoculated with the H1N1 flu vaccine in China, health authorities reported, amid wariness among the Chinese about the quality of the shot.
14 Nov 09 visit China's Hu meets with top Taiwan politician Lien Chan SINGAPORE - China's President Hu Jintao met with top Taiwan politician Lien Chan on Saturday, a Chinese official told AFP, in rare talks expected to have covered a landmark trade agreement.
13 Nov 09 visit Chinese President Hu a crowd-puller SINGAPORE: With many political leaders in town, there was also a fair bit of star gazing at the APEC meeting venue at Suntec Convention Centre.
13 Nov 09 visit S'pore gets first glimpse of China-loaned giant pandas SINGAPORE: China Wildlife Conservation Association has released the photos of the two giant pandas which will make their way to Singapore in 2011 under a research loan from the Chinese government.
12 Nov 09 visit Snow wreaks havoc in north China BEIJING: Heavy snows in northern China wreaked havoc for the third day running on Thursday, killing at least eight people, stranding thousands of motorists and disrupting air travel, state media reported.
11 Nov 09 visit IndoChina poised to benefit from spillover effects from China's growth SINGAPORE: IndoChina is poised to benefit from spillover effects from Asia's main economic growth engine - China.
11 Nov 09 visit China to loan two pandas to Singapore for 10-year period SINGAPORE : China will also be loaning two baby pandas to Singapore for a 10-year period, as part of a collaboration between the China Wildlife Conservation Association and Wildlife Reserves Singapore to mark the 20th anniversary of Sino-Singapore...
11 Nov 09 visit Chinese President Hu in Singapore for first state visit SINGAPORE : Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Singapore for his first state visit to the country.
11 Nov 09 visit Gambling hub Macau faces prospect of no water HONG KONG: Macau could run out of drinking water in a matter of weeks as the gambling haven's supply dries up due to a severe drought in southern China, officials said on Wednesday.
10 Nov 09 visit Chinese President Hu in Malaysia for bilateral talks KUALA LUMPUR: Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Malaysia on Tuesday on a brief visit, before heading for the APEC summit in Singapore.
10 Nov 09 visit Dalai Lama tours near Tibet as Beijing fumes TAWANG, India: The Dalai Lama on Tuesday held a second mass prayer meeting close to India's border with Tibet, as China took a fresh swipe at his week-long tour of the Arunachal Pradesh region.
10 Nov 09 visit Flights cancelled as Beijing blanketed in snow BEIJING - Nearly 70 flights were cancelled and more than 30 delayed at Beijing's airport Tuesday after the second major snow storm of the season blanketed the Chinese capital, airport officials said.
10 Nov 09 visit More Chinese O-level students taking Higher CL SINGAPORE: More students are taking Higher Chinese at O-level. Last year, they formed 27 percent of O-level Chinese candidates. This is double the proportion from a decade ago.
09 Nov 09 visit Huis ethnic group in China moderate in outlook NINGXIA, China : The Hui minority is one of the largest ethnic groups in China.
09 Nov 09 visit Low Teo Ping named Chef de Mission for 16th Asian Games SINGAPORE: The Singapore National Olympic Council has appointed Low Teo Ping as the Chef de Mission of the Singapore contingent to the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou next year.
08 Nov 09 visit China President Hu to make 3-day visit to Singapore next week SINGAPORE: China's President Hu Jintao will make a three-day state visit to Singapore next week at the invitation of Singaporean President S R Nathan, in conjunction with the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.
08 Nov 09 visit Dalai Lama visits Indian border state despite China protest TAWANG, India: The Dalai Lama visited a remote Tibetan monastery in northeast India on Sunday at the start of a trip that has infuriated China, which claims the surrounding Himalayan region as its own.
08 Nov 09 visit Dalai Lama visits Indian monastery despite China protest TAWANG, India - The Dalai Lama visited a remote Tibetan monastery in northeast India on Sunday at the start of a trip that has infuriated China, which claims the surrounding Himalayan region as its own.
08 Nov 09 visit Two kids die in flat fire believed to have started by dad SINGAPORE: A 39-year-old Chinese man is believed to have set fire to his flat on Saturday night before falling to his death.
07 Nov 09 visit Chinese PM reaches out to Muslims CAIRO : Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiaobao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticised for the treatment of its own Muslim minority.
07 Nov 09 visit China says not courting Africa only for energy BEIJING: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao denied that Beijing was developing ties in Africa purely to satisfy its need for energy, as he headed for talks with the continent's leaders, according to state media.
07 Nov 09 visit US expresses support for Dalai Lama's visit to Indian state NEW DELHI: The United States has given its backing to a visit by the Dalai Lama to a remote Buddhist region in India that is claimed by China, according to reports.
06 Nov 09 visit Japan seeks closer Southeast Asian ties with Mekong summit TOKYO: Japan from Friday hosts the leaders of Southeast Asia's five Mekong River nations as the world's number two economy looks to deepen ties with the resource-rich region amid growing influence from China.
06 Nov 09 visit Mafia twins jailed for 17 years in China BEIJING : A court in southwest China on Friday sentenced a pair of 23-year-old twins to 17 years in prison in the latest rulings in a series of sensational organised crime trials that have gripped the nation.
06 Nov 09 visit Uighur leader to visit former Guantanamo detainees KOROR: Exiled Chinese Muslim leader Rebiya Kadeer will travel to Palau as soon as next week to visit six fellow Uighurs released from Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman for the men said on Friday.
06 Nov 09 visit S'pore-China-Korea co-production first film to get MDA's International Film Fund funding SINGAPORE: A Singapore-China-Korean production has become the first film to receive support under the International Film Fund.

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