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Good friends India China can speak with candour Li
India and China were "strategic partners and good friends" that could speak to each other with candour, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Monday while stressing on discussions on the border issue and river waters. Addressing the media alongside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the visiting premier said the two nations had worked to "maintain tranquillity and peace in the border areas". Describing ...
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Early resolution of boundary question water issue key to improved Sino-India tiesPM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that the basis for continued growth and expansion of ties between India and China is peace and tranquility on borders separating the two countries. In a statement delivered at a joint media interaction that followed delegation-level talks between the two countries, Dr. Singh said that during his talks with Premier Li, he had emphasized on the need ...
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India China have differences but will be together Li
India and China do have "difficult issues left over from history" but are destined to exist together, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said in a published article Monday. Writing in The Hindu newspaper, Li warned that there would be no Asian century if India and China failed to live in harmony and achieve common development. "There is no denying that China and India still have between them some ...
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India-China consensus big stride forward Li
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Monday described the consensus reached on various issues between China and India as "a big stride forward" and called for conducting dialogue in a "mature and sensible way". It was fair to say that the two sides had "arrived at multiple, significant outcomes", Li said in his statement to the media alongside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both countries had ...
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Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title
Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...
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India China border experts will meet soon
Special representatives of India and China will meet soon to discuss their disputed border where Chinese incursion sparked tensions recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. Speaking to the media jointly with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Manmohan Singh said that while India and China have had differences, relations had been built steadily in the more recent times. He said both ...
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Australian construction industry to see slow recovery
The Australian building and construction industry will see a mixed recovery over 2015-16 after a number of challenging years, according to Master Builders Australia (MBA) forecasts released Monday. While the forecasts predict a positive growth for the industry, MBA reports that the current economic climate is creating headwinds that may impede the timing and strength of recovery. There's light ...
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Japan mayor says S. Korean troops guilty of sex abuse
TOKYO (AFP) - South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, Osaka's mayor said in comments reported Tuesday, days after provoking a storm by labelling sex slaves a military necessity.In a remark likely to fuel outrage and further stoke tensions in an already uneasy relationship, Toru Hashimoto said the South Korean military used women for sex to keep servicemen's ...
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Six wounded in S. Philippine bombing
Six people were wounded after leftist rebels detonated bombs along a national highway in southern Philippines on Tuesday, the military said.The incident along the Pan-Philippine highway in Magdum village, Tagum City, Davao del Norte province, at around 6 a.m. local time injured five soldiers and a civilian woman, according to Lt. Vilma Mojado, spokesperson for the 10th civil military operations ...
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Taiwan networkingcommunication device makers see decreasing profit-to-RD spending ratio
Seven main Taiwan-based networking/communication device makers saw the average ratio of pre-tax profit to R&D expenditure continually decline from 0.87 for 2010 to 0.45 for first-quarter 2013, their financial reports have ...
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Taiwan attracts January-April foreign direct investment of over US$1.5 billion
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 960 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$1.558 billion in January-April 2013. The number of projects increased 34.08% on year but the value decreased ...
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Taiwan April export order value slightly down on month year says MOEA
Taiwan received export orders worth US$35.69 billion in total in April 2013, decreasing by 0.4% on month and by 1.1% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on May ...
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Taiwan makers expected to benefit from Lenovo targeting smartphones in 2013
China-based Lenovo jumped into the world's 10 largest smartphone vendors for the first quarter and has set an ambitious goal of shipping 60 million smartphones in fiscal year 2013 (April 2013-March 2014), which is expected to benefit Lenovo's existing Taiwan-based ODMs and EMS providers Compal Communications, Foxconn International Holdings, Wistron NeWeb and Qisda, according to ...
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Digitimes Research Taiwan LCD driver IC shipments rise 22 in 1Q13
Shipments of LCD driver ICs by Taiwan-based IC design houses for the first quarter of 2013 grew 21.6% from a year ago to NT$20.18 billion (US$673.8 million) in value, according to Digitimes Research. Shipments for small-size panel applications, such as smartphones, continued to register strong ...
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Taiwan panel makers lower pricing for Ultra HD TV panels
Taiwan-based panel makers are continuing to see increased orders from China-based TV vendors for Ultra HD TV panels as the makers' pricing for the technology is continuing to ...
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India China MoUs to address trade deficit mark a good beginning
India and China today signed three Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) on buffalo meat, fisheries and pharmaceuticals; and one agreement on feed and feed ingredients. The MoUs will address trade deficit between the two countries. The trade deficit has increased from US$1.08 billion in 2001-02 to $40.77 billion in 2012-13. The MoUs were signed during the visit of the Premier of the State Council ...
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China PM Li Keqiang vows to open up markets to India
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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China hackers got spy info from Google report
-0.07% databases accessed valuable information about U.S. knowledge of Chinese espionage activities, the Washington Post reported late Monday. The cyber-intrusions, which Google reported in 2010, included information on U.S. court orders to conduct surveillance of Gmail accounts, the report said. This, in turn, likely tipped off China as to which of its operatives had drawn the suspicion of U.S. ...
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N Korea releases China sailors
North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. "All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back," China's Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the ship's ...
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Gloom hits services as Australias mining boom peaks
With miners from BHP Billiton Ltd down shelving projects and slashing costs that grew out of control during the boom, they have turned the screws on ...
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China insurer PICC PC plans $938 mn rights offer
Casualty Co Ltd (PICC P&C) is raising 5.76 billion yuan ($938 million) to bolster capital, expecting strong growth and amid signs that profitability of Chinese insurers are coming under pressure. China's property and casualty insurance market is expanding between 10-15 per cent annually, making it the fastest growing in the world. That growth also makes it imperative for the insurers to ...
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Guatemalas top court annuls Rios Montts genocide conviction
Rios Montt was found guilty of overseeing the killings by the armed forces of at least 1,771 members of the Maya Ixil population during his 1982-83 rule in ...
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Japan mayor ready to apologise to comfort women
The maverick mayor of Osaka on Thursday offered to meet former wartime sex slaves to apologise for their suffering, but insisted anew that Japan's soldiers were not unique in brutalising women. Up to 200,000 "comfort women" from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military during WWII, according to many ...
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Washington’s hacking charges escalate pressure on China
Yesterday, top US officials and media made unsubstantiated allegations of hacking of US computer systems by a military unit in Shanghai, escalating tensions with China. ...
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Detained Chinese Fishermen Boat Released by North Korea
The official Xinhua news agency reported the development Tuesday, quoting a Chinese consular official in Pyongyang who spoke with the owner of the fishing boat. The official said the men were safe and on their way home, but he gave no other details. The owner of the boat says North Korea was demanding nearly $100,000 for the return of the boat and crew, which were taken May 6 in the waters ...
North Korea Digest
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North Korea's navy integral to sea border security
The North Korean Navy is an integral part of the country’s armed forces and the 46,000 men and woman that man it are the part of the defense force most often in international and North Korean news media.
The North Korean Navy is part of the Korean People’s Army Naval Force and makes up the country’s maritime defense capability. Because the navy is primarily concerned with defense, it operates as a ‘green water’ rather than a ‘blue water’ navy, which means it is capable of carrying out missions and activities offshore but not at extended ranges such as the Chinese Navy, which is much larger and includes air craft carriers, battle ships and destroyers. Read more
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