BEIJING - CHINA said on Tuesday it would not send any troops to Afghanistan - rejecting recent speculation that Beijing might support the international coalition there.
BEIJING - THE death toll from a subway tunnel collapse in eastern China rose to eight on Tuesday as searchers battled through a sea of mud in an effort to locate 13 other missing people, state press said.
Rescuers found one more body on Tuesday, three days after an accident at a construction site for a subway in Hangzhou city trapped 21 labourers, the China News Service said.
BEIJING - CHINA on Tuesday called allegations that it bought US military space technology from a Chinese-born physicist a complete fabrication made with ulterior motives.
'This so-called report about China stealing outer space technology from the United States is a sheer fabrication made out of ulterior motives that is doomed to failure,' foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told journalists.
TAIPEI (Taiwan) - FORMER Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian resumed a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest his arrest in a corruption case, after accepting glucose and saline injections to stabilise his deteriorating condition, a doctor said.
Also Tuesday, a group of Chen supporters announced a mass protest against his jailing on corruption charges.
