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China orders cutback on TV entertainment
Oct 25, 2011 05:49 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will limit the number of entertainment programs allowed to air on television, from match-making game shows to dance broadcasts, and push to replace them with morality-building programing, Chinese media reported on Tuesday.
North Korea's Kim calls for nuclear talks, doubts on uranium
Oct 25, 2011 04:50 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il told Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang that a stalled 2005 deal should be the basis for fresh talks about the North's nuclear program, Chinese media reported, leaving unanswered the key question of uranium enrichment.
A quarter of Chinese women suffer domestic abuse
Oct 21, 2011 04:13 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - A quarter of Chinese women have suffered domestic abuse, the government said in a survey issued Friday, showing the ongoing struggle of women in a society in which Chairman Mao Zedong once famously said women hold up half the sky.
Central Taiwan seen as election key as China frets
Oct 21, 2011 00:11 EDT
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) - Taiwan's semi-rural central plains, dotted with rice paddies and brightly coloured temples, is the battleground in a presidential poll that will set the tone of the island's prickly relations with China for the next four years.
China says to get tough after Tibetan burnings
Oct 20, 2011 04:49 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said Thursday the government of a restive, heavily Tibetan part of the country would take tough measures to ensure stability after a spate of self-immolations in protest at Chinese controls.
Pumping of oil resumes from stricken ship off New Zealand
Oct 19, 2011 23:44 EDT
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The recovery of fuel oil from a stricken container ship grounded off New Zealand resumed on Thursday as salvage teams worked to minimize the damage in the country's worst environmental disaster in decades.
China sets in motion plan for 2012 succession meeting
Oct 18, 2011 10:00 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's leaders ended their latest closed-door conclave on Tuesday with a decision to hold a Communist Party congress in the second half of 2012 to install successors to President Hu Jintao's generation.
No "big bang" expected from Durban climate talks: EU
Oct 18, 2011 08:32 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - Global climate talks in South Africa next month will not produce a "big bang" capable of producing a new and binding pact to slash greenhouse gases, but steady progress could be made, a senior European climate official said on Tuesday.
Hit and run in China sparks soul-searching
Oct 17, 2011 07:49 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - Video footage of a two-year-old child run over by a van and ignored by passersby in China has ignited public uproar for what some are calling the immorality of modern society.
North Korea and U.S. to meet in Geneva next week: report
Oct 17, 2011 03:02 EDT
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea and the United States will hold a second round of talks in Geneva next week to discuss ways to restart regional talks on disabling North Korea's nuclear weapons program, South Korean media reported Monday.
Flaxseed may not cool hot flashes: study
Oct 14, 2011 01:38 EDT
(Reuters) - Eating flaxseed may not ease menopausal hot flashes after all, despite some promising early evidence that it might, according to a U.S. study.
Big quake strikes PNG, no report of damage
Oct 14, 2011 00:38 EDT
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck Friday near a major town in the Pacific state of Papua New Guinea, the United States Geological Survey said.
Big quake strikes PNG, no report of damage
Oct 14, 2011 00:38 EDT
CANBERRA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck Friday near a major town in the Pacific state of Papua New Guinea, the United States Geological Survey said.
Superman fan takes adulation to new heights
Oct 13, 2011 09:24 EDT
CALAMBA CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Filipino designer Herbert Chavez has taken his love for Superman up, up and away, undergoing cosmetic surgery to look like the Man of Steel.
Many cancer survivors struggle with trauma stress: study
Oct 12, 2011 22:39 EDT
(Reuters) - A cancer diagnosis can leave lasting psychological scars akin to those inflicted by war, with the impact in some cases lasting for years, U.S. researchers found in a study.
Myanmar likely to free "prisoners of conscience"
Oct 11, 2011 09:38 EDT
YANGON (Reuters) - Reclusive Myanmar is expected to release a number of political detainees on Wednesday under an amnesty for thousands of prisoners announced after the national human rights commission urged the president to free "prisoners of conscience".
Pakistan's governor escapes missile attack
Oct 11, 2011 09:11 EDT
KALAYA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants fired two missiles at a rally led by the governor of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four, but the governor was not hurt, security officials said.
China media liken U.S. yuan bill to Great Depression act
Oct 11, 2011 05:38 EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's state-run news agency scorned on Tuesday U.S. legislation aiming to press it to raise the value of its yuan currency as dangerous pandering to protectionism, likening it to the Smoot-Hawley Act blamed for fanning the Great Depression.
Pakistan's governor escapes missile attack
Oct 11, 2011 04:14 EDT
KALAYA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants fired two missiles at a rally led by the governor of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four, but the governor was not hurt, security officials said.
Hong Kong teen's somber design for Jobs a cyber hit
Oct 06, 2011 07:45 EDT
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong design student's poignant tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs became an internet hit Thursday with its minimalist, touching symbolism and brought a job offer and a flood of commemorative merchandise using his design.
