USA Today has published an editorial commenting on various actions by the Chinese government in the run-up to the Olympics, including a recent crackdown on the press and on dissidents:This overreaction is unnecessary and counterproductive. Allowing the kind of freedom
From AFP:Taiwan and Japan pledged Tuesday to calmly resolve a diplomatic row over the sinking of a Taiwanese fishing boat after it collided with a Japanese vessel near disputed islets in the East China Sea."The foreign ministry will try to
Chinese vice-premier Wang Qishan writes on the Wall Street Journal:Prior to this week's economic talks with the U.S., the Chinese government unveiled the Outline of National Intellectual Property Rights -- a new strategy to tackle the many issues surrounding IPR.
From Reuters:China on Tuesday reported a bird flu outbreak in ducks in the southern province of Guangdong, close to Hong Kong where poultry at all commercial markets was culled last week.The Guangdong outbreak, in a village administered by Jiangmen city,
Caijing Magazine has conducted an investigation into the collapse of schools in the recent Wenchuan earthquake:Caijing's investigation of five schools that collapsed showed that none of the building sites had undergone a geological survey prior to construction. From day one,
The Christian Science Monitor gives an update on earthquake relief efforts:"The most difficult thing for the government will be resettling victims," says Peng Zongchao, a crisis management expert at Tsingua University's Public Policy Institute in Beijing. "They will have to
On NPR's Morning Edition, Vishakha Desai, president of the Asia Society, reviewed three recent books about China and India: Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping their Futures and Yours, by Tarun Khanna; The New Asian Hemisphere: The
On Monday co-reporters of the PACE monitoring commission John Prescott and George Colombier will visit Armenia. They are planning to have meetings with president Serzh Sargsyan and other politicians, ...
Lezgins, Avars and Tsakhurs, living in several regions of Azerbaijan warn about the threat of their total annihilation and deportation. The statement issued by the Dagestani-speaking nations of Azerbaijan ...
The 300 residents of the village of Deghdzavan situated near the border of Georgia have been buying water since 2004. The peasants used to buy it for 6 AMD a liter but after the increase of fuel costs D...
Currently in Moscow, Armenia's Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan met with his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov. As the Armenian Minister's Spokesman Seyran Shahsuvaryan told PanARMENIAN.Net, the ...
Minutes ago the European Court of Human Rights upheld the claim of Meltex Ltd and Mesrop Movsesyan vs. Armenia (application no. 32283/04). The applicants were Meltex Ltd, an independent broadcasting co...
On June 16 the RA Rescue Service was called to Babajanian Str. to open the door of a locked apartment. The rescuers were able to open the door at 23:54. As it turned out one of the family members, who
On June 17 detainee of the "Vardashen" Penitentiary Davit Matevosian sent an application to the head of the penitentiary informing about his quitting the hunger strike. On the same day hunger strikers of...
Armenian authorities are not informed about the Saudi RAK Minerals Metals Investments (RMMI) company, which has by 100$ acquired Armenian TSCC company. In an interview with Panorama.am reporter Hovik ...
The opposition organized a protest demonstration on the occasion of arrival of Jon Prescott and George Colombier, PACE Rapporteurs from the PACE Monitoring Commission, in Armenia. The oppositions slogans ...
After the release of your November 14th, 2007 report "Nagorno Karabakh: Risking War", a group of active and concerned citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh gathered together at the initiative of Nagorno-Karabakh ...
On June 16 the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan met with the PACE co-rapporteurs John Prescott and George Colombier. They discussed the implementation of the PACE resolution 1609, as well ...
omania were on Tuesday knocked out of theEuro 2008 competition after losing 2-0 to Group C winners Netherlands in amatch played in Berne. The Romanians, who surprisingly went into their finalgame with a chance to advance to the quarter-finals, would
