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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to China was revealing.

Pakistan and China Wednesday vowed to further consolidate their time-tested ties and signed a number of accords and MoUs, including the one for establishing an economic corridor that would provide air, rail and road connectivity to bolster bilateral trade between the neighbouring countries.

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PYONGYANG, North Korea - After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance.

Shang Xia, a Chinese luxury brand backed by French fashion house Hermes, has finally confirmed its grand opening in Paris, which is planned for September.

The Centers for Disease Control said recently that despite the outbreak of H7N9 bird cases and the widespread incidence of air pollution, China is still a safe destination for tourists.

China's Premier Li Keqiang and Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras talk during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week.

In an underground mall just a stone's throw from the Chinese mainland's border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical gold plaques do a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland visitors, many of them bound for the gambling hub.

Maldives resort Niyama has recently requested its agents to check tourists' marriage certificates to avoid fake applicants.

The colorful, electric sign was something of an unusual and unexpected greeting for Briton Simon Cockerell, 35, who this week embarked on a landmark visit to Sinuiju, North Korea's largest border town.

The Philippines has protested the presence of a Chinese warship and other vessels off a Filipino military-occupied shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands.

President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific.

Cheap and cheery: Japan's Fast Retailing last month opened a 37,500 square foot Uniqlo store in the iconic Causeway Bay, which overtook New York's Fifth Avenue as the world's most expensive retail location.

Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before address a joint press briefing in New Delhi.

China says it is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner publicized the plight of its 16 crew in an online account saying they were seized by gun-wielding North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom.

In this March 17, 2013 file photo, China's newly-named Premier Li Keqiang speaks during a press conference after the closing ceremony of the National People's Congress held in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.

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Several flights from Chongqing and Guangzhou were forced to land or delayed on Friday after telephone threats were received, airport authorities said.

TOKYO: An aide to Japan's premier said yesterday he had held "sincere" talks with North Korean officials during his controversial visit to the country.