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The Chinese President, Hu Jintao, arrived in Tokyo yesterday on a historic mission to bring what he called a “warm spring of friendship” to a bilateral relationship battered by rows over history, territory – and dumplings.
The first visit...
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President Pak-India Peace Initiatives Awais Sheikh Tuesday highlighted the details pertaining to the launching of his book ‘Samjhota Express’ here at a news conference held in the Lahore Press Club.
He said his book stressed on friendship...
Farming and poetry were inextricably linked for Shrikrishna Kalamb. As he poured his efforts into scraping a livelihood for him and his family from the unyielding land, so he described in verse the scale of his struggle.
It was a struggle he ultimately...
The city of Rangoon was a disaster zone yesterday after a devastating cyclone blew away houses, tore down trees and power lines and killed more than 350 people in Burma.
In some towns south of Rangoon three quarters of the houses were reported to have...
Indian space launch vehicle lifted off from the Sriharikota spaceport on the Indian Ocean to put into space Israel’s most sophisticated spy satellite ever launched, the Polaris. The commercial launch of Polaris by the Indian Space Research...
The NWFP government has released Maulana Sufi Mohammad, chief of the banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), who had been in detention for more than six years.
He was released on Monday following an agreement with leaders of the banned...
Sri Lanka — As gray-bellied clouds started to blot out the scorching sun, Sara Waeathi, 46, and her sister Kannaga, 30, called their seven children inside just as a light rain accelerated to a downpour.
The family huddled under their shelter, a...
With voluptuous bodies and a sultry glamor, the models looked like a mirror image of the front row movie stars. Flamboyant dresses held together with crystal straps seemed destined for Mumbai’s cinematic royalty. By the time the designer Manish...
What Tibetans and the Chinese government consider “Tibet” is very different. The areas of historic Tibet that are outside the so-called “Tibetan Autonomous Region” are incorporated into the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Gansu. ...
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