From Arab News: India and Japan yesterday decided to cooperate closely to achieve their common ambition of a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wound up talks with Indian premier aimed at building a new partnership Both countries supported each other’s candidature for the all-powerful Security Council and agreed […]
Read MoreFrom The India Express: India and Japan instituted a strategic dialogue that was spelt out in the eight-fold initiative signed between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Koizumi on Friday. The dialogue is at the level of the National Security Advisor ” higher than the one between India and China ” which is at the Foreign […]
Read MoreFrom ETToday: On the 29th of April, both the White House and the U.S. State Department declined to offer a direct evaluation of the so-called “five-point consensus” reached in the meeting between Hu Jintao and Lien Chan. However, both urged Beijing to make efforts to communicate directly with President Chen Shui-bian. Scholars based in the […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadaily: An unidentified man wielding knife hijacked a Mercedez-Benz in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province Friday afternoon, taking a woman, the car driver, and her little son hostage. The gunman seized the luxury car in a blink after the woman picked up her son from the kindergarten, threatening her with the knife to drive. […]
Read MoreFrom bloomberg.com: Taiwan’s government, sidelined as China’s Communists court the island’s opposition Nationalists, criticized yesterday’s meeting in Beijing between the heads of both parties, even as a new poll shows the Taiwanese public is positive on the overtures. The Taiwan public is more enthusiastic about attempts at reconciliation, according to similar polls published today in […]
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