Threat to hit Shanghai bares splittist motive
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China on Wednesday accused Taiwan &quot;Premier&quot; Yu Shyi-kun of clamoring for war with threats to fire missiles at Shanghai if the People&#39;s Liberation Army (PLA) attacks the island.
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China's ruling Communist Party vowed on   Tuesday to get to the bottom of a corruption scandal that has   toppled Shanghai's top official, while fending off questions   about the case that may bring down more leaders.
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Shanghai is selling off assets of more than 40 state-owned companies, including electronics firms, a hotel and a stake in a major brokerage, hoping to bring in more foreign financing and expertise, the city says.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Chinese investigators has ruled out the possibility of man-made destruction for the air crash killing all 53 people aboard a commuter plane and one more people on the ground in Baotou City, north China&#39;s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Sunday morning
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Islamic militants are still holding two Chinese engineers they kidnapped in Pakistan and have threatened to kill them if attacked by security forces, a member of a team seeking the captives&#39; release said on Sunday.
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When the leaders of the People&#39;s Republic of China insist that the pre-condition for the peaceful resolution of the decades-long face-off across the Taiwan Strait can only be &quot;one China,&quot; they are making it quite clear that &quot;unification,&quot; and not peace
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Another senior Communist Party official is implicated in Shanghai's financial scandal, a city official says.
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Insurgents in Iraq threatened on  Tuesday to kill eight Chinese hostages as Baghdad officials  said they would close land borders and restrict traffic across  the country in a bid to thwart attacks during next week's  election.
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Analysts fear emergency rule may be imposed as anger grows on streets and in ruling party.
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Suspected Islamic extremists were planning attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant, Spain's El Pais newspaper reports. Subways were preferred targets because access by emergency crews would be difficult, the paper reports.
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Kidnappers believed to be linked to al Qaeda are threatening to kill two Chinese engineers unless several al Qaeda members held by Pakistan are released, according to officials in the country.
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SHANGHAI, China - It was a sight. The buses weren&#39;t going anywhere immediately, put it that way. All around the wide-eyed basketball players riding inside, the people of Shanghai crowded in, waving, screaming
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Russia&#39;s threat to target &quot;terrorists anywhere&quot; is a danger to Britain, Europe and the rest of the world, a top Chechen separatist based in the UK has warned.
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CHAGMALAI, Pakistan  - Islamic militants holding  two Chinese engineers hostage in Pakistan threatened to kill  one on Monday unless security forces ended a siege of their  hideout, a tactic the interior minister said had echoes of  Iraq.
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MG Rover yesterday played down reports that China&#39;s most powerful home grown carmaker, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, was planning to take over the British group.
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By Michael Casey, Associated Press  ZHEN