DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “10 families of east China train crash victims accept compensation” plus 5 more

DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “10 families of east China train crash victims accept compensation” plus 5 more

10 families of east China train crash victims accept compensation

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:27 PM PDT

WENZHOU, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Ten families of the victims of a deadly high-speed train crash in east China's Zhejiang Province have agreed to take an increased compensatory payment of 915,000 yuan (about 143,000 U.S.dollars) by Saturday, according to local authorities.

Urgent: 11 killed in firing incident in Quetta, SW Pakistan

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:26 PM PDT

Quetta, Pakistan, July 30 (Xinhua) -- At least eleven people including a woman were killed and several others were injured Saturday morning when unknown gunmen riding motorcycles fired at a passenger pick-up carrying Shite muslims near a bus stop on the Spini road in Quetta, a capital city of Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan, reported local Urdu TV channel Samaa. Enditem

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sendavidkh: China backs extension of UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur
2011-07-30 11:13:11

UNITED NATIONS, July 29 (Xinhua) -- China supports the extension of the African Union/UN Hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID) for another year, a Chinese diplomat said Friday.

"We support the renewal of UNAMID to continue to implement the Security Council mandate," China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Wang Min told the Security Council.

The 15-member UN body unanimously adopted a resolution to renew the peacekeeping force till July 31, 2012.

China has consistently been supportive of the peace process in Darfur, Wang said after the vote.

"We hope for an early attainment of peace, prosperity and development in Darfur," he said.

Wang said China maintains that the Darfur issue should be addressed through the dual-track strategy with equal emphasis on peacekeeping deployment and political process.

Calling the African Union (AU) "an important partner" of the United Nations on the Sudan issue, Wang said the AU's position on the Darfur political process "deserves great attention."

China supports UNAMID in its efforts to play an important role in backing the political process in Darfur, he added.

Nearly 400,000 people in northeast Japan advised to evacuate over rain

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:26 PM PDT

TOKYO, July 30 (Xinhua) -- About 400,000 residents have been advised to evacuate in Japan's northeast Niigata and Fukushima prefectures due to torrential rain, local media reported Saturday.

One man has been killed and five others are missing in the region, Kyodo News reported.

The Igarashi River in Niigata's Sanjo flooded, leading local authorities to evacuate 10,000 residents nearby. On top of that, 11 cities and two towns in the prefecture told a total of 380,000 people to evacuate, Kyodo said.

Several spots of the two prefectures have seen rainfall exceeding 500 millimeters since Wednesday, causing floods and landslides. Japan Meteorological Agency warned of more heavy rainfall later Saturday.

2nd LD Writethru: 13 killed in firing incident in Quetta, SW Pakistan

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:25 PM PDT

Quetta, Pakistan, July 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 people were killed and five others were injured in a sectarian-motivated attack in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Saturday morning, said hospital sources.

According to Xinhua sources and local media reports, the attack took place at about 08:00 a.m. local time when two unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fired indiscriminately at a passenger pick-up carrying people from Hazara Shia community on their way for work near a bus stop on the Spini road in a densely populated area of the city.

The gunmen escaped after the firing. Police have arrived at the area shortly after the firing was reported and the area has been cordoned off for search operation. All the injured people have been shifted to the Bolan Medical Complex in the city.

No group has taken credit for the attack yet.

Saturday morning's incident is the second of its kind in the city over the last 12 hours or so. Late on Friday night, seven Shia devotees were reportedly shot dead in Quetta while they were heading to Iran to visit religious places.

The banned extremist group "Lashkar-e-Jhangvi" had claimed responsibility for the Friday's attack on the Shia devotees.

A spokesman of the group Ali Sher Haidri said that it was the revenge of the murder of a Sunni scholar Maulvi Karim who was killed in Quetta in firing on Thursday.

Quetta, a capital city of the insurgency-hit Balochistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan to its west, has seen a series of bomb blasts, sectarian and target killings in recent weeks.

Also on Friday, two people including a nephew of Balochistan's Chief Minister were killed and nearly 30 others were injured in a bomb attack which occurred outside a football stadium in Mastung, a district located some 60 km south of Quetta.

Nearly 190,000 evacuated as tropical storm Nock-Ten hits south China

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:24 PM PDT

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- A total of 189,033 people had been evacuated to safe areas in the southern island province of Hainan as of early Saturday morning after tropical storm Nock-Ten landed on the island late Friday afternoon, China's flood control authorities said Saturday.

The storm brought strong winds and heavy rains, leaving one person injured and 148 units of housing damaged along coastal villages in Hainan's Guangcun Town, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said.

But the headquarters received no damage reports from nearby Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which also experienced heavy rainfall.

On early Saturday morning, the storm entered the sea in the east of Beibu Bay after passing Hainan's Changjiang County and is expected to head for coastal areas north of Vietnam, it said.

Nock-Ten, the eighth storm and the most powerful one to hit China so far this year, was recorded as packing winds of up to 28 meters per second when it landed at Longlou Town in the city of Wenchang at 5:40 p.m. Friday. At least 31 people in the Philippines died as a result of the storm.

Border disputes threaten to ASEAN community formation by 2015: Cambodian DPM

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:24 PM PDT

PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Bilateral disputes, especially border rows, have been posing a severe threat to the establishment of the ASEAN community in the next four years, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon, who is also the minister of economy and finance, said on Saturday.

"Bilateral disputes among a number of ASEAN member countries, such as border disputes, have become the foremost critical challenges for ASEAN in their pursuit towards the establishment of the ASEAN community in 2015,"he told the 7th Asian Economic Forum under the theme: "The Asian Century in the Making: The Role of the ASEAN".

"Therefore, there is a need for ASEAN to put in place a practical mechanism for an effective dispute settlement in the region, thus ensuring regional peace, security and sustainability, especially among member countries," said the Minister.

The remark referred to the simmering border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand over the area next to the 11th century Preah Vihear temple since 2008, which has claimed dozens of lives of the two countries' soldiers and civilians.

"To address this issue, ASEAN still needs to complete the full legal framework in line with its charter including the institutionalization of a dispute settlement mechanism, improved operational efficiency of ASEAN bodies and modalities in order to transform ASEAN into a new stage of community building process and a rule-based institutional organization," he said.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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