REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – China’s premier Wen Jiabao landed in Iceland on Friday to begin a tour of northern Europe that will focus on Chinese investment in a continent eager for funds from the fast-growing Asian power. That the prime minister of the world’s most populous nation chose to start his trip on a remote...
GUANGZHOU, China, April 20 (UPI) — China released 21 Vietnamese fishermen and two explosives-filled boats after holding them for more than a month for alleged illegal fishing, officials said. The fishermen and boats were seized March 4 and held at the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, over which the countries had fought...
Describing the sale as an “embarrassment” for Beijing, the official said the White House would use the episode to tighten pressure on the Chinese government to better enforce United Nations sanctions forbidding the sale of weapons or technology to North Korea that would aid its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. The evidence of Chinese...
LONDON | Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:32pm BST LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will wait to see how much money China will give the International Monetary Fund before making any commitment of its own, a government official said on Friday, suggesting Canada could also make a contribution. Britain has come under pressure from IMF Director...
China’s Supreme Court suspended the death sentence for Wu Ying, a woman whose conviction for defrauding investors of $55.7 million highlighted the country’s shadow-banking system and sparked a debate on the use of capital punishment for nonviolent criminals. The Supreme Court referred her case yesterday back to the court that imposed the sentence and...
Vatican media say a Chinese bishop has been ordained in a southwestern diocese with approval from both Beijing and Rome, a sign that the Sino-Vatican relationship may be improving. Online news site Vatican Insider reported that Joseph Chen Gong’ao was ordained Thursday in a ceremony attended by 800 as the bishop of Nanchong diocese...
BEIJING — The second annual Beijing International Film Festival opens Monday amid a film industry boom in China. Box-office revenue totaled more than $2 billion for the first time in 2011. And in the quarter just ended China overtook Japan to become the largest foreign market for American films, thanks in part to continued...
Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When John Paton Davies died, he left some unfinished business. His daughter, Tiki Davies, knew he had signed a contract to write a memoir but never finished it. One of...
Bo was dramatically removed from his post in Chongqing last month, and on April 10 stripped of his membership in the Party Central Committee and the 25-member Politburo. Authorities said Bo is being investigated for “severe violations” of the Party’s internal discipline rules while his wife and a household aide were arrested on suspicion...
