Hong Kong veteran Chan says won't challenge Tsang
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Hong Kong's popular former deputy leader Anson Chan said she would not challenge Beijing-backed Chief Executive Donald Tsang in leadership elections, ending months of speculation.
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro on Monday denied U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain's claim that Cuban agents helped torture American prisoners of war in Vietnam in the 1960s, calling the assertion "a strange legend."
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TAIPEI - Taiwan denied that the island&#39;s nuclear weapons programme - abandoned in the 1980s - involved experimenting with separating plutonium.
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TAIPEI -- Taiwanese voted yesterday not to give President Chen Shui-bian the legislative majority he had sought in a hard-fought campaign as reinforcement for his leadership and endorsement of his plans to edge the self-ruled island closer to independence.
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HONG KONG Brushing aside Chinese warnings of a possible challenge at the World Trade Organization, a senior US trade official said here on Friday that the United States would limit apparel imports if American manufacturers provided evidence that such
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday he did not view China as a strategic adversary of the United States despite Beijing's growing military budget.
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Pol Pot's right-hand man, Nuon Chea, appeared before Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal on Wednesday to request bail, arguing he was not a flight risk and would not try to influence potential witnesses.
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McLaren will not appeal against the spy scandal sanctions imposed by the World Motor Sport Council.
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Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui has strongly defended his visit to a Tokyo war shrine that had angered Beijing and clouded Sino-Japanese ties, and repeated his view that the self-ruled island was independent.
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British Olympic officials insist there is no intention to gag athletes from making political comment in China during the 2008 Games in Beijing.
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A senior U.S. official appointed to a  controversial multi-million dollar project to promote democracy  in Arab countries insists he will not meddle in the politics of  the region.
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A Chinese court on Friday rejected an appeal by a Hong Kong reporter jailed by mainland China on spying charges in one of the highest profile media prosecutions in recent years.
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Former French President Jacques Chirac refuses to be quizzed about an alleged plot to discredit his successor.
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A former Khmer Rouge leader said he will not flee Cambodia to escape justice as he appealed Thursday for his release from pretrial detention
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China on Thursday denied targeting foreign government and military computer networks and said it has not been asked by any nation to investigate alleged hacking.
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Tibet's top government official defended Chinese rule in the Himalayan region on Wednesday and dismissed calls by a veteran Tibetan Communist for the Dalai Lama to return home.
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Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong, jailed in China last month on charges of spying for Taiwan, may not hear his appeal in court, according to a media report quoting his lawyer.