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Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya held talks with visiting U.S...Negroponte Wednesday morning. "Since you have participated and experienced the normalization of Sino-U.S. ties, your attendance at the celebrating activities is of special importance," Wang said in his opening remarks....

State Department said in a statement, adding that shipment will also be distributed by U.S...It had offered food aid from 1995 to 2005, when the program was suspended after Pyongyang expelled representatives of the World Food Program.

South Korea said on Wednesday it has urged Japan not to carry out scientific research near a cluster of islets at the centre of a long-running territorial dispute between the two countries. The foreign ministry said it had delivered a...

One of the suspects involved in the controversial drug case is a user and a pusher, a relative disclosed Wednesday. Anthony Brodett, cousin of Richard Brodett, told lawmakers at the House of Representatives investigating the case that he has known...

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr on Wednesday proposed calling a national convention to enable the opposition to select its common ticket to include the presidential, vice presidential and senatorial slots for the 2010 elections. Pimentel said the political opposition...

Witnesses told The Post Courier newspaper that the woman, aged between 16 and 20, was stripped, blindfolded, gagged and tied to a pole on Tuesday. "The girl was stripped naked and could not shout for assistance or resist as she...

NPR.org , January 6, 2009 · The auto industry continues to take a beating as U.S. sales plummeted 18 percent last year and General Motors Corp. recorded its worst year in sales in nearly 50 years. U.S. sales fell to...

Diane Lee vows to prove loss of U.S. citizenship by Jan. 31 In her first public appearance after being barred by prosecutors from traveling abroad to facilitate an investigation into her alleged dual nationality, Lee said she has no intention...