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Charges Pressed After Unsettling Torch Relay
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:09:00 PM
Five pro-China Chinese nationals and two supporters of human rights in Tibet will appear in the Australia Capital Territory (ACT) Magistrates Court later this week following their arrest during the Au ...   Full Story
 

Japan Again Finds Pesticide-Contaminated Chinese Dumplings
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:20:00 PM
Japan police said on April 28 they had discovered a high concentration of the pesticide methamidophos in another package of dumplings imported from China.   Full Story
 

East Timor Rebel Leader Surrenders
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:10:00 AM
DILI—The leader of a group of East Timor rebels accused of trying to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta surrendered on Tuesday, raising hopes that the troubled young nation can find some rare stab ...   Full Story
 

Torch Faces South Korea Protests
Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:30:00 PM
SEOUL—The Olympic flame arrived in Seoul on Sunday to start a two-day journey on the divided Korean peninsula where it is expected to be met with protests in the South and cheers of fawning masses in ...   Full Story
 

Constitution at Center of Battle to Control Thailand
Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:20:00 PM
BANGKOK—Even by the standards of Thailand's untouchable elite, it was considered bad form.A decorated policeman was shot dead in a Bangkok bar in 2001 after a fracas with the son of a top polit ...   Full Story
 

Rice Price Surge Frustrates and Puzzles Asians
Friday, April 25, 2008 8:10:00 PM
MANILA—From the air-conditioned supermarkets of Tokyo to the open-air stalls of Manila reactions across Asia to record leaps in the price of rice vary from fear and frustration to a nonplussed shrug o ...   Full Story
 

Chinese Embassy Secretly Organizes Overseas Chinese Students to Support Olympic Torch Relay in Japan
Friday, April 25, 2008 8:30:00 AM
JAPAN—Chinese Student and Scholar Associations (CSSA) in Japanese universities have received notice from the Chinese Embassy, asking them to mobilize all possible manpower to Nagano on April 26 to sup ...   Full Story
 

Heavy Rain Disrupts Malaysian Leg of Olympic Torch Relay
Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:11:00 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—The Malaysian leg of 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay has completed on Monday afternoon in Kuala Lumpur with heightened security, few protests and heavy rain.Extremely tight ...   Full Story
 

U.S. Seeks Tougher U.N. Statement on Burma
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:39:00 PM
UNITED NATIONS—The United States Wednesday circulated a new and tougher draft statement to the U.N. Security Council scolding Burma (called Myanmar by the ruling junta) for ignoring U.N. demands to fr ...   Full Story
 

Olympic Torch Relay in Indonesia on Grim Trip
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:33:00 PM
JAKARTA—The Olympic torch was paraded through a heavily guarded stadium in Jakarta on Tuesday after police stopped about 100 protesters from disrupting the latest leg of the torch's fraught journe ...   Full Story
 

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