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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said Saturday that the mainland is willing to see the ongoing negotiations of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with Taiwan "smoothly proceed without disturbance so as to achieve results and produce economic benefit soon." Xi made the remarks when meeting with Fredrick Chien, chief advisor of Taiwan's Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation, on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia in southern province of Hainan. ...

ALL good Catholics must make confessions so here's my one for the year: I haven't backed the winner of the Grand National since 1990.

Sri Lanka's ruling alliance United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) continued its lead in the counting of Thursday's parliamentary poll, initial results showed. According to results declared by the Department of Elections, the ruling alliance had bagged 15 seats by winning 62.85 percent or 1.53 million votes as of 10:30 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) on Friday. The main opposition United National Party was trailing behind with five seats or 675,631 votes (27.71 percent). The Democratic National A ...

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Sir Alex Ferguson insists Manchester United will not suffer a hangover from their weekend defeat against Chelsea when they face Bayern Munich at Old Trafford tonight.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Tiger Woods saw it as a gathering of friends and, indeed, it all started with a hug of the first guy he saw wearing a green jacket.

The Philadelphia Eagles have traded Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins for a pair of draft picks.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Suzann Pettersen went for a practically flawless desert drive in the opening round of the season's first major.

AP - IBM Corp. said Tuesday that it is working with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to build an improved security system for the agency's computer networks.

The Indonesian government intends to make the quake-prone West Sumatra province as a pilot project for disaster mitigation model to be applied to the country, hopefully it will also become a model in Southeast Asian region, an Indonesian official said in Jakarta on Tuesday. "With the help of foreign assistance we have been conducting orchestrated efforts, drafting the mitigation procedure to save lives in the disaster hit areas. We have decided to make West Sumatra as a model of disaster miti ...

Following his 2008 collaboration with The Heliocentrics, Ethiopian jazz legend Mulatu Astatke's star has risen appreciably, with last October's New York – Addis – London compilation drawn from his Sixties and Seventies work now followed by Mulatu Steps Ahead, his first new studio album in some time.

As House Democratic leaders worked to secure the votes needed to pass the legislation, they said they would drop a plan to approve the Senate bill without a direct vote.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) warned that China's soaring demand for iron ore is causing a greater reliance on imports. Last year, China purchased nearly 70 percent of its iron ore overseas, a 13 percent increase from 2008, and the import share of world iron ore trade has been amount to 75 percent. Currently, imported iron ore prices have spiked and continue to trend upward. One of the three major international iron ore suppliers, Vale of Brazil, proposed to i ...

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said it might extend a deadline for bids on a new aerial refueling tanker after Airbus parent EADS signalled it could return to the competition. Having been informed by EADS of its possible interest in the contract, the Defense Department "would consider a reasonable extension to the RFP (Request for Proposals) deadline," press [...]US may extend tanker deadline to allow EADS bid is a post from: DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has said his country is ready to learn from China's rapid growth in key areas of developments. Obasanjo made the remarks in an interview with Xinhua on Wednesday when he visited Chinese Consulate General in Lagos, the country's commercial hub. The ex-president said his visit was to wish the Chinese people a happy New Year and voice his support for the forthcoming Shanghai World Expo in China."We will continue to learn from China, because you people ...

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Every NFL quarterback would like his team to get more offensive weapons.

AT the end of a week in which his players publicly traded blows, Phil Brown pulled no punches with his view that some inside Hull City need to maintain perspective.

China's Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang on Monday called for stronger management of social security funds and more efforts to maintain and increase the value of the funds. Given the social security funds had a great bearing on people's livelihoods, management should abide by the rules of prudence to ensure the safety of the assets, said Zhang at a meeting held by the National Council for Social Security Funds in Beijing. Meanwhile, Zhang urged that multiple channels must be explored to enlarge ...

It's official: Glenda Gilson is just like the rest of us. "I'm sick of the sight of myself," the over-exposed Xpose star told me. "I just want to keep out of it all and concentrate on my work life and my home life."

An earthquake, which struck Monywa, Myanmar's northwestern Sagaing division, early Saturday morning, caused no serious damage and casualties, local residents told Xinhua in a telephone interview. The quake was not much felt in the area where population is not dense, said a Monywa resident. An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted Monywa Saturday morning at 5:50 a.m. (Myanmar standard time), according to the Hydrology and Meteorology Department. The quake's ...