ISLAMABAD - A PROMINENT anti-Taleban cleric was among at least six people killed in two simultaneous suicide bombings at Pakistani mosques on Friday in a day of bloodshed that claimed nearly 80 lives.
BEIJING - PAKISTAN and China are cooperating to stamp out violent groups that span their border, the Pakistani interior minister said on Friday, claiming that miltants in the mountainous frontier have formed a 'syndicate'.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik was speaking in Beijing, where he has been discussing closer cooperation with senior Chinese officials, who say their country's north-west Xinjiang region is menaced by Uighur separatists who have links in central Asia and the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
TAIPEI - ONE hundred swimmers from Taiwan and China will take part in a swim between the mainland and a Taiwan-held island, in a further sign of warming ties between the two sides, organisers said on Friday.
Fifty swimmers from each side will swim from the southern Chinese city of Xiamen to Kinmen island on August 15, said Fu Yang-tu, a spokesman for the island's county government.
BEIJING - CHINA will limit the number of messages that a mobile number can send per day to battle rampant spam messages clogging cell phones, state media said on Friday.
