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The Straits Times - 30-Mar-2014

March 29, 2014 6:47 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - China has laid out the charges against the four surviving suspects in a knife attack in the southwestern city of Kunming this month that left at least 169 dead or injured, the official People's Daily newspaper said on Saturday.         ...

The Straits Times - 30-Mar-2014

March 29, 2014 6:57 PM QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) - A bomb blast targeting a vehicle carrying security forces killed a young girl and wounded 16 others - including up to eight children - in Pakistan's troubled southwest Saturday, police said.         ...

The Straits Times - 29-Mar-2014

March 29, 2014 10:18 AM SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea said on Saturday its relations with South Korea had been driven into a "catastrophic" phase again, warning the South's scattering of anti-Pyongyang leaflets could spark a war.         ...

The Straits Times - 29-Mar-2014

March 29, 2014 2:14 AM BERLIN (REUTERS) - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday his country would not act aggressively regarding territorial claims in the South China Sea but was determined to safeguard its interests there.         ...

The Straits Times - 29-Mar-2014

March 29, 2014 3:06 AM BERLIN (AFP) - Export giants Germany and China pledged to deepen their strategic ties Friday during a landmark visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Berlin, which also saw the inking of a raft of economic pacts.         ...

The Straits Times - 29-Mar-2014

March 29, 2014 12:49 AM FRANKFURT (REUTERS) - Germany's Daimler and Beijing Automotive Industry Corp IPO-BAC.SS have earmarked 1 billion euros (S$1.7 billion) of a 4 billion-euro China investment plan to more than double car production at their joint venture by 2015.         ...

The Straits Times - 28-Mar-2014

March 28, 2014 3:28 PM TOKYO (REUTERS) - Work to remove spent fuel rod assemblies from Japan's destroyed Fukushima reactor has been halted after possible damage to a giant crane, the first major delay in an operation to remove 1,533 fuel assemblies from a holding pool.         ...

The Straits Times - 28-Mar-2014

March 28, 2014 4:06 PM NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - An Indian Air Force C-130J Hercules cargo plane crashed on Friday in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, an Air Force spokesman said.         ...

The Straits Times - 28-Mar-2014

March 28, 2014 4:40 PM MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines said on Friday it planned to defy Chinese warnings and pursue a case in the United Nations challenging Beijing's claim to most of the South China Sea.         ...

The Straits Times - 28-Mar-2014

March 28, 2014 4:46 AM PARIS (AFP) - After a day devoted to multi-billion-dollar business deals, Chinese leader Xi Jinping trained his sights on culture and history Thursday on the last day of his lavish visit to France.         ...

The Straits Times - 28-Mar-2014

March 28, 2014 4:26 AM WASHINGTON (AFP) - Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel will travel to China and Japan next week after hosting a meeting of Asian defence ministers in Hawaii, amid tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over a disputed island chain.         ...

The Straits Times - 27-Mar-2014

March 27, 2014 2:10 PM BEIJING (AFP) - More than 10 tigers have been killed as "visual feasts" to entertain officials and rich businessmen in a Chinese city, state media reported.         ...

The Straits Times - 27-Mar-2014

March 27, 2014 1:12 PM One has only just concluded its second meet. The other is a constantly evolving group. In that sense, both The Growth Net and the emerging economies it aims to provide a platform to, are works in progress, the forum's co-chair Claude Smadja told The Straits Times.         ...

The Straits Times - 27-Mar-2014

March 27, 2014 11:06 AM SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea issued a scathing personal attack on Thursday on South Korean President Park Geun Hye, accusing her of breaking a moratorium on cross-border insults and behaving like a "blabbering" peasant woman.         ...

The Straits Times - 27-Mar-2014

March 27, 2014 11:52 AM SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - Police in the rural Chinese city of Yancheng have detained a person suspected of spreading rumours that sparked a three-day bank run, security officials said on the city police force's official microblog on Thursday.         ...

The Straits Times - 27-Mar-2014

March 27, 2014 12:34 PM SEOUL (AFP) - Nearly 15,000 South Korean and US troops kicked off a 12-day amphibious landing drill on Thursday, the largest for two decades, a day after North Korea launched two mid-range ballistic missiles.         ...

The Straits Times - 27-Mar-2014

March 27, 2014 12:40 PM BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese activist who investigated whether shoddy construction caused the deaths of thousands of children when their schools collapsed in a 2008 earthquake was released Thursday after finishing a five-year jail term, his lawyer said.         ...


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