| 50,000 in South Korea protest against U.S. beef imports | |
South Korean police estimate 50,000 people turned out in Seoul Saturday in the latest protest against the resumption of U.S. beef...
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| G-8 leaders presented with $1,000 sake cups |
The Group of Eight (G-8) leaders attending a summit here in Japan are receiving gifts of intricate lacquered sake cups engraved with their initials and with a retail value of $1,000...
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| Russia to discuss peace treaty with Japan |
Moscow, July 6 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda the conclusion of a peace treaty between the two countries that has been held up since the end of the World War...
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| G-8 goes green in Japan |
A brand new Toyota 'plug-in' Prius is parked near a sleek-looking, hydrogen-powered RX-8 Mazda and eight more environmentally friendly...
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| Taiwan aborigines to perform at Beijing Olympics |
Taiwan aborigines have been invited to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a newspaper said...
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| Building collapse kills eight in China |
Wuhan (China), July 6 (Xinhua) At least eight people have been killed and 13 injured in a building collapse in central China, officials have...
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| Australia bats for Test championship |
Cricket Australia (CA) has strongly backed the inclusion of a Test Championship in the international schedule after the current Futures Tours Programme (FTP) ends in...
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| Manmohan Singh to leave for G-8 summit in Japan on Monday |
New Delhi, July 6 : Prime Minister Manamohan Singh would leave for G-8 summit in Hokkaido in Japan on Monday where he is expected to meet US President George W....
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| G-8 head for Japan to deal with series of crises |
London, July 6 : When the Group of Eight leaders and their counterparts from India, China, South Africa and Brazil gather in the Japanese resort towns of Sapporo and Hokkaido from Monday, they will be tasked with the responsibility of formulating exacting guidelines for dealing with a host of global problems, including rising food and oil costs, an uncertain global economy, climate change and Zimbabwe's political...
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| Indian media team to visit Lhasa |
New Delhi, July 5 : A team of Indian journalists is making a goodwill visit to China from July...
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| Ping-Pong diplomacy across the Taiwan Strait |
KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan : From six table tennis tables at the Olympic training center here comes the rhythmic clack-clack-clack of ball against paddle against tabletop. Outside, the tropical heat of...
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| PML-N for probe into Kargil issue |
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N, a key constituent of Pakistan's ruling coalition, on Sunday demanded setting up of a commission to probe the Kargil conflict in the wake of PPP chief Asif Ali Zardari's...
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| 21 dead in accident at northern China coal mine; rescuers save 4 workers |
BEIJING (AP) - A state news agency says 21 workers are dead after an accident at a coal mine in northern China. Xinhua (shin-wah) News Agency says four miners were saved by rescuers, while seven...
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| Betancourt to write on hostage ordeal |
PARIS: Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt retreated on Sunday from the media glare for a few days with her newly reunited family, before returning to Colombia to write a play about her ...
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| Two cruise lines plan Taiwan Strait services |
Taipei - Two international cruise lines, encouraged by Taiwan's new air links with China, plan to launch cruise services across the Taiwan Strait, it was reported Sunday. Royal Caribbean...
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| China to suspend some heavy industry as Games near |
BEIJING : With Beijing struggling to clear polluted skies before the Olympics in August, the nearby industrial port of Tianjin has ordered 40 factories to suspend some operations for two months as...
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| U.S. finds many foes are worth talking to |
In April 1959, Fidel Castro, fresh from his victory roll through the streets of Havana, came to the United States on a charm offensive. A youthful Castro - he was only 32 - hired a public relations...
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| Olympics, climate change draw Bush |
TOYAKO, Japan (AP) - President Bush is in Japan for tomorrow's start of the G-Eight summit. It's the eighth and final 1 of his presidency Today is also Bush's 62nd birthday. At a news conference...
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| Panda moved after China quake gives birth to twins |
7/6/2008, 9:13 a.m. EDT BEIJING (AP) — An apparent blast at a coal mine in northern China killed 21 workers, a state news agency reported...
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| Disappearance of key witness compounds Malaysia murder intrigue |
Malaysia has issued an international alert for a missing private investigator after he made, and abruptly retracted, allegations about the deputy prime minister's links to a high-profile murder...
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| Japan too strong for Hockeyroos again |
The Australian women's hockey team has suffered another disappointing loss to Japan in an Olympic Games warm-up tournament.The home side triumphed 3-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series at...
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| 16 trapped, 1 killed in China coal mine |
7/6/2008, 9:13 a.m. EDT BEIJING (AP) — An apparent blast at a coal mine in northern China killed 21 workers, a state news agency reported...
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| Britain calls for sanctions on defiant Mugabe |
JOHANNESBURG: Britain called for tough action as well as talk in the face of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's defiance and signs of disunity among his opposition. British Foreign Secretary...
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| Bush defends North Korea |
RUSUTSU, Japan : President George W. Bush arrived on the lush and mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Sunday for a gathering of world leaders that is to focus on climate change,...
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| Reality show contestant expelled over porn |
SANTIAGO: So much for "love is blind." A contestant has been expelled from a popular Chilean TV dating show after he was found to have had previous acting experience -- in a pornographic movie. ...
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| Malaysia hunts for sex claim man |
Malaysian police have launched an international hunt for a private investigator who accused a top politician of sexual misconduct. Balasubramaniam Perumal vanished after retracting a claim that...
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| Protests smothered as leaders arrive for G8 summit in Japan |
Riot police escort G8 protesters in Sapporo, Japan. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty George Bush and the Japanese prime minister have used the beginning of the G8 summit to insist they will both...
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| Rainstorms kill at least 14 in southern China |
Beijing - Severe rainstorms have killed at least 14 people, left seven missing and destroyed hundreds of homes in southern and central China, state media said on Sunday. At least eight people died...
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| At Group of 8 summit, Bush defends decision on North Korea |
TOYAKO, Japan : President George W. Bush arrived on the lush and mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Sunday for a gathering of world leaders that is to focus on climate change,...
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| Bush to attend Beijing Olympics opening ceremony |
RUSUTSU: U.S. President George W. Bush said on Sunday it would be an ``affront to the Chinese people'' if he did not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Bush, after meeting...
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| Japan blankets island with security for G8 |
TOYAKO--More than 20,000 police on Sunday sealed a secluded mountain resort in northern Japan as the world's top leaders gathered, with protests kept far away from the summit venue. Japan imposed a...
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| South Korea to limit public servants |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will limit vehicle operations by public servants as part of an energy-saving campaign. Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said Sunday that officials in more...
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| 5.7 magnitude quake shakes islands north of Japan |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the largely uninhabited Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological...
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| Bush, Fukuda lay out goals for G-8 summit in Japan |
TOYAKO, Japan (AP) — Global challenges like soaring oil prices and the Earth's rising temperature await President Bush at a summit of top industrialized nations, but first he set out to...
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| French president says China, India and other emerging nations should be invited to G-8 summit |
PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sahr-koh-ZEE') says that it is neither reasonable nor fair for the world's top eight industrialized nations to hold summits without including emerging...
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| S Korea sets fuel-saving measures |
South Korea has announced the first in a series of measures intended to tackle the cost of rising fuel prices. Thousands of public sector vehicles will only be allowed on the road on alternate days...
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| G8 protests in Japan; police arrest four |
SAPPORO, Japan (AP) - Four people have been arrested at an occassionally violent rally in Japan today protesting next week's G-Eight summit between President Bush and the leaders of 7 other...
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| Moderate earthquake jolts Japan, no injuries |
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Meteorological Agency says a moderately strong earthquake has jolted the Tokyo area. There are no reports of injuries or damage from the magnitude 5.1 quake. The agency says...
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| China Olympic city battles "invading" algae |
QINGDAO, China (Reuters) - In China's Olympic co-host city Qingdao, sea breezes that usually bring relief from baking summer temperatures now bring a cloying stench from a massive algae bloom that...
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| Reader postcard from China |
seattletimes.com/weekendphotos . Selected photos will appear here or in the "Pix From My Weekend" feature in The Seattle Times' NWWeekend section published each Thursday. See Travel Postcard and Pix...
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| Australia faces worse, more frequent droughts-study |
PERTH (Reuters) - Australia could experience more severe droughts and they could become more frequent in the future because of climate change, a government-commissioned report said on...
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| Bush arrives in Japan for G8; oil, climate in focus |
CHITOSE, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Japan on Sunday for the Group of Eight rich nations' meetings where North Korea's nuclear weapons program, soaring oil and food...
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| Business Development Asia LLC Advises Molex Inc on Acquiring AFlextech Inc, Taiwan |
Business Development Asia LLC ("BDA") is pleased to announce that Molex Inc (NASDAQ: MOLX and MOLXA), a global electronic components company, has acquired Taiwan-based AFlextech Inc...
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| Japan summit to test G8 leaders on climate change, world economy and security |
When the leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations gather in Hokkaido, Japan, this week for their annual summit, they face the challenge of showing greater resolve to fight global...
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| 650 schools in China |
Chinese engineers have begun installing lightning rods in 650 primary and secondary schools in underdeveloped areas to prevent casualty and economic loss in schools, as part of a national disaster...
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| Betancourt video shows duped rebels |
Watch ) The would-be envoys had honed their accents in acting lessons: Italian, Arab, Caribbean Spanish, and Australian English - "identical to Crocodile Dundee", Colombian defence...
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| Mbeki to attend G-8 outreach session in Japan |
South African President Thabo Mbeki would attend the Africa Outreach three-day session of the Group of eight (G-8) summit held in Hokkaido in Japan, the South Africa Department of Foreign Affairs...
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| NTDTV's China Broadcast Should Resume |
Dutch European Parliament member Erik Meijer of the socialist party (SP) has demanded that the European commission use its influence to restore New Tang Dynasty Television's (NTDTV) broadcast to...
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| Australia PM says committed to carbon trade schedule |
PERTH (Reuters) - Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday he saw no case for delaying the startup of a carbon trading scheme beyond 2010, adding that the Reserve Bank saw no inflationary...
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| South Korea moves to cut oil consumption |
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Sunday it would restrict driving of cars owned by public organizations from this week as part of contingency measures aimed at reducing energy consumption in the...
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