These are the ‘gifts’ prosecutors say a former aide to New York’s governor received from the Chinese government
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Zoo to send giant pandas back to China because they’re too expensive to keep
Helsinki, Finland — Finland will return two giant pandas to China in November, more than eight years ahead of time, as the zoo where they live can no longer afford their upkeep, the chair of the zoo’s board told Reuters on Tuesday.
Fruit and seafood are the latest front in escalating Taiwan-China tensions
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan said Thursday that China’s ban on imports of its fruit, vegetables, seafood and other goods violates trade rules, in the latest escalation of tensions between the self-governing island republic and its massive neighbor, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and has vowed to annex it by military means.
US ambassador to Singapore hails ties, concerned by China’s ‘unnecessarily provocative’ actions
The ambassador also assured partners at the summit that the US would continue to support the region, regardless of the outcome of its presidential election.
An American pastor detained in China for nearly 20 years has been released
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Christian pastor from California has been freed from China after nearly 20 years behind bars and is back home in the U.S., the State Department said Monday.
James Sasser, Senator and Clinton’s Envoy to China, Dies at 87
James Sasser, a three-term Democratic senator from Tennessee who, with no background in diplomacy or Chinese affairs, thrived as President Bill Clinton’s ambassador to China in the late 1990s until a bombing in Europe left angry mobs besieging his embassy, died on Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 87.
Afghanistan’s Norway embassy is closing this week, a statement from the mission says
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Norway embassy is closing, the country’s second diplomatic mission to announce closure this week.
‘It’s a dream’: Filipinos in Singapore rejoice at once in a lifetime chance to see pope
The two women and Singaporean engineer Raphael Lau, who will serve as a communion minister during the mass, have taken time off work to serve as volunteers and to rehearse their roles for the first visit by a pope to the island republic in 38 years.