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Nikolic arrives in China, set to attend military parade

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has arrived in China for a state visit.

He will attend a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory over fascism in Beijing on September 3, the president's office said on Sunday.

You know how it is with buses? You wait ages for one, far longer than seems reasonable - and then three arrive all at once. Financial crises are a bit like that too.
   

A few weeks ago, at the height of the panic in the Chinese stock markets, a sour joke was doing the rounds: "Last month, the dog was eating what I eat. Last week, I was eating what the dog eats. This week, I think I'll eat the dog." A lot of people have lost a lot of money.

China has arrested a member of its mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority who planned a bomb attack after returning from a training camp in Syria, state media said July 20.

Last Saturday, a group of Korean tourists enjoying the historic beauty of Istanbul had unexpected trouble. Hundreds of angry protestors that were condemning China?s oppression of Muslim Uighurs, a Turkic people from the Xinjiang region, began harassing the tourists. Luckily the police intervened and no one got hurt, but the tourists were scared.

China has warned its citizens traveling in Turkey to be careful of anti-Beijing protests, in the wake of several attacks on tourists and restaurants mistaken for being Chinese in Istanbul.

The notice, posted on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on July 5, said there have recently been "multiple" demonstrations in Turkey targeting the Chinese government. 

China warned its citizens travelling in Turkey to be careful of anti-Beijing protests, warning them that some Chinese tourists have recently been "attacked and disturbed". 

The notice, posted on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on July 5, said that there have recently been "multiple" demonstrations in Turkey targeting the Chinese government. 

Chinese authorities have begun showing government officials and their families around prisons as a “warning” against corruption, according to China Daily newspaper.

70 members of the Communist Party and their wives or husbands visited “former prison officers and stayed in a cell for one day as an educational warning”, according to the newspaper.

Greece proposed a three-year cooperation plan to Beijing involving ports, ship building and repair, credit, supply chain and culture during Greek Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis?s recent visit to China, according to the Chinese government.

Amnesty International awarded its top honor Tuesday to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who has spent years shining light on his country's restrictive political atmosphere, and to U.S. folk singer Joan Baez for her civil rights activism.
     
Both were named recipients of Amnesty's Ambassador of Conscience Award, which recognizes lifetime human rights leadership.