June 15, 2009 Monday
Updated

BEIJING - HUNDREDS of furniture makers and businessmen smashed police cars and blocked a highway in eastern China on Monday, protesting the implementation of proposed tax measures, officials and state press said.

The protesters gathered outside a furniture exhibition centre in Nankang city, Jiangxi province, to demonstrate against the measures when they began blocking traffic on a highway outside the centre, the city government said.

 
Mumbai carnage recalled

MUMBAI- A NEWSPAPER photographer told a court on Monday how he came face to face with two of the Mumbai attacks gunmen as they brought carnage to the city's main railway station.

India, Pakistan likely to talk

NEW DELHI - INDIA'S prime minister and Pakistan's president are 'likely' to hold face-to-face talks on Tuesday on the sidelines of a regional summit in Russia, an Indian foreign ministry official told AFP.

Poll support for Aso below 20%

TOKYO - JAPAN'S embattled Prime Minister Taro Aso has suffered a plunge in voter support, two polls showed on Monday, after a weekend defeat in a closely-watched mayoral race and ahead of general elections.

Mr Aso, reeling from a cabinet aide's resignation Friday and now his party's third mayoral election loss since April, has to call a national vote by September, with polls suggesting his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is heading for defeat.

   
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