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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s foreign minister has a new ride. In a ministerial first in more than three decades, Wang Yi has chosen a locally manufactured Red Flag limousine, the same brand Mao Zedong rode to inspect parades. “Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi’s official car is a Red Flag H7 sedan,” the ministry wrote in a microblog post, which showed an image of the newly developed vehicle. Wang’s previous official car was a foreign brand. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Rachel Cohen, on June 10th, 2013 Rachel Cohen on how Congress and the stalled peace process might force Obama’s hand on the U.S. embassy in Israel.
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By , on June 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The meeting at Panmunjom, where the truce ending the 1950-53 Korean War was signed, is the first of its kind on the Korean Peninsula in more than two years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of angry Turks took to the streets on Saturday to join mass anti-government protests, defying Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call to end the worst civil unrest of his decade-long rule. From the early morning, protesters began arriving in Istanbul’s Taksim Square with food and blankets to settle in for a weekend of protests, adding to the growing tent city in nearby Gezi Park. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North and South Korea will meet on Sunday at a village straddling their heavily armed border as the sides try to lower tension and restore projects once seen as symbols of their rapprochement, officials said. The North delivered its agreement on Saturday to hold talks at Panmunjom through a Red Cross line restored a day earlier, the Unification Ministry said in a text message. Pyongyang had earlier favoured its border city of Kaesong as the venue. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than nine million students packed exam halls across China for the opening day of the country’s university entrance exam on Friday – with attempts to stop cheating even leading to bans on metal bra clasps. Students in the northeastern province of Jilin were banned from wearing clothing with metal parts and education authorities installed metal detectors in exam centres to clamp down on “wireless cheating devices”, the state-run Global Times reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chengdu, host of the Fortune Global Forum this year, stunned its heavyweight guests on Thursday by welcoming them in what many call a “North Korean” style guards of honour, according to Chinese media reports. In an attempt at hospitality, the host city on Thursday night, the first day of the forum, lined the steps inside a five-star hotel with an army of immaculately dressed children, each standing and holding a panda bear doll – the symbol of Chengdu. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — While President Barack Obama is meeting with China’s president in California this weekend, some Chinese are disappointed that first lady Michelle Obama will not be on the trip. The first lady’s office would only say she was staying in Washington to be with family. Monday is younger daughter Sasha Obama’s 12th birthday, and Mrs. Obama early on declared herself “mom in chief” and always has said her girls come first. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A former provincial vice governor is under investigation for alleged disciplinary violations, state media reported on Tuesday, in the latest instance of a high-level clampdown on corruption. Ni Fake, who was once the vice governor of Anhui province in eastern China, is being probed for “suspected serious disciplinary offences”, the official Xinhua news agency said. The phrase is a euphemism for corruption in China’s state media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A huge window pane came crashing down from the 28th floor of a luxury residential block in Ap Lei Chau yesterday, hitting a car and missing the driver by seconds. Residents say three other panes have fallen from their frames at the same Larvotto complex since 2011 and 34 windows had cracked. An expert blamed it on impurities in the glass reacting to hot weather. This time, residents said they heard a loud noise just after 8am and then saw large pieces of glass plummeting past their windows. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A group of families demanding justice for the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has denounced new President Xi Jinping for failing to launch political reforms, saying he was taking China “backwards towards Maoist orthodoxy”. The Tiananmen mothers activist group has long urged the leadership to open a dialogue and provide a reassessment of the 1989 pro-democracy movement, bloodily suppressed on June 4 that year by the government which labeled it “counter-revolutionary”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013 England’s friendly in Brazil on Sunday is suspended over stadium safety concerns, but officials are confident the game will go ahead.
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israel is preparing to build more than 1,000 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem as the United States strives to revive dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, an NGO said late on Wednesday. Danny Seidemann, director of Jerusalem settlement watchdog Terrestrial Jerusalem, said that contracts for 300 homes in the northeastern settlement of Ramot were signed and another 797 plots were to be offered for sale in the southern Jerusalem settlement of Gilo, near the West bank city of Jerusalem. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Cambodian prime minister said he wants a law to punish people who deny that atrocities occurred during the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, apparently trying to link his political opponents to the widely despised movement. Hun Sen’s appeal to Parliament on Monday comes ahead of a July 28 election his Cambodian People’s Party is expected to win by a landslide. Hun Sen has been campaigning aggressively and has suggested several times that an opposition victory would be akin to bringing back the Khmer Rouge, even though there is no connection between the two. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By BRET SCHULTE, on May 27th, 2013 Backers of a barely begun castle in Arkansas are seeking a buyer willing to resume the dream of immersing tourists in medieval life and construction.
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By , on May 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Abe said in Myanmar’s state media on Saturday that the first visit by a Japanese premier since 1977 would see “further assistance” to Myanmar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In recent weeks prominent liberal economist Mao Yushi has experienced first-hand the leftist revival taking shape on the mainland. First, Mao, 84, was bombarded last month by insults and even death threats by anonymous callers angered by his criticism of the party’s patriarch, Mao Zedong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China should play an active role in managing the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme, which could resume after Pyongyang sent a special envoy to Beijing, analysts say. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s premier agreed on Saturday to press on with work on a major industrial zone near Yangon on a visit to Myanmar aimed at deepening economic ties with the former junta-ruled nation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Myanmar officials at the Thilawa project on the first day of a trip promoting Japanese business in a country which desperately needs investment and infrastructure to drive a much-anticipated economic revival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing’s efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae’s three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear program. Choe returned to North Korea late Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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China foreign minister’s new ride: the Mao Zedong-approved limousine
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s foreign minister has a new ride. In a ministerial first in more than three decades, Wang Yi has chosen a locally manufactured Red Flag limousine, the same brand Mao Zedong rode to inspect parades. “Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi’s official car is a Red Flag H7 sedan,” the ministry wrote in a microblog post, which showed an image of the newly developed vehicle. Wang’s previous official car was a foreign brand. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China foreign minister’s new ride: the Mao Zedong-approved limousine
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