links for 2007-04-25

Onishi: Facing calls to compensate the aging victims of its wartime sexual slavery, Japan set up the Asian Women’s Fund in 1995. It was a significant concession from Japan, which has always asserted that postwar treaties absolved it of all individual clai

China has delayed indefinitely its national “action plan” on climate change, which was due to be released on Monday after exhaustive consultations among ministries in Beijing and provincial and local governments.

A computer simulation projected that China could land forces on rival Taiwan, but they would be repulsed after two weeks of fierce fighting and harsh losses to both sides, Taiwan’s military said Tuesday.

The Chinese government said Tuesday that it had approved rules to increase official transparency but added that state secrets had to be safeguarded and social stability preserved.

Nine Chinese oil workers have been killed in Ethiopia’s remote Ogaden region, Chinese state media reports.