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For six decades, China tried in vain to recover Taiwan with military force and political rhetoric. Now it has changed its tactics, by sending Taiwan a pair of giant pandas to win over the hearts of Taiwan people.
The tactic has worked even before the two panda bears arrived in Taipei Tuesday. In the past month, news about the two...
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Taiwan will amend a law to allow Chinese students attend universities in Taiwan in line with President Ma Ying-jeou's plan to ease tension with Beijing, a newspaper said on Sunday.
The United Daily News quoted said the Mainland Affairs Council has submitted the revised bill on cross-strait ties to parliament, hoping it can be passed...
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Russia's foreign minister added his voice to the controversy over South Ossetia's status hopes on Thursday. Georgia's separatist province, he said, has no intention of joining Russia, news agencies reported.
Sergei Lavrov interrupted a press conference in Poland, where he was discussing US missile defence plans, to clarify Moscow's...
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Simmering anger with the Indian government and its security forces over a land row in the Kashmir Valley has sparked a larger movement that has seen thousands of Kashmiri Muslims take to the streets to demand "azadi," or freedom, in non-violent protests over the past two weeks.
Protestor Shakeel Ahmed, a university student,...
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The Kosovo government named on Thursday its first ten diplomats for postings to diplomatic missions in the West.
Diplomats, among whom are former journalists, professors, scientists, civil activists and presidential advisers, will represent Kosovo in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Austria,...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday recognized the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
"Russia calls on other nations to recognize their independence. It is not an easy choice, but it is the only way to protect the lives of civilians," Medvedev said in a televized statement after...
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Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
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Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously to recognize Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday.
After an emergency meeting of the house, lawmakers issued a statement to President Dmitry Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically separate from Georgia.
The statement said...
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Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously to recognize the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday.
In an emergency meeting of the Federation Council, lawmakers issued an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev urging recognition of the two provinces that are ethnically separate from...
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Russian combat forces began a slow withdrawal from Georgia on Friday but were still operating road checkpoints deep in the country despite a pledge to leave by the end of the day.
The Russian general staff said that troops were "in the final stage of pulling back," but they would continue to hold buffer zones and maintain...
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The head of NATO is "seriously concerned" by the outbreak of fighting in Georgia and calls on all sides to return to the negotiating table, a statement released in Brussels said Friday.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is "seriously concerned about the events that are taking place in the Georgian region of...
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, the 135th day of 2008 with 231 to follow.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include English portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1727; Scottish reformer Robert Owen in 1771; opera...
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The U.S. administration
criticized Russia on Tuesday
for what it named a series of “provocative actions” in recent weeks in the
conflict between Moscow’s former republic of Georgia and its breakaway region of
Abkhazia, the Associated Press reports.
The White House blamed Russia
of escalating tensions over Abkhazia by...
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 It appears that the United
States and Russia
did not reach an agreement towards Washington’s
plans of deploying a missile defense shield in the east of Europe,
Reuters reports.
“The problem remains and consists of the fact that the
Americans are not giving up their plans to deploy a missile defense system in
eastern...
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Kenyan police Friday arrested 23 journalists and protestors demonstrating against a new media bill that many fear will curtail press freedom.
Police say they arrested the demonstrators, who were heading to the Nyayo national stadium where President Mwai Kibaki was speaking during a national holiday, because they did not announce the...
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The US will not review its policy of isolating Syria because Damascus has not moved far enough to allay US fears over its role in the Middle East, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Welch, said in an interview Wednesday.
Syria's move to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon is "a start" but...
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Talks between President Robert Mugabe and pro-democracy leader Morgan Tsvangirai over the share of government ministries between them were due to resume Friday for the fourth successive day, with no sign the deadlock could be resolved.
Even the usually optimistic Herald, the daily propaganda newspaper of Mugabe's ZANU(PF) party, said...
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Cambodian human rights group Licadho released 1,700 white balloons outside a prison in the capital Tuesday to draw attention to the plight of two men it said were wrongly convicted of the 2004 murder of a union leader.
The number of balloons represented the total days that Sok Sam Oeun and Born Samnang have served in jail for the...
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The body of late Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa arrived back home from Paris Saturday in a gold coffin draped in a Zambian flag to a sombre ceremony at Lusaka International Airport.
The plane touched down in overcast conditions at 9 am (0800 GMT) to a 21-gun salute and a fly-past by Zambia Air Force jets.
The mood of sorrow that...
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The Zambian government announced Friday that the country's late president Levy Mwanawasa would be buried on September 3 after his body had been taken around the country for public viewing.
The date had been chosen to coincide with Mwanawasa's birthday, secretary to the cabinet Dr Joshua Kanganja said.
Mwanawasa would have turned 60...
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Zambia's vice-president Rupiah Banda, 71, who was poised Tuesday to become acting president following the death of Zambia's leader of seven years, Levy Mwanawasa, is a career diplomat with a sideline in business.
Under the Zambian constitution, when a sitting president dies, the vice president automatically becomes president but must...
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai were due to resume critical talks on a powersharing government on Monday after failing to sign off on a deal at marathon negotiations in Harare Sunday.
Around 14 hours of talks between the two leaders under the mediation of South African President Thabo Mbeki...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe downplayed
the suspension of talks between his party and the opposition on a unity
government, echoing South African President Mbeki in assuring the
negotiations were going 'well.' 'We are still negotiating and
want success... Some areas are debatable but we debate. It is not easy
but I hear...
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The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said
Thursday he will seek to prosecute rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur
region just as he is prosecuting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur's ethnic
conflict. Moreno-Ocampo said the International Criminal Court
(ICC) based at The...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has
emphatically denied reports he expressed concern over moves to issue an
international arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Beshir for
genocide in Darfur. Reports on Sudanese radio that he had
expressed great concern over the application by International Criminal
Court (ICC) prosecutor...
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 The U.N. warned Tuesday that post-election violence in Zimbabwe was
rising to near crisis levels ahead of a planned presidential run-off, with
opposition supporters enduring the brunt of attacks, AFP reports. The statement
followed opposition leader’s Morgan Tsvangirai move to return home to contest
the election with veteran...
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 Nearly five weeks after Zimbabweans went to the polls in
order to choose their next president, there is a result. The figures, which
give the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai 47.9%, ahead of President Robert
Mugabe's 42.3%, mean that under the law there must now be a run-off. Tsvangirai
and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)...
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 Zimbabwe’s
opposition demanded a strike, in an attempt to force the officials to release
the results of last month’s presidential election. An election impasse began more
than two weeks ago, as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission repeatedly delayed
revealing results of the March 29 presidential vote.
The candidate from the...
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 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party claimed that is would contest the election results for 16 parliamentary seats, the Los Angeles Times reports. It appears that Mugabe also demanded to fight MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a runoff for the presidency. According to the opposition officials, Morgan Tsvangirai won the...
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 According to Zimbabwe’s
opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), its leader Morgan
Tsvangirai won the presidential election with 50.3 percent of the vote. However,
the official results have not yet been released.
MDC general secretary Tendai Biti claims that the result
shows that there is no need for an...
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 Voters across Zimbabwe held Saturday their
national elections, which include the presidential, parliamentary, senate and
local elections. Zimbabweans cast their ballots in order to decide whether
President Robert Mugabe should keep his function, after he caused the country’s
economic collapse. Mugabe is facing with the biggest...
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 Comoros
demanded on Thursday that France
extradite rebel leader Mohamed Bacar, who is wanted by the Indian Ocean
Archipelago for crimes against humanity. Troops had to fire teargas in order to
stop demonstrations against the former colonel.
The self-declared leader of the Anjouan
Island fled to the French-run island of...
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 The invasion by the African Union soldiers and federal
government to retake control of the Comoros
island of Anjouan from the rebel leader Colonel
Mohamed Bacar was completed, officials said.
“Anjouan island is under total control of the army,” Major Ahmed Sidi told
reporters at a joint press conference, according to Reuters. “So...
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 More than 12 persons were killed Friday after dozens of men belonging to opposing ethnic groups clashed on the streets of Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley.Media reports said groups of young men armed with machetes, bows and arrows attacked each other and set fire to numerous buildings in the strife-torn city.The...
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 Rival politicians traded accusations of inciting violence Wednesday, as
unrest sparked by disputed presidential polls continued across Kenya,
leaving at least 300 people dead.
President Mwai Kibaki and defeated opposition candidate Raila
Odinga blamed each other for the brutal violence that has seen nearly
300 people killed since...
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 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner Sunday amid reignited
violence around the country after a tight, tense race was marred by
allegations of fraud.
As Kibaki's supporters celebrated in the capital Nairobi,
pro-opposition protesters countrywide took to the streets charging the
vote was rigged.
Leaders had appealed...
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 Violence erupted around the Kenyan capital Nairobi as voters demanded
the electoral commission reveal the presidential election tally and
charged that the results - which put the top two contenders a few
hundred thousand votes apart - were rigged.
Mwai Kibaki, the incumbent, closed the margin Saturday between
himself and...
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 Preliminary results on Friday from Kenyan presidential elections held
the previous day showed opposition candidate Raila Odinga establishing
a commanding lead over incumbent Mwai Kibaki, in polls seen as a test
of democracy in the East African nation.
If Odinga wins, and Kibaki relinquishes power, Kenya will be one of
the few...
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 President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has suspended the country's
attorney-general over charges he abused his office, reports said
Saturday.
The president also appointed a tribunal consisting of two judges
and a lawyer to probe Sobusa Gula-Ndebele for misconduct, said an
official statement quoted by the state-controlled Herald...
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 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during a congress of his ruling
ZANU(PF) party on Thursday became its sole presidential candidate in
elections due next year.
There was no vote or debate among the 10,000 delegates. The
chairmen of each of the party's 10 provincial organizations read out
reports in which they said he had been...
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Voters in Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec elected a federalist provincial government Monday, handing the Liberal Party of Quebec a slim majority.
Premier Jean Charest's Liberals, who are not connected to the federal Liberal Party, won 66 seats in the 125-seat provincial legislature, with 42 per cent of the popular...
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Two giant pandas sent as a goodwill gift to Taiwan from China will make their debut at Taipei Zoo on the first day of the Chinese New Year, which falls on January 26, a spokesman said Thursday.
"The month-long quarantine for the pair at the Taipei Zoo will end on January 23 and we plan to formally introduce them to the public...
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Police in China's Tibet region have arrested 59 people suspected of "spreading rumours" in the nine months since Tibetans staged violent protests against Chinese rule in the regional capital of Lhasa, state media said on Friday.
After the protests and rioting in Lhasa in March, "some people started making up stories...
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Iraq and Turkey on Wednesday agreed to continue close cooperation to prevent Kurdish separatists from using Iraqi soil to launch attacks on Turkey, the Anka news agency reported.
"It is a pleasure for us that the solidarity between Turkey, Iraq and the United States will continue," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
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Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested three militants, one of them a Pakistani army soldier, in northern Jammu and Kashmir state.
The three militants, who were arrested from a hotel in the state's winter capital Jammu on Sunday, were planning a major suicide attack, IANS news agency quoted Jammu and Kashmir police chief...
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Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested three militants, one of them a Pakistani army soldier, in northern Jammu and Kashmir state.
The three militants, who were arrested at a hotel in the state's winter capital Jammu on Sunday, were planning a major suicide attack, IANS news agency quoted Jammu and Kashmir police chief...
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Interpol Chief Ronald Noble on Tuesday said the Indian government has not asked the global police organization to help investigate the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
"To date no information has been shared, we are hopeful it will happen very quickly," Noble said in Islamabad, where he met with Pakistani security...
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Tens of thousands of people thronged to the National Mausoleum to pay tribute to Bangladesh's liberation war heroes on Tuesday, while activists called for the country's war criminals of 1971 to be brought to justice.
Celebrating the nation's 38th Victory Day, the activists also urged voters to refrain from voting for war criminals,...
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A Shenzhen Airlines plane from China landed in Taipei early Monday as the two former civil war enemies opened direct transport and postal links.
The plane, which left Shenzhen at 7:20 am (2320 GMT) carrying 112 people, arrived at Sungshan Airport in an hour and 30 minutes and kicked off historic daily charter flights across the...
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An estimated accumulated Arab surplus of 1 trillion petrodollars gained prominence over the past three months as one of the key factors to reckon with in handling the global financial upheaval that erupted in the United States in September and spread to the rest of the world economy later on.
Analysts in the Middle East also raised...
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India, once safely cocooned from the world economy, is struggling to maintain its rapid economic growth as a global recession spreads its tentacles.
But its carefully graded integration with the world economy may have cushioned India from the worst of the current global financial volatility, analysts and officials said.
After...
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The Nobel Peace Prize went to the right hands, said the premier of Kosovo, which declared independence on guidelines laid by the recipient, Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari.
"The Nobel Peace Prize accorded to President Ahtisaari is a prize given to the right person, to the man ... who contributed so much for global peace and...
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Myanmar's military regime has taken initial steps towards opening an embassy in oil-rich Kuwait as a part of its policy of enhancing diplomatic relations with the Middle East, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.
A high-ranking delegation from the Myanmar Foreign Ministry, led by Deputy Minister Maung Myint, recently visited Kuwait...
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The lone terrorist captured in the Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Amir Kasav, wants to write a letter to his parents in Pakistan saying he was "misled" by the terrorist group, Indian media reported Tuesday.
"He (Kasav) expressed his desire to write a letter to his parents. He wants to write the letter saying he was misled by the...
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Pakistani security personnel have arrested the alleged planner of the November 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks in a raid on a suspected militant camp, media reports and officials said on Monday.
Scores of troops stormed the camp on Sunday just outside Muzaffarabad city, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, arresting at least half...
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Pakistani security personnel have arrested the alleged planner of the November 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks in a raid on a suspected militant camp, media reports said on Monday.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhwi, who was named by Indian officials for planning the Mumbai siege, was captured near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered...
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Pakistani soldiers have seized 20 people connected to a disbanded militant group accused of orchestrating the Mumbai terrorist attacks, media reports said Monday.
Troops made the arrests Sunday afternoon after storming a camp used by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charity wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which India blamed for the November 26...
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The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq announced a nine-day ceasefire with Turkey in honour of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, it was reported Monday.
"We want thereby to open the door to dialogue with Turkey," the news agency Aswat al-Iraq quoted PKK spokesman Ahmet Deniz as saying.
Deniz added that in the coming days...
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A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced Leyla Zana, a former parliamentarian and winner of the European Parliament's 1995 Sakharov Peace Prize, to 10 years imprisonment after finding her guilty of belonging to a terrorist group, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The court in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir ruled that a number of...
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Former Bangladeshi prime ministers and arch political rivals Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia exchanged greetings Friday at a reception to honour the country's military. It was their first face-to-face meeting in 18 years.
Private television channels aired live footage of the two meeting at the Armed Forces Day reception in Senakunja in...
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Major international media organizations protested against Israel Thursday because it has prevented journalists from entering the Gaza Strip for nearly two weeks now.
The media organizations sent a letter to caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, saying they were "gravely concerned" about the denial of access to the Gaza Strip...
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Major international media organizations protested against Israel Thursday because it has prevented journalists from entering the Gaza Strip for almost two weeks.
The media organizations, including ABC news, the BBC, CNN, the Associated Press, Reuters and the New York Times sent a letter to caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, saying...
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Three Turkish soldiers and four Kurdish separatists were killed Wednesday in two separate clashes in eastern and south- eastern Turkey, Turkish media reported Thursday.
In the first clash in the Lice region of Diyarbakir province, two soldiers and four Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) rebels were killed and four soldiers wounded.
An...
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Leaders in Kosovo Tuesday again rejected a Serbia-sponsored United Nations proposal to revise an upcoming European Union mission, the Eulex, in Kosovo, warning they would not allow even a hint at the partition of the country along ethnic lines.
"There can be no illegal and illegitimate institutions in any part of Kosovo,"...
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Taiwan's former vice president Lien Chan Monday headed to Peru for the November 22 leaders' summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, becoming the highest-ranking envoy from the island to attend the annual event.
Leading a 13-member delegation of foreign and economic affairs experts and officials, Lien was to stop...
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Voters turned out for the legislative assembly election in India's Jammu and Kashmir state Monday, despite a boycott call by separatist political parties and threats by militants.
Thousands of Indian Army troops and police provided security for voters in the 10 constituencies where the first of the seven-phase staggered elections are...
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More than 600 exiled Tibetan leaders gathered in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala Monday to air their views and aspirations on the best course of action for the Tibetan cause.
The situation in Tibet was serious and at this "critical stage" all Tibetans needed to find a consensus on what future action should to be...
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Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian has gone on a hunger strike to protest against his detention over a corruption probe, as Taiwan's High Court upheld a seven-year prison sentence against his son-in-law, officials said Thursday.
"The ex-president has stopped eating since he was placed under custody at the Taipei...
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Kosovo on Wednesday again dismissed a revised plan for a European Union mission proposed by by Brussels and the United Nations, worrying that it would threaten its sovereignty over the restive Serb territory.
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told reporters Pristina has extended a "warm welcome and invitation" to the EU mission,...
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A Syrian state television broadcast showing people tied to Lebanese organizations confessing to a September Damascus bomb attack is an attempt to smear Lebanese institutions, Lebanese politicians said Friday.
The Thursday-night broadcast showed ten men and a woman alleged to be members of the group Fatah al-Islam confessing to...
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China's ruling Communist Party sees the signing of four economic agreements with Taiwan on Tuesday as a small step on the path that it hopes will lead to eventual unification with the island state, a leading scholar said.
"In this situation the main aims are to promote economic, trade and cultural exchanges across the Strait, and...
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Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announced Friday it was to hold a three-day sit-in protest against the planned visit of top Chinese negotiator with Taiwan, Chen Yunlin.
The announcement came as a group of Chinese officials arrived in Taiwan Friday to prepare for Chen's November 3-7 visit, who was to...
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Taiwan announced Wednesday it will send former vice president Lien Chan to the November 22 leaders' summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
The announcement was seen as a breakthrough in the island's relations with China, which for years has opposed allowing any prominent Taiwan leader to attend the event,...
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A city councilman who allegedly incited a mob to attack a visiting Chinese official last week claimed Tuesday that he was beaten by gangsters linked to China.
"They punched me twice in the chest and demanded that I apologize to Zhang Mingqing or I would be killed," Wang Ting-yu, a city councilman of the southern city of...
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A city councilman who allegedly incited a mob to attack a visiting Chinese official last week claimed Tuesday that he was beaten by gangsters linked to China.
"They punched me twice in the chest and demanded that I apologize to Zhang Mingqing or I would be killed," Wang Ting-yu, a city councilman of the southern city of...
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Taiwan and China agreed Monday to hold a second round of high-level talks in Taipei next week, despite threats by pro-independence activists to disrupt the meeting.
"The Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) chairman Chen Yunlin will lead a delegation to Taiwan from November 3 to 7, the...
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Prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into a speech made by the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in which he attacked the government's policy regarding the Kurdish issue, the Anadolu news agency reported.
"The policy of denial, assimilation and eradication has affected people. Only the Kurds...
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Prosecutors on Wednesday launched an investigation into a speech made by the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in which he attacked the government's policy regarding the Kurdish issue, the Anadolu news agency reported.
"The policy of denial, assimilation and eradication has affected people. Only the Kurds...
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A senior Chinese official was assaulted Tuesday by a group of pro-independence activists during a visit in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan, threatening to undermine high-level China-Taiwan talks planned for this month in Taipei.
Zhang Mingqing, vice chairman of the Association of Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), was...
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A senior China official was heckled by pro-independence activists Monday during an academic seminar in the southern Taiwan county of Tainan, forcing him to cancel all public activities organized by his local host.
"Get out, get out of Taiwan," shouted dozens of activists, who rallied outside Tainan University of Art to...
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Kosovo's medical workers agreed to end their strike Wednesday, after winning a wage increase from the government.
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's cabinet agreed to add 44 euros (60 dollars) per month for all health system employees. An average doctor's monthly pay before the hike was 250 euros.
The government also accepted to push...
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Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh arrived in Damascus on Wednesday to formally initiate diplomatic ties with Syria for the first time since independence 60 years ago.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem and Salloukh announced in a joint statement "the launch of diplomatic relations between the Syrian Arab Republic and...
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu on Friday congratulated former Finish president Marti Ahtisaari for winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize, saying it was given to the most deserving person.
"This remarkable prize was without a doubt most deserved," local media quoted Sejdiu as saying.
Praised by the Nobel Committee for his...
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Turkish war planes backed by artillery on Thursday night conducted attacks on a large group of Kurdish separatists inside northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced on Friday.
A Turkish General Staff spokesman said the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) group were attempting to cross into Turkey where they planned to carry out attacks on...
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Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian Wednesday admitted that his wife had wired abroad 2 million US dollars, in the latest twist in a snowballing money laundering scandal implicating Chen and his family.
"My wife told me (in January) she still had close to 2 million US dollars in ABN Amro Bank in Singapore that had not been...
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