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China is turning a blind eye to the thriving illegal trade in tiger parts, a campaign group said Thursday following an undercover investigation in western China and Tibet. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a British-based organisation, showed photos it said were taken by a spy camera revealing the "rampant" sale of tiger and white leopard skins, bones and claws in retail stores. ... read more 
Cha-Am Hua Hin, Thailand (SPX) Oct 26, 2009India on Saturday offered to help southeast Asian nations in management of natural disasters by sharing satellite data for the region and launch small satellites built by them. "We would be ready to share satellite data for management of natural disasters, launch small satellites and scientific instruments and payloads for experiments in remote sensing and communication for space agencies ... more
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Hua Hin, Thailand (AFP) Oct 24, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao agreed with his Indian counterpart Saturday to work towards narrowing differences on long-simmering border issues between the two nations, state media reported. Wen reached the agreement with Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thailand grouping the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other countries, the official Xinhua ... more  
Dharamshala, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Chinese soldiers executed three Tibetans for their role in unrest that shook the region last year, an exiles' organisation said on Thursday citing unnamed sources. The Gu Chu Sum group of former Tibetan political prisoners said the two men and one woman were shot on Wednesday in the capital Lhasa, having been detained after riots broke out in Tibet in March 2008. Fierce anti-China ... more  
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Pirates captured a Panamanian-flagged ship with 26 crew off the East Africa coast on Thursday and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an Italian ship, which escaped. The bulk carrier Al Khaliq was hijacked when pirates boarded and overpowered the mostly Indian crew in waters between Somalia and the Seychelles, the joint European Union-NATO mission to protect shipping in ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 21, 2009A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 million years ago. Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and a team of researchers took a close look at the massive Shiva basin, a submerged depression west of India that is ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2009China said Tuesday it was "firmly opposed" to a planned visit by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian region at the centre of a border dispute with China. "China's position on so-called Arunachal Pradesh is consistent and clear and we firmly oppose the Dalai Lama's visit to the region," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters. "China is ... more
Beijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2009China vowed "all-out efforts" Tuesday to rescue a Chinese cargo ship hijacked in the Indian Ocean with 25 crew aboard, bringing to six the number of vessels currently in the hands of Somali pirates. This is the second time that a Chinese ship has been captured by marauding sea bandits in the area, after a fishing boat and its 24-member crew were held hostage for three months before being ... more |
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