ISLAMABAD: At least 30 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on religious procession of Shiite Muslims in the south Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday, a senior official said.
Secretary of Sindh Province Hashim Raza Zaidi confirmed that 30 people were killed in the attack. Officials said that up to 50 people were injured [...]

At least 17 miners were killed in two separate coal mine accidents that occurred hours apart, as the country’s top work-safety body vowed to prevent accidents during the upcoming festivities for New Year’s Day and Spring Festival.
At about 1:50 am yesterday in Shuangbai county, Yunnan province, a gas buildup caused a mineshaft collapse, killing five [...]

Another spacecraft launch likely in 2010 to prepare for space lab
China plans to launch Chang’e-2, the country’s second lunar probe, at the end of 2010, space authorities announced yesterday.
The design and production of Chang’e-2 is complete, and the lunar orbiter is undergoing ground tests, the State Administration of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense [...]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit China next year and bilateral visits between Russia and China are set to boom, said Russian ambassador to China Sergey Razov yesterday in Beijing.
In addition to Medvedev’s visit to China, Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao will visit Russia and there will be frequent exchanges at the ministerial level, said Razov.
Meetings [...]

TAICHUANG: A senior Beijing negotiator said on Monday an agreement on the avoidance of double taxation across the Taiwan Straits will not be signed tomorrow as expected due to “technical reasons.”
Zheng Lizhong, vice-president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), made the remarks after holding a preparatory meeting with Kao Koong-lian, vice [...]

TAICHUANG: A senior Beijing negotiator said on Monday an agreement on the avoidance of double taxation across the Taiwan Straits will not be signed tomorrow as expected due to “technical reasons.”
Zheng Lizhong, vice-president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), made the remarks after holding a preparatory meeting with Kao Koong-lian, vice [...]

TAICHUNG: Chinese mainland’s chief negotiator for Taiwan affairs Chen Yunlin Monday arrived in Taichung for a fresh round of talks with his Taiwan counterpart Chiang Pin-kung.
The meeting between Chen, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and Chiang, chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), is scheduled on Tuesday in the [...]

GENEVA: Top trade judges on Monday rejected a Chinese appeal against a World Trade Organization ruling that said many of its curbs on foreign films, books and other cultural products violate open trading rules.
The decision — turning down Chinese complaints that an original WTO panel had erred in backing much of a case brought by [...]

Potential home buyers are swarming to the real estate market before the end of the year, fearing that the soaring prices will never come back down and rushing to take advantage of favorable government policies.
Real estate agencies have reported that the number of apartments sold in December has already doubled since last month, and statistics [...]

China will launch a remote-sensing satellite, ” Yaogan VIII” in the coming days from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province, the center said Sunday.
The satellite would be sent into the space aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket, the center said.
Also on board is China’s first public-welfare mini satellite, “Hope I,” which [...]