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The foreign ministry said Liu Giujin was ambassador to Zimbabwe and South Africa and is “an experienced diplomat (who) knows African affairs well”.

David Wynford, the chairman of the general meeting of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), has proposed to Japan and Korea that the name of sea between the two countries be completely omitted

“Our reaction to it is, we are going to reach out to China and engage with them. If they want to exercise together, I’m prepared to exercise right now,” said Lieutenant-General John Goodman, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces in the Pacific.

The United States welcomed on Thursday China’s decision to appoint a veteran diplomat as Africa envoy to focus on ending the crisis in Darfur, but it urged Beijing to do more to press Sudan to allow peacekeepers into the war-torn region.

“Recent overall trends over the Darfur issue have been in the positive direction,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news conference in Beijing.

No, not former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo; it was his granddaughter Yuko Tojo.

Mindy Kotler updates.

The 26 April edition of the Beijing Evening News had 208 pages and weighed 486 grams. It had a cover price of 0.5 yuan, but as scrap it could be sold for nearly 0.6 yuan. Some newsstand owners did the only sensible thing.