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Police in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, said they have subdued the man who hijacked a bus Monday evening. Eight passengers onboard have been rescued and the explosive the man carried has been removed so far, according to an police officer with the city's public security bureau. The man, equipped with explosive and a knife, hijacked the bus carrying eight passengers at around 6:30 p.m. at the Yangluo section of the road from the city's Hankou to Shigang, said the officer. Police are investigating the case. Read More @ Source Breakingviews: China's buildings, boys and big cities The world seems laser-focused on the nation's GDP, but sometimes less-noticed official data tell a bigger story about the nation's development, says Reuters Breakingviews. Video Rating: 4 / 5

The Philippines' sovereignty claim over Huangyan Island is "illegal" and against the basic principles of international relations, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said on Friday. "The Philippines once clearly stated that Huangyan Island in the South China Sea is not part of its territory, but now it swallowed its words and raised illegal territorial claims over an island which belongs to China," Liu said at a regular press briefing. "Such a claim runs against the basic principles of international relations, which require the respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity," he said when asked to comment on Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario's recent accusations against China over the issue. The Philippine side should respect China's sovereignty, avoid actions which would aggravate and complicate the situation so as to resume peace and order in the waters around Huangyan Island, Liu remarked. Some media reports sai...

30 April 2012 Last updated at 17:25 ET Chen Guangcheng (L) was helped in his escape by fellow activist Hu Jia (R), who was later detained US President Barack Obama has refused to comment on Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident said to be at the US embassy after fleeing house arrest. Mr Obama told a news conference he was "aware of press reports" on the issue, but would not make a statement on it. Activists have claimed Mr Chen entered the US embassy in Beijing earlier this month, after slipping out of his home hundreds of kilometres away. US and Chinese officials are thought to be in talks on Mr Chen's fate. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland confirmed that a senior US official, Kurt Campbell, has travelled to Beijing, but declined to say whether he was in discussion about the activist. Mr Campbell, who arrived on an unscheduled visit, is believed to be in highly delicate negotiations with the Chinese authorities about what to do with the...

Tencent's penguin icon. Photos: CFP   The Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province on April 18 began the court's first monopoly case, involving two Chinese Internet giants. Online security service provider Qihoo 360 Technology Co announced on April 13 that it was suing Tencent Holdings, the country's largest Internet company by market value, for abusing its dominant market position in various ways, including forcing users to uninstall Qihoo's anti-virus software. New York-listed Qihoo is claiming 150 million yuan ($ 23.79 million) in compensation from the Hong Kong-listed Tencent, said the court. Debate begins "Since Tencent has a dominant position in the market, most companies choose to accept its requirements, and companies which are opposed to such behavior do not go beyond condemning it," Zhou Hongyi, chairman and CEO of Qihoo, said in an e-mail to the Global Times. "Qihoo 360 hopes this antitrust lawsuit against Tencent can he...

The White House promised "serious consideration" Friday to selling new US fighter jets to Taiwan, winning the support from a senator who had blocked a Pentagon appointment as a protest. Senator John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, released a letter from the White House that said President Barack Obama's administration was "committed to assisting Taiwan" in closing a gap in airpower with China. Cornyn's proposal to sell new F-16C/D jets "warrants serious consideration given the growing military threat to Taiwan," said the letter signed by Robert Nabors, an Obama aide tasked with relations with Congress. Under US law, the administration is required to provide for the self-defense of Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that China claims as its territory. The Obama administration authorized a $ 5.85 billion upgrade of Taiwan's aging fighter jets in September. The deal drew immediate criticism from Obama's Republican rivals, who arg...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao lays a wreath as he visits the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial to commemorate the victims of the Would War II in Auschwitz, south Poland, April 27, 2012. (Xinhua/Ye Pingfan) You might also like： T-shirts investigated for borrowing Chinese premier's popularity Geologist Wen Jiabao visits Iceland Death camp exhibit opens in Shanghai Wen quiet on Bo Xilai during Iceland trip ...

30 April 2012 Last updated at 03:59 ET South Korea has arrested nine Chinese sailors after officials were injured when they boarded a ship suspected of illegal fishing in the Yellow Sea. Four South Koreans were injured in a fight involving Chinese sailors armed with clubs and knives, South Korea's coast guard says. The 227-ton vessel was spotted near Heuksan island, 72km (44.7 miles) north-west of South Jeolla province. There have been several confrontations over illegal fishing in the Yellow Sea. The South Korean coast guard said it rescued one official who fell overboard. Three others sustained injuries while on board, according to officials. "The Chinese sailors were seized while trying to escape. They are being taken to our base," a spokesman from the coast guard told news agency Agence-France Presse. This incident comes just over a week after the sentencing of a Chinese fisherman who killed a South Korean coast guard in December 2011. On 1...

30 April 2012 Last updated at 13:09 China plans to launch 35 navigation satellites China has moved a step closer to completing its own navigation and positioning satellite network with the launch of two more navigation satellites. It brings the Beidou system, which became operational with coverage of China last December, to 13 satellites. To have global coverage, the country eventually aims to have 35 satellites in orbit by 2020. China hopes that Beidou will wean it off the US Global Positioning System. Just like GPS, the Chinese system is designed to let users determine their positions to within a few meters. Beidou, also known as Compass, has been developed for both military and civilian uses. The two satellites went up on Monday morning from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest Sichuan province. They were carried on a Long March-3B rocket, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. "The two satellites will help improve the accuracy ...

THE death toll from a knife attack yesterday in southwest China's Yunnan province has risen to two after another victim died in hospital last night, local authorities said today. A knife-wielding man, surnamed Yin, attacked five people near a coach station in the county seat of Fuyuan yesterday noon. He was seized by an auxiliary police officer and a taxi driver, according to a spokesman with the county's international communication office. Yang Lihou, the taxi driver, and Jin Haoran, a pedestrian, died yesterday afternoon and yesterday night, respectively, after treatments failed, said the spokesman. The other four injured people are receiving treatment in the People's Hospital of Fuyuan County, and two of them remain in critical conditions, he said. Local police have detained Yin and are investigating the attack. Source: Shanghai Daily You might also like： ...