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When Ban Ki Moon received word last week that North Korea might be planning to test a nuclear device, he had reason to be anxious. As South Korea's Foreign Minister, Ban is a key player in the six-party talks aimed at finding a diplomatic solution to the dispute...
Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China's Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in...
Next time the waiter brings you the billfold after a meal at a Shangri-La hotel, be sure to dig deep. The Asia-Pacific hotel chain is running a charitable drive, entitled Dare to Care, at around 40 of its properties, from Dubai to Sydney. Guests put their donations into...
When he's not using funding as a carrot, Wen, 34, isn't afraid to reach for a verbal stick. He recently told the Los Angeles Times that the Chinese government's goal of achieving about 230 pollution-free days a year in Beijing in time for the 2008 Olympics...
It helps as well that the soft-spoken and French-fluent minister seems incapable of making enemies. Though relations between South Korea and Japan are worse today than they have been in decades, Japanese diplomats generally like the 62-year-old Ban himself. That matters, as Japan is currently holds...