BANGKOK - THAILAND'S new prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva unveiled his cabinet on Saturday aimed at building reconciliation and reviving the economy, but the ministerial line-up has already stoked tensions.

The cabinet list was announced after King Bhumibol Adulyadej signed a royal command approving the ministers, five days after Abhisit won a parliamentary vote to bring a coalition led by the Democrat Party into power.

MUMBAI - FINAL preparations were taking place in Mumbai on Saturday to prepare the two luxury hotels stormed by Islamist militants for reopening, amid tight security and pledges to return to business as usual.

The modern Tower wing of the Taj Mahal hotel and all of the nearby Trident hotel are due to relaunch on Sunday, less than a month after the devastating attacks that left 172 people, including nine of the gunmen, dead.

TAIPEI - TAIWAN will soon allow senior Cabinet officials to visit China, and is considering lifting a ban on military personnel traveling to the mainland, a government official said on Saturday.

The statement by Mainland Affairs Council spokesman Liu Te-shun, a Cabinet-level agency in charge of implementing Taiwan's China policy, is the latest step in rapidly warming ties between Taiwan and rival China.

SHANGHAI- CHINA, hit by a slowdown in manufacturing from the global downturn, will pursue foreign investors who flee the country to escape failed business investments and debt, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

China will ask foreign governments to help investigate and extradite the fugitives, especially in cases involving large sums of money, the official news agency said.