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China's deadline passes for Tibet surrender

BEIJING - China's deadline passed early Tuesday for protesters to hand themselves in to authorities in Tibet, which remained cut off from the outside world after a lockdown by Chinese security forces.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/18/2008 1:51 PM


Malaysian PM drops trade minister in new slimline cabinet

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's veteran trade minister Rafidah Aziz was dropped Tuesday from a slimline post-election cabinet that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has cut from 90 to 68 positions.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/18/2008 12:47 PM


China's Wen accuses Dalai Lama of organizing riots

BEIJING - Premier Wen Jiabao defended China's crackdown in Tibet on Tuesday, accusing the Himalayan region's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, of organizing the rioting which has left dozens dead.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/18/2008 11:17 AM


NATO holds line in tense north Kosovo after riots

MITROVICA, Kosovo - NATO troops secured a hostile strip of north Kosovo on Tuesday after Serb riots forced the pullout of U.N. personnel in the most serious challenge to the state since it split from Serbia last month.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/18/2008 9:11 AM


White House contenders war over Iraq

WASHINGTON - White House hopeful Hillary Clinton insisted Monday that her plans to pull combat troops out of Iraq would represent a triumph for US diplomacy and not defeat at the hands of Al-Qaeda.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/18/2008 9:09 AM


Pro-Tibet vigil held in Beijing

BEIJING - Ethnic Tibetan students staged a candle-lit vigil in Beijing on Monday, saying it was to pray for the dead, after authorities warned anti-Chinese rioters in the Tibetan capital to surrender.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/18/2008 9:07 AM


China says will 'unwaveringly' protect territory

BEIJING - China on Monday denounced attacks on its embassies by pro-Tibetan activists hours before a deadline for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in and said it would do all in its power to protect its territorial integrity.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/18/2008 12:23 AM


China says using restraint to quell Tibet unrest

BEIJING - China said on Monday it had shown great restraint in the face of violent protests by Tibetans, which it said were orchestrated by followers of the Dalai Lama seeking to wreck the Beijing Olympics in August.

abs-cbnnews.com 03/17/2008 8:23 PM


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