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Rejecting as “fabricated” reports of presence of up to 11,000 Chinese troops in PoK’s Gilgit- Baltistan area, Pakistan’s envoy here has claimed that only a “humanitarian team” from China was in the region to assist the flood victims.

“The story is not true and totally fabricated,” Pakistan’s ambassador to China, Masood Khan, told the state-run ‘Global Times’ daily.

While agricultural markets focus on Russia’s devastating drought, another large shift in soft commodity production and consumption is lurking in the background: China’s mediocre crops this year, combined with a shift in dietary habits, have strained the country’s traditional sufficiency in grains, leading to higher prices and large imports.

Following on the heels of the signing of a controversial cross-strait trade agreement, the authoritarian People’s Republic of China is now pressuring President Ma Ying-jeou’s rightist Chinese Nationalist Party government to explicitly “oppose Taiwan independence” to maintain “the foundations for mutual trust” across the Taiwan Strait.

China’s government appears to have responded quickly after landslides and flooding devastated the isolated county of Zhouqu.

Rescuers were immediately despatched to the mountainous region; the first soldiers arrived just a few hours after disaster struck.

China’s premier cultivates the image of a sympathetic “Grandpa Wen,” but a new and unusually critical book claims he should be known as “China’s Best Actor” instead.

Author Yu Jie said his new book aims to show the vast difference between the prim premier’s image and his hard-line policies. “China’s Best Actor: Wen Jiabao” will be published this month in Hong Kong despite police threats he could be put in prison, the author said.

London will not make any attempt to match the splendour of the 2008 Beijing Olympics when it hosts the event in 2012, chairman of the organising committee Sebastian Coe said on Thursday.

Instead, London would cull the best of all past Olympics and put up a game which is unique, Coe said.

China and Argentina signed 18 agreements covering infrastructure, energy and railway projects on Tuesday as Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner held talks with her Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.

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A panda cub was accidentally crushed to death by his mother in a Beijing zoo on July 3.

The mother panda, named ‘Ying Hua,’ gave birth to twin female pandas just 20 hours earlier.

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Summer has arrived and with it the plum rains or meiyu. Getting caught in the rain is an all too often occurrence and the chances of catching a cab are remote. And as rain hits the streets umbrella sellers materialize to hawk their wares to desperate passersby.

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The world’s second oldest profession is, it seems, trying to suppress prostitution. The Chinese have been practising it for some time, with the predictable degree of success. Now we hear that the Hilton hotel chain has got into some embarrassment because police in More >