China's ping-pong diplomat left out in the cold
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Zhuang Zedong is highly unlikely to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, but there was a time when he would have been the natural choice.
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"Responsible authorities recognized that this person was engaging in undiplomatic behavior and has to leave Iran"  Iran has expelled a German diplomat for 'undiplomatic' behavior, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.The expulsion comes after a media report claiming that Germany expelled an Iranian consular attache last July after he apparently attempted to acquire equipment that could be used for uranium enrichment. Both the Foreign Ministry in Berlin and Iran have declined to comment on the report, which cited no sources.On Sunday, a German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said she could only 'confirm that a German diplomat has left Iran.' The spokeswoman, who declined to elaborate, spoke on condition of anonymity because of ministry rules. Read more
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(Corrects paragraphs 7-8 to show comments were made by Chinaâs ambassador, not Russiaâs; inserts paragraph 6)
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Â· Chinese most exposed to displacement for games Â· 1,000 Londoners may have to move, says report
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In a rare move for a Chinese politician, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao apologized Tuesday to the hundreds of thousands of people stranded in train stations across the country as the worst winter weather in half a century -- combined with crippling power problems -- nearly brought travel to a standstill for millions trying to go home for the Chinese New Year holiday.
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- Government officials from a county in northeastern China's Liaoning province were not pleased by a magazine story criticizing their local Communist Party leader. So they traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest the author.
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Trying to keep a low pre-Olympic profile, Beijing is enlisting help from abroad to discourage Taiwan's separatist president
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The chances of an unexpected conflict across the Taiwan Strait have diminished with the retirement of China&#39;s former President Jiang Zemin (æ±æ¾¤æ°) from his post as military chief, a high ranking official from the Mainland Affairs Council contended
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Taiwan's Foreign Minister Mark Chen left on a trip to Grenada three days early in order to see what help Taiwan could offer the Caribbean island devastated by a recent hurricane, a Taiwan spokesman said on Sunday.
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China's Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed U.S. allegations of Chinese spying as "Cold War thinking" and said the arrests of four Chinese nationals on espionage charges were "groundless".
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A cold snap brought snow to the Chinese capital this week, but the freezing temperatures did nothing to slow the frenzied preparations for the Beijing Olympics as the 200-day countdown approached.
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Japan today summoned a Chinese diplomat after identifying a submarine that intruded its waters as Chinese. &quot;We have judged the submarine to belong to the Chinese navy and it&#39;s likely the submarine was a nuclear
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BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- For years, Ambassador Li Bin was China's go-to diplomat for the tense Korean Peninsula. After studies in North Korea, Li had served several tours in the Chinese embassies in Pyongyang and Seoul. Fluent in Korean and gregarious in nature, he also struck up an unusually personal...
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wrapped up his three-day official visit to Russia and left Moscow Saturday for home. During his visit to Russia, Wen held talks with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov during
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MINNEAPOLIS -- A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.
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Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi on  Thursday left President George W. Bush &quot;disappointed&quot; over  Beijing&#39;s reluctance to open its markets and faced more  complaints from the U.S. Congress about China&#39;s trade and  currency policies.
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A top Chinese nuclear envoy arrived in   South Korea on Friday to help spur stalled talks on ending   North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, with Washington   growing weary of Pyongyang's refusal to return to the table.