Text of report in English by South Korean news age

BEIJING President visits Tangshan President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Hu Jintao visited Tangshan, a city rebuilt on the ruins of a catastrophic earthquake 30 years ago in Hebei Province, North China on Friday and Saturday.

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Beijing, 30 December: Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said here Friday [30 December] that China will peacefully develop and adhere to an independent foreign policy of peace in the coming year.

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) Beijing, 19 September - Japanese chief negotiator Sasae Kenichiro to the ongoing six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue said here on Monday [19 September] morning that "today is the last day of the talks".

By Lindsay Beck, BEIJING (Reuters) - It has seen endless intrigue and secret meetings where scheming mandarins plotted palace coups.