North Korea is grappling with food shortages, interviews with defectors and Chinese traders suggest.
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North Korea is grappling with food shortages, interviews with defectors and Chinese traders suggest.
Book retailer Maruzen Co. and major Chinese information technology firm Peking University Founder Group Corp.
Visiting Chinese special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs Wu Dawei sounded out Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in a Tuesday meeting on the possibility of soon restarting the six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea. Wu, who visited both North and South Korea before his trip to Japan, said he was eager to exchange views on the peninsula with the minister.
Would someone please provide the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) spokesman with a map! Over the last few months, since it was rumored, then denied, and then confirmed that the George Washington aircraft carrier would be involved in naval “show of force” maneuvers off the west coast of South Korea, PLA interlocutors have been proclaiming they “resolutely oppose any foreign military vessel and aircraft conducting activities in the Yellow Sea and China’s coastal waters that undermine China’s security interests.” China’s coastal waters? While the George Washington’s Yellow Sea area of operations has not yet been delineated, one assumes that it will operate in or adjacent to South Korean waters, somewhere in the general vicinity of the sinking of the South Korean Navy’s Cheonan corvette by a North Korean torpedo. This will place it about 195 km away from the closest Chinese landmass on the Shandong Peninsula and 280 km from the closest city of any significance, Dalian
SAGA (Kyodo) The three kanji for Arita ware, a representative Japanese porcelain produced in Arita, Saga Prefecture, were found registered as a trademark in China, embarrassing local officials and the ceramics industry, prefectural officials said Monday. According to the prefectural government, a Chinese individual who sells tableware applied to China’s Trademark Office in November 2002 and was awarded a 10-year registration in November 2004
My China. Cai Wensheng’s modest background has given him the insights he needs to succeed at a time when the market for Internet services is extending to the farthest reaches of the Chinese countryside.
The U.S. Commerce Department is expected Tuesday to find that $550 million in imported Chinese aluminum was illegally subsidized by the Chinese government, potentially leading to higher import duties.
BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan and China were at odds Saturday over how to restart the six-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear programs, with Beijing seeking an early resumption but Tokyo taking a cautious stance.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il on Saturday toured some industrial facilities in the Chinese city of Changchun, after holding a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao a day earlier, and is now appe…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arrived in a Chinese industrial city Friday, a day after making a pilgrimage to sites bearing footmarks of his late father, on an abrupt trip seen as related to his lea…