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BEIJING: China showed no sign Tuesday of throwing its support behind new sanctions against Iran following talks with Britain’s foreign minister, who had hoped to persuade Beijing to join a growing international consensus for more stringent measures. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi maintained that sanctions weren’t the solution to disagreements over Iran’s nuclear program and that more talks were the way forward. “Sanctions do not provide a fundamental solution to the Iranian nuclear issue

Samdhong Rinpoche, the Tibetan PM into exile in India dismisses statement made by Chinese delegates after the spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, had said that unrest in Tibet was caused by resentment over Chinese rule. The delegates claimed that China is very stable and united and that relations between Tibetans and the Han majority are harmonious and the Chinese people are furious with the Dalai Lama. Rinpoche said that what Tibetans are saying is the truth, which the whole world knows and now this is for the world community to see who is speaking the truth

The Jewish community in the U.S. only makes up about 1.8% of the population, but when it comes to the Middle East, it has an understandably keen interest and influential voice in U.S.

DHAKA: Bangladesh will persuade China to use Chittagong port as a commercial outlet for its southern Yunnan province, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said on Sunday. The Bangladesh stance was announced nearly three months after Bangladesh had agreed to allow India, Nepal and Bhutan to use its two sea ports mainly Chittagong port

Strong winds swept a fierce sandstorm into Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture , in far-western China, lowering visibility to zero in some areas, Chinese local media reported.

China lashed out at the Dalai Lama on Thursday after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader gave a speech in which he said Buddhists were living in prison-like conditions and expressed sympathy with the people of Xinjiang. The speech, given to mark the 51st anniversary of his flight from Tibet to India, drew official Chinese ire at a regular Foreign Ministry news briefing in Beijing

Forbes magazine revealed the annual list of the Richest People. Bill Gates is no longer the richest person, Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecommunications billionaire with a net worth of $53.5bn, has been crowned the world’s richest person.

Brazil rebuffed a US appeal for new sanctions on Iran about its nuclear programme, vowing not to “bow down” to gathering international pressure during a visit from US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

` Pakistan eyes billions in foreign investment : ISLAMABAD: Pakistan aims to attract foreign investment worth five billion dollars this year, but needs to tackle reform, maximise anaemic growth and stem rampant violence to clinch its ambitious target. Last fiscal year, Pakistan recorded its worst economic growth in more than a decade, at two percent, and attracted only 3.7 billion dollars in investment. Yet Board of Investment chairman Saleem Mandviwalla is optimistic despite Pakistan’s immense challenges