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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Taiwan Sun.com http://www.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/4a8b544d0e80ba53/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:55 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:38:55 -0500 30 Australia made 216 for five in 32 overs in the ODI tri-series opener against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here Sunday, setting India a 218-run target according to the Duckworth-Lewis method. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203247373/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:20:01 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203247373/cs/1/ China is planning to carry out a special campaign to check safety issues of high-speed trains this year. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203245952/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:12 -0500 ANI http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203245952/cs/1/ Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down in the wake of his government's deadly crackdown on protestors. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243199/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:20:02 -0500 ANI http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243199/cs/1/ As a UN Security Council draft resolution to pressure Syria failed after China and Russia voted against it, India said it backed the motion as it favoured resolving the crisis through a Syrian-led inc http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243118/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243118/cs/1/ India put Australia into bat in the opening match of the Commonwealth Bank Series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here Sunday. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242470/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:40:02 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242470/cs/1/ A man in southwest China has been detained for allegedly drowning his two-year-old stepdaughter in a washing machine to collect life insurance payouts. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203231176/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203231176/cs/1/ German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday concluded her three-day visit to China. It was her fifth official visit to the country, Global Times reports. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203231159/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:40:03 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203231159/cs/1/ Virat Kohli will be the highest-ranked batsman in the ODI tri-series that starts Sunday with a clash between India and Australia in Melbourne. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227364/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:10:09 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227364/cs/1/ China is paying an increasing price for environmental and ecological damage brought about by rapid economic development, a report has claimed. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227352/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:50:08 -0500 ANI http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227352/cs/1/ Temperatures in most parts of China will drop by up to 14 degrees Celsius in the next three days, further intensifying the cold front sweeping the country, the meteorological authority said Saturday. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227346/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:40:06 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227346/cs/1/ A coal mine gas explosion left 13 people dead in southwest China, authorities said Saturday. http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227344/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:40:02 -0500 IANS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203227344/cs/1/ BEIJING (Reuters) - Three Tibetans in southwestern China have set themselves ablaze in protest against Chinese rule, Radio Free Asia reported, the latest in a series of self-immolations over the ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246229/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:45:23 -0500 West Australian http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246229/ SYDNEY (AFP) - Protestors stormed Syria's Australian embassy and trashed its lower level, as the Syrian opposition said troops had killed more than 260 people in shelling the city of Homs, ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246230/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:45:15 -0500 West Australian http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246230/ After several failed attempts play was restarted at 6.18pm (AEST) - more than three hours after the players left the field.The game was shortened to 32 overs per team.Rain stopped play early and ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246232/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:42:00 -0500 SBS http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246232/ Western and Arab powers have reacted angrily to Russia and China's veto of a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis, but Moscow and Beijing insisted the text had needed more ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246228/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:10:46 -0500 IOL http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246228/ STRONG winds have forced rescuers to suspend their aerial search for survivors of the MV Rabaul Queen ferry disaster off the coast of Papua New Guinea, as hopes fade for the more than 100 people ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246098/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:05:53 -0500 News.com.au http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246098/ A farmer is seen following her flock of sheep near a fenced-off canal that is part of China's hugely ambitious South-North Water Diversion Project, in Yixian, in 2009, in northern China's ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246105/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:54:21 -0500 Yahoo!7 News http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246105/ heavy snowfall and severe weather warnings, London's Heathrow Airport cancelled 30 per cent of flights that were scheduled to take off on Sunday. The world's busiest international ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246225/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:35:04 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246225/ Mitt Romney cruised to victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, notching a second straight triumph over a field of rivals suddenly struggling to keep pace. The caucuses drew little attention ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246226/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:34:58 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246226/ Chinese language at school level across the country and this programme would soon be initiated. She added that steps were being taken to promote Chinese language among the people, reported ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246227/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:34:53 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203246227/ HONG KONG (AFP) - A bitter family feud between Hong Kongers and their northern neighbours sparked by mainland China's increasing financial and political clout has led to an awkward debate about ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244898/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:51:29 -0500 West Australian http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244898/ UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia and China vetoed on Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to end his ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244897/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:51:25 -0500 West Australian http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244897/ Almost 600 people have been returned to safety Sunday following a 13-hour operation to rescue them from an area buffeted by high winds in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, rescuers told ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244913/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:39:00 -0500 Global Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244913/ TOKYO: Tokyo and Washington have agreed to move 4,700 Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam in a bid to revive a stalled plan for the realignment of US forces in Japan, reports said ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244894/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:32:10 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244894/ GEBENG, Malaysia: China's chokehold on the rare earths vital for everything from iPods to missiles is widely expected to end soon, thanks in large part to a contentious new plant in ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244896/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:32:06 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244896/ Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- China’s economy may be headed for a "rough landing," Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244678/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:31:40 -0500 Business Week http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244678/ Taiwan Premier-designate Sean Chen reiterated yesterday that the government has not taken any stance concerning the controversies over U.S. beef imports ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244704/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:30:42 -0500 Asia News Network http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244704/ Jobi Wall and David Downs combined for 46 points Saturday — 33 coming via three-pointers — as the Seattle Pacific men shot down Alaska Fairbanks 79-53 in a Great Northwest Athletic ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244891/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:29:20 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244891/ Daytime chat show host Ellen Degeneres challenged the US first lady, who was on the programme promoting her healthy eating and fitness program, to a push up contest to prove she practiced what she ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244904/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:38:31 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244904/ WELLINGTON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The number of new homes being built in New Zealand last year was the lowest in almost 50 years, prompting fears for jobs in the construction industry. While the ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244908/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:38:29 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244908/ SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Defense officials of South Korea, the United States and Japan said they believe the new leadership in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244906/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:38:27 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244906/ SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambaev exchanged messages Tuesday in celebration of the 20th anniversary of diplomatic ties ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244909/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:38:26 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203244909/ Demand for shark fin soup, once a dish for Ming Dynasty emperors, has skyrocketed in the last several decades as more people can afford to serve it at business banquets and wedding feasts, thanks to ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243721/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:44:52 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243721/ India's Suresh Raina (left) celebrates with his teammate Manoj Tiwary after catching Australia's Ricky Ponting out during the first ODI of the tri-series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243728/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:42:23 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243728/ India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in the Tri-Series opener. Australia had a setback earlier Sunday when veteran paceman Brett Lee was ruled out for up ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243727/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:09:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243727/ TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" to ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243726/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:08:27 -0500 News and Sentinel http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243726/ As a country importing 11 per cent of its oil from Iran, the latest American and European move to isolate Iran has put China in a quandary. Should it join the West with which it has close economic ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243720/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:05:34 -0500 Khaleej Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243720/ For years, in the village of Juz Ghoray, at the remote fringes of the Musa Qala District in northern Helmand Province, the Taliban enjoyed free rein, collecting taxes from local poppy farmers and ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243724/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:21:31 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203243724/ Demonstrators have stormed Syrian embassies in Europe, the Middle East and Australia after Syrian forces reportedly killed more than 200 people in the city of Homs. British police used batons to ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242152/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:17:34 -0500 Ya Libnan http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242152/ Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242022/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242022/ As the one-year anniversary of the devastating March 11, 2011, Japanese earthquake approaches, and debris from the ensuing tsunami moves closer to the West Coast, a group of Oregon agencies, ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242200/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:52:19 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242200/ Kandahar, in the heart of the Taliban's spiritual homeland, is Afghanistan's bustling southern metropolis. The city has witnessed brutality and bloodshed over the years, but a recent lull ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242198/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:26:57 -0500 BBC http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242198/ oil companies in the country operate oil and gas fields at full output, state news agency Telam said on Saturday, a day after the government cut $461 million in annual tax breaks for big fuel firms ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242201/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:03:45 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203242201/ China has withdrawn support for foreign investment in auto manufacturing under new rules that took effect on Monday, as it seeks to encourage the domestic industry in the world's largest car ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240006/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:16:06 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240006/ Barack Obama , did not stop at that. Backed by applause, he went on to sharply criticize Chinese Navy's "aggressive behaviour" in international waters, especially in the South China ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240333/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:57:41 -0500 Times Of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240333/ Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he hopes trade volume between China and Germany exceeds $200 billion this year. Wen's remarks came while talking with visiting German ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240339/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:50:34 -0500 UPI http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240339/ NEW Zealand Prime Minister John Key has been bustled into a car after a welcome onto the Te Tii Marae traditional meeting place in the Bay of Islands turned ugly on ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240336/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:43:02 -0500 News.com.au http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240336/ The 38-year-old Megaupload founder, who was again denied bail on Friday, will fight to get back millions of dollars seized in worldwide raids late last month.Papers have been filed in the Auckland ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240337/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:42:58 -0500 News.com.au http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240337/ A new Japanese model? Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of up-and-coming e-retailer Rakuten, believes Japan's big industrial firms 'cannot keep doing what they have been doing.' ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240288/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:41:12 -0500 The Guardian http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240288/ Siquijor is one of more than 7,000 islands in the Philippines - it has tropical sun, white sand and an azure sea, but it is also famous for witchcraft. How do you go about looking for a witch? It ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203239905/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:33:23 -0500 BBC http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203239905/ Afghanistan . The unusual message kicked off a debate within the administration about whether it was truly authored by Omar - and its meaning for US efforts to forge a negotiated end to ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240328/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:10:40 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240328/ Geophysical Research Letters journal reported. The three-year-long research found that the surface of Mars had been dry for such a long time that ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240329/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:10:22 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240329/ Persian Gulf have been in the works for weeks. State media said that ground forces began maneuvers in southern Iran, but it was not immediately clear whether it was part of the planned naval ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240331/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:10:08 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240331/ SEATTLE - This is the University of Washington's new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240263/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:54:37 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240263/ UN, February 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Irritation close to hysteria was a response from some members of the UN Security Council to firm and principle position of Russia and China, which blocked the ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238863/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:22:37 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238863/ WASHINGTON - The United States' plan to wind down its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier than expected relies on shifting responsibility to Special Operations forces that hunt insurgent ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240335/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:10:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203240335/ Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Lightspeed Venture Partners, an investor in LivingSocial.com, has almost completed raising two funds, one in the U.S. and one in China, totaling about $875 million, according ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238861/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:02:47 -0500 BusinessWeek http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238861/ China have been removed from their jobs in the wake of a toxic heavy metal spill that fouled drinking water supplies for tens of millions of people, the state news media reported ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238636/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:55:23 -0500 New York Times http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238636/ Vitaly Churkin justified the veto by saying the proposed resolution "sent an unbalanced signal to the Syrian parties". His Chinese counterpart Li Baodong said pushing through such "a ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238857/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:23:03 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238857/ Syria crisis , saying it encouraged the Syrian regime crackdown. "The Syrian tragedy must stop," said Sarkozy in a statement issued through his office. Sarkozy "strongly deplores the ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238858/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:22:57 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238858/ tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at a shallow depth of 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) with the epicenter located 204 kilometers south of the town of Port Hardy on the island, and about 350 ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238859/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:22:38 -0500 Times of India http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238859/ KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan woman has been strangled to death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he wanted, police said ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238869/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:11 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238869/ PARIS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Four French troops were shot dead by a man dressed as an Afghan soldier in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, French media RFI reported. "A man wearing Afghan army ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238870/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:09 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238870/ KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 (Xinhua) -- Malaysian prosecutors on Friday appealed against a high court verdict to acquit opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy. The criminal registrar confirmed that the ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238871/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:08 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238871/ COLOMBO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's police are getting tough on traffic offenders as road accident death toll of children continued to climb, an official said here Friday. Police ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238872/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:07 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238872/ TOKYO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Japan's government on Friday decided that it would extend tours of duty for its Self-Defense Forces who are in Haiti and Golan Heights on United Nations-led peace ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238873/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:05 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238873/ TOKYO, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Japan will hold a memorial ceremony on March 11 this year to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which devastated northeastern Japan, said Chief ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238874/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:04 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238874/ NEW DELHI, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Dense fog continued to play havoc for the third day in a row this week on Friday in the Indian capital, disrupting air and train services this morning even as the city ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238876/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:03 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238876/ PHNOM PENH, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia, as ASEAN chair, on Friday sent letters to the five nuclear powerful countries, asking them to sign the protocol on the Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapon Free ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238875/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:01 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238875/ BAMAKO, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Clashes between Mali government forces and rebels in the north of the country have killed 47, the military said Thursday. Fires breaking out Wednesday in Aguelhok and ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238877/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:00 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238877/ By Feng Yingqiu YANGON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The two-day peace talks between Myanmar's central government and the Kachin ethnic armed group -- Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), which ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238878/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:15:58 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238878/ YANGON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar and India have vowed to ensure everlasting border stability, friendship and bilateral cooperation between the two countries, official media reported Friday. It ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238879/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:15:57 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238879/ SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- South Korea allowed a civic group to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) next week to deliver flour aid, the government said Friday. Some 180 tons ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238880/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:15:56 -0500 SINA http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203238880/ US Senator John McCain speaks in Beijing on April 9, 2009, where he was joined by Senators Lindsey Graham and Amy Klobuchar for a press conference at the US Embassy during the China stop of the ... http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203237207/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:08:32 -0500 Vancouver Sun http://story.taiwansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/4a8b544d0e80ba53/id/203237207/