Taipei, Nov 20 (DPA) A majority of Taiwan residents have more trust in US President Barack Obama than in their own president or Chinese President Hu Jintao, an opinion poll showed Friday.
The telephone survey of 1,004 adults by the Global View monthly magazine found that only 38.6 percent trust President Ma Ying-jeou, who lags [...]
Tokyo/Washington, Nov 13 (DPA) US President Barack Obama landed Friday afternoon in Tokyo, the first stop on his four-nation Asian tour.
Obama is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama later Friday. Climate change issues, the war in Afghanistan and the global downturn are expected to feature prominently in the talks.
Hatoyama, who heads the Democratic Party [...]
Lucknow, Nov 10 (IANS) While jolting Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the results Tuesday of bypolls to one Lok Sabha and 11 state assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh have come as a shot in the arm for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Chief Minister Mayawati.
The Congress may have received a boost by registering [...]
Itanagar, Oct 25 (IANS) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, who was Sunday sworn in to the office for a second straight tenure, termed China’s claims to Arunachal Pradesh as its territory as ’simply absurd’.
‘I have been telling repeatedly that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and that Chinese claims are simply absurd.
‘We [...]
Tokyo, Sep 16 (DPA) One-time opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama was elected Japan’s prime minister Wednesday by parliament, ushering in a sea change in Japanese politics.
Both chambers of the Diet selected the 62-year-old self-proclaimed reformer after his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a landslide victory in Aug 30 parliamentary elections, trouncing the Liberal Democratic Party [...]
Tokyo, Sep 16 (DPA) Yukio Hatoyama, elected Japan’s new prime minister Wednesday, faces the uphill task of making good on his campaign pledges of reform Japan and secure the world’s second largest economy’s resurgence from recession.
Hatoyama, 62, a political blueblood whose Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) won a landslide victory in the Aug 30 elections [...]
Tokyo, Sep 16 (DPA) One-time opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama was elected Japan’s prime minister Wednesday by parliament, ushering in a sea change in Japanese politics.
Both chambers of the Diet selected the 62-year-old self-proclaimed reformer after his Democratic Party of Japan won a landslide victory in Aug 30 parliamentary elections, trouncing the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), [...]
New Delhi, Sep.3 (ANI): A visibly distraught and at times emotional Congress president Sonia Gandhi told media persons outside the party headquarters on Thursday that she and other members of the Congress were deeply saddened by [...]
