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Are Japan and China inching closer to each other to start a new era of political and diplomatic bonhomie? The inhumane Japanese atrocities on the Chinese during the Second World War had embittered the Chinese towards Japan. However, with time being the best healer, both the countries seemed to have buried the past. After a decade, a Chinese President will be visiting Japan. Despite of best efforts by the two countries there are some contentious issues waiting to be resolved.
The latest flare-up between the two countries occurred when Japan’s health minister announced on January this year that 10 people in the country had died from food poisoning after eating Chinese-made dumplings. Japanese investigators seized six packets of dumplings and discovered traces of methamidophos, a lethal pesticide that is banned in both Japan and China. However, Chinese investigators failed to detect any trace of the lethal pesticides in the Chinese manufacturing plant in China. Wi...
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Leaders from 45 Asian and European nations and organizations began their summit in Beijing on Friday afternoon, with agenda to be dominated by tackling the global financial crisis.
The seventh Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)opens at the Great Hall of the PeopleinBeijingOct. 24, 2008.(Xinhua Photo)Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered a key-note speech at the opening ceremony after Premier [...]... more
40 European and Asian leaders meet to discuss crisis
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Friday 24th October, 2008
(Daniel Schearf )
Asian and European leaders are meeting in the Chinese capital to discuss ways to increase confidence in world markets.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has said uncertainties and instability are increasing in China’s economy as a result of the global financial crisis.
Leaders from over 40 European and Asian countries met in Beijing Friday to enc... more
Updated - 26/10/2008 - IANS.
Beijing, Chinese President Hu Jintao told Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday that the two countries should take their relations forward with far-sighted, strategic and long-term perspective and also properly handle each other’s concerns.
China and India have maintained sound relations and economic cooperation and collaborated in international affairs, Hu told Singh on the sidelines of the just concluded 7th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Beijing.
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Thursday, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso unveiled a new economic stimulus package, under which 5 trillion yen or $51 billion would be channeled to boost the world’s second largest economy via tax cuts, special benefits to households and small businesses, loan guarantees and reduction in highway tolls.... more
2% of all Cisco employees are in Tokyo, Japan. For this 2%, living and working at Cisco in Tokyo is a very different environment. This is what is going on in Tokyo, Japan.
Last Sunday, Tokyo housed the annual Kagurazaka Garcon Race, where 50 waiters carried drinks on trays for 300 meters. This race is one of 80 events in the Kagurazaka festival, which continues through November 3rd. ( Japan Times )
Prince Charles and wife Camilla of Britain spent five days in Tokyo this week. They were ... more
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Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to... more
Sunit_83: In a chilling message to the people of Pakistan and to the rest of the world, former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has hinted that President Musharraf could be hanged in the near future. Addressing a mass rally at the stroke of dawn on saturday at the end of a cross-country motorcade protest demanding the reinstatement of chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhury and other judges.
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The political scenario in Pakistan showed its ugly side yet again, with the former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif publicly acknowledging that his Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) is pulling out from the newly formed coalition government as no consensus between Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and his party could be reached to facilitate the reinstatement of the ousted judges (sacked by President Musharraf). This very ouster of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr If... more
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Above you see the picture of a young woman, Rukhma, who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan to Afghanistan with her three-year-old son. In Pakistan, Rukhma was married to an abusive man who fathered her son, Bilal. Rukhma divorced her husband and married another Pakistani man by whom she became pregnant last year. Then she was kidnapped by a neighbor and taken to Afghanistan where she was raped by an Afghan man for three months. One day she overheard the Afghan finalizing... more
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