Hu Jintao News

Beijing has communicated to New Delhi that it respects its stance that there was no role for any third party in mediation of Indo-Pak affairs, Indian government sources said.

Collaboration and partnership between China and the United Sates are absolutely critical to a meaningful, substantive and programmatic climate solution, a U.S. environment expert has said.

China's top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, met with French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia Adolphe Colrat on Friday.

China's top political adviser Jia Qinglin met Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo here on Friday, pledging further efforts to bolster bilateral ties.

SRINAGAR: Scheduled to visit China, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq stoked further controversy saying Beijing has a "stake" in regional peace as certain parts of Kashmir are under its control.

China and Sudan have agreed to further enhance cooperation on agriculture during the visit to Khartoum by Zhou Yongkang, a senior leader of the Communist Party of China , said sources with the International Department of the CPC Central Committee on Thursday.

An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early on Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television said, the latest deadly incident to hit the industry.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told visiting Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi that he would attend the World Expo in Shanghai next year and invited Premier Wen Jiabao to visit Tokyo before that.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met here Saturday morning with Chief Executive Donald Tsang of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

President Barack Obama went to Beijing with a broad array of issues to put before China's leaders.

EFFORTS to craft a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen next month will certainly "yield a success", the UN's top climate official has pledged.

Two senators who authored legislation aimed at pressuring China to lift the value of its yuan said on Thursday they asked the Commerce Department to investigate alleged Chinese currency "manipulation." Sen.

THE Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Singapore last week succeeded in becoming an extension of the G-20. It embraced a new economic paradigm based on re-balancing global growth, inclusiveness of prosperity and sustainable growth.

What is it about climate change that political leaders around the world fail to understand? Huge international hopes were placed on the summit in Copenhagen next month.

President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao recently announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy.

Presidents of China and Russia Wednesday sent congratulatory messages to the China-Russia Friendship Committee for Peace and Development on the opening of its eighth plenary meeting in Beijing.

The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said Tuesday.

Something got lost in transit in US President Barack Obama's visit to China -- the charismatic rhetoric and dominance of mass communication that took him from nowhere to the White House.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said on Wednesday that he would not meet the Dalai Lama when he visits the country next month.

Spot gold rose as high as $1,143.95 per ounce in early Asia trade, settling later just above $1,140, with expectations for a continued weakness in the US currency also providing a support.