'While wishing the Tibetan leader a long and healthy life, one can hope for a 'selection' of the Tibetan leader in the Indian Himalayas.' 'It is vital for Tibetan Buddhism, but it is also in India's political interests,' says Claude Arpi.
The second Cambodian king in over 60 years, Sihamoni, 51, is son of Sihanouk and Queen Monineath.
The boat named 'Baohua' has 698 passengers and 47 crew members, Xinhua news agency said.
But a report in a government owned newspaper is silent about China's 'all-weather' friend Pakistan's role in the development of the fighter plane.
The task of the alliance is to prevent hacking attacks from foreign countries.
The epidemic had forced the government to sack the health minister as well as the mayor of Beijing.
The miners were working beneath the shaft of Tengda, a township-run coal mine, when the flooding occurred around 0530 IST and have remained out of contact ever since, they added.
The calf weighs 23 kg, is 86 cm long and 62.5 cm tall.
These include 15 headless bodies found inside an abandoned army base in Latifiya.
Trump is demanding China to reduce the $375 billion trade deficit and protection of Intellectual Property Rights, technology transfer and more access to American goods to Chinese markets.
Amid reports of frequent incursions by Chinese troops along the Line of Actual Control, Chinese state media said it was "unwise" to let the "isolated incidents" to affect the "promising" Sino-India ties. While the Chinese Foreign and defence ministries were yet to respond to queries relating to the fresh reports of incursions in Ladakh sector, a commentary in the state-run Xinhua news agency accused the Indian media of putting out "sensational reports", "harming" the bilateral relations.
The NDB will have an initial authorised capital of $100 billion.
China Telecom, the country's leading telecom carrier, has invested US $17 million to set telephone networks
China on Sunday said a 46-year-old Indian and 19 other foreigners, who were deported being arrested for alleged terror links, watched video clips that "advocate terrorism and religious extremism" and admitted to their "illegal acts".
A former secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China was on Monday sentenced to 5 years in prison for dereliction of duty in one of the largest election frauds in the country, involving a bribery of more than USD 18 million.
Global steel giant Mittal Steel Co has bought its first stake in China's steel industry, purchasing a 37 per cent share of a state-owned steel mill, a news report said on Friday.
Statements emanating from the recent Chinese Communist party congress suggest potentially increasing pressure on India with regard to the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, notes former RAW officer Jayadeva Ranade.
Powerful explosions tore through a warehouse storing hazardous chemicals in north China's major port city, killing at least 50 people and injuring over 700 others as the twin blasts sent fireballs, cars and containers raining down on panic-stricken residents.
The one-armed robot, code named 'Super-D', is expected to serve at airports and in other public places.
Illegal gambling on the cup is prevalent in countries like Thailand and Malaysia, where football is hugely popular, but which don't have legal betting alternatives, gambling industry experts say.
The CRJ-200 plane was en route to the eastern metropolis Shanghai, it said.
The Microsoft move comes as it faced anti-monopoly probe.
A total of 1,850 houses were destroyed and 6,350 houses and 12 public buildings were damaged after two fuel trains collided.
Forty-eight miners were working underground when the blast occurred.
At least 26 workers were killed and 50 others injured when a major fire engulfed a coal mine in China's north-eastern Liaoning province on Wednesday soon after a mild earthquake jolted the region, in one of the worst mine accidents in the country in recent years.
The accident occurred on a mountain highway in the outlying Qianjiang district at 0250 hrs local time [1220 IST].
The boats, two from China's southern Guangdong Province, were lost on Sunday as they attempted to navigate gales near the disputed islands called Xisha by China and Paracel by Vietnam Islands about 330 km from China's island province of Hainan, Chinese officials in Hainan said.
Zhang Shuai was aware of the risks involved when she opted to "Fly Alone" two months ago but the 24-year-old Chinese now stands vindicated after winning her maiden WTA Tour title on Saturday.
The programme is named the Chang'e, referring to a goddess who flew to the moon in an ancient Chinese fairytale.
China on Monday published photographs of the Earth and Moon together taken by the orbiting service module of the country's first unmanned lunar orbiter, which returned to Earth earlier this month.
The mudslide occurred on Sunday in Taining County, where about one lakh cubic meters of mud and rocks flowed downhill, burying a temporary shed at the hydropower station construction site and damaging its offices.
Typhoon Meranti, stated to be the world's strongest typhoon so far this year, made landfall in east China's Fujian Province early Thursday, causing widespread destruction.
China, the world's second largest economy, in a rare move on Monday lowered its GDP for 2012 by 0.1 percentage point to 7.7 per cent, the lowest in 14 years as the communist giant grapples with economic slowdown.
'I think we will be able to depend on ourselves,'believes Interim Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Nakib.
Police, however, said the crash was not intentional and it was an accident and not an attack, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Zheng He commanded seven historic overseas voyages, including the one to India.
Rochelle Macfarlane Maria won the silver in girl's triple jump to end India's controversy-marred track and field campaign on a high at the second Asian Youth Games in Nanjing.
Weightlifter Venkat Rahul Ragala clinched a gold medal in the 77kg category while Shainki Nagar won a silver in the 10m air pistol as India swelled its medal tally to eight at the second Youth Asian Games, in Nanjing, China, on Wednesday.
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