Issue: June 01, 2012   (Archive)
Thursday, June 20, 2013   

Roundup in Tibet as torch toll mounts
Hundreds of people have been detained in Lhasa after two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan regional capital, a US-based broadcaster said, as a young mother became the latest Tibetan to martyr herself.



Island plan buys `irresponsible' label
China called Tokyo's nationalist governor "irresponsible" after he said a plan to buy islands at the center of a territorial row is akin to locking the doors to keep a burglar out.



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