China strongly opposes U.S. State Department's statement on South China Sea
China has expressed its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition on the press statement released by the U.S.Department of State on the South China Sea.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang says the statement "completely ignored the facts, deliberately confounded right and wrong, and sent a seriously wrong signal, which is not conducive to the efforts safeguarding the peace and stability of the South China Sea and the Asia Pacific region.
He says China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and their adjacent waters, and has ample historical basis for this. Setting up Sansha city is the Chinese government's necessary adjustment of the current administrative agencies, which is completely within China's sovereignty.
Qin Gang says the selective blindness and expression of concerns of the U.S. side run against the attitude of 'no position' and 'not to intervene' that they have claimed to hold on the South China Sea issue, and is not conducive to the unity, cooperation, peace and stability in the region.
20 killed in al-Qaida suicide attack in south Yemen
At least 20 people were killed late Saturday when an al-Qaida suicide bomber targeted a gathering of pro-government tribesmen in Yemen's southern province of Abyan.
A police official says an al-Qaida bomber detonated his concealed explosive belt among the crowd at a funeral in Jaar town in Abyan on Saturday night, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens of others.
He says Abdulatif al-Saeed, the leader of the tribal fighters who supported the government troops in the fighting against al-Qaida over the past months, was killed in the bombing attack.
The deadly attack took place in less than one hour after a Yemeni-U.S. coordinated airstrike killed four al-Qaida militants in the southeastern province of Hadramout.
4 killed, 10 injured in car bomb blast in SW Pakistan
At least four people have been killed and 10 others injured, including women and children in a bomb blast in a residential area of Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta.
A local TV reports the incident happened Sunday when an explosive-laden car, parked in a residential colony was set off by a remote-controlled device in Faizabad area of Quetta, the provincial capital of the country's southwest province of Balochistan.
One house was razed to ground following the blast and two others were seriously damaged.
Some people are feared to be buried under the rubbles, and rescuers are combing through debris to rescue the stranded people.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast yet.
Fighting continues in Syria's Damascus, Aleppo
Clashes continued Saturday in Syria's capital Damascus between armed insurgents and government troops in tandem with other military showdown in northern Aleppo province.
Witnesses say clashes have taken place in several neighborhoods of Damascus, as media reports claimed that many of the rebel fighters were killed.
Chinese police detain fake-drug manufacturers, sellers
Chinese police have detained more than 1,900 people suspected of making or selling fake drugs in a nationwide bust.
Also, more than 1billion yuan (over 180 million U.S. dollars) worth of fake medicine and related trademark logos, packages and instruction manuals have been seized, according to a statement from the Ministry of Public Security.
The ministry says on the basis of previous investigations, more than 18,000 police were mobilized on July 25 to strike against gangs involved, in order to crack down on the industrial chains and circulation channels of fake medicines.
The seized fake drugs were illegally advertised for the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, skin diseases and other complicated illnesses or cancer, according to the statement.
Rainstorms to hit south, east China as Typhoon Haikui approaches
Heavy rains will hit many areas in south and east China from Sunday to Tuesday, as Typhoon Haikui is moving northwestward from Okinawa, Japan, to affect China's coastal region.
The National Meteorological Center says downpours will sweep parts of Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and Hainan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as well as southern parts of some central and northern provinces in the next three days.
Meanwhile, rainstorms are expected to lash east China's coastal regions including Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanghai on Monday and Tuesday.
Railways operating again in flood-hit Liaoning
Although some traffic-flow problems still exist in Liaoning after Typhoon Damrey recently tore through the province in northeast China, the major railways are operating again on Sunday.
Suspended rail services along three major lines running through Liaoning had been resumed by noon Sunday as a result of more than 30 hours' continuous repair work.
The Shenyang Railway Bureau says operation of all the bullet trains between Beijing and Shenyang, capital of Liaoning, which had been disrupted as of Saturday morning, has resumed so far, while other passenger trains in the province are expected to resume services gradually.
The Liaoning Provincial Meteorological Bureau says it will take some time to get disrupted traffic back in order.
Authorities launch relief operation in flood-hit NE China
China has launched relief operation in northeastern province of Liaoning and northern province of Hebei where millions of people were affected by floods caused by Typhoon Damrey.
The National Commission for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Civil Affairs sent two teams to the flood-hit regions to direct relief work, according to a ministry statement on Sunday.