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Source: Global Times    [02:46 October 16 2009]
Premier Wen Jiabao wants to meet with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in Thailand next week in what looks to be a sign of diplomacy amid renewed border disputes between the neighboring countries, Indian media reported.
The meeting would come on the heels of a recent controversial visit [...]

Source: Global Times  [00:29 October 15 2009]
By Cong Mu
The country’s gross external debts at the end of June rose slightly from the end of March, but their rate of decline compared with the same period last year has picked up.
Outstanding foreign debts amounted to $360.6 billion at the end of the second quarter, down [...]

China reduced its holdings of US government debt by the largest margin in nearly nine years in June, according to data from the US Treasury.
China holds more US government debt than any other country and cut its holdings of US securities by more that 3% in June, said the BBC’s Chris Hogg.
Japan and the UK [...]

The Chinese government asked the World Trade Organization on the 12th to set up expert groups to investigate and decide if  EU’S anti-dumping measures toward China’s fasteners violate international trade rules.
Chinese Permanent Delegation of the World Trade Organization said in a statement the same day, the Chinese government has sent a letter to President of [...]

Recently, the British Akmal Shaik was sentenced to death due to drug trafficking by Chinese courts.This caused a big uproar in the UK. British media insisted that the person suffering from mental illness, hope that the Chinese Government not to sentence him to death, and called for China’s diplomatic pressure.
British “Daily Telegraph”reported on 12th that the [...]

Source: Global Times   [03:20 October 13 2009]
 
By Qiu Wei
Six death penalties and a life-imprisonment sentence were handed down Monday in the first verdicts over the unrest in the western Xinjiang region three months ago that left almost 200 dead.
The sentencing appeased some victims’ families, who nonetheless maintained their call for more timely punishments for [...]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s special plane arrived in Beijing in the evening of 12th, thus opened the  three-day visit to China.Putin’s visit to China draws very high degree of global concern.This is not just because it was the first visit to China after he became prime minister,but also he will signe with China on an [...]