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N.Korea leader met Hu during China visit: state mediaSeoul (AFP) Aug 30, 2010 North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il met President Hu Jintao during his visit to China and stressed the need to preserve their countries' friendship for the "rising generation", state media said Monday. Analysts speculated that Kim, 68, visited his country's main ally and benefactor to seek support for an eventual transfer of power to his youngest son Jong-Un. The August 26-30 trip was shrouded in secrecy until Kim's train crossed the border, when the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and Ch ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2010At least four Tibetans may have been killed and 30 others hurt when Chinese police fired on crowds protesting the expansion of mine operations blamed for environmental damage, a report said Saturday. The shooting occurred August 17 in a remote region of southwestern China's Sichuan province with a history of seething unrest involving the area's Tibetan community, US-based Radio Free Asia sai ... more  
Seoul (UPI) Aug 27, 2010 Former President Jimmy Carter is returning to the United States from his North Korean "private humanitarian trip" with released American citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes. Carter arrived in North Korea Monday for discussions regarding Gomes, 31, from Boston. Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korea from China. Carter was met at the No ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 27, 2010South Korea expressed reservations Friday about China's proposal for an informal meeting between North Korea and the United States ahead of any resumption of six-party nuclear disarmament talks. China's visiting top nuclear envoy Wu Dawei has held a series of discussions with South Korean officials, briefing them on his trip to Pyongyang last week, a foreign ministry spokesman said. Wu, ... more |
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Cholera outbreak hits eastern ChinaBeijing (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 At least 30 people in eastern China have been stricken by cholera in recent weeks, with unsanitary food conditions believed to be behind the outbreak, state press said Sunday. Twenty people remain hospitalised with the disease, which has spread in Mengcheng county of Anhui province over the past two weeks, the Beijing Times reported, citing local health officials. Ten other patients have already left hospital, the report said. No deaths have yet been reported in the region. Cholera causes se ... read more |
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