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During the ASEAN summit, Clinton reaffirms the U.S. commitment to resolving the maritime territorial disputes between the two states. China feels called into question, accusing Tokyo of "untruths" over the Diaoyu Islands. Icy relations between the two countries, ahead of today's meeting between the two prime ministers.

Criticism of the media and the internet that promotes a love that is just "selfishness and closure". He tells a boy: "Being big is not question of size, but it of being a friend to Jesus, who "gifts us His greatness ." The emerging educational needs of adults who are not masters but servants of the joy of young people’s joy. The pope "rejuvenated" by this encounter.

The 2010 report on public corruption, organized by Transparency International, shows the persistence of widespread corruption in Asia, with some of the most corrupt countries. China, India and Russia fall behind. Improvements for Hong Kong and Singapore.

An editorial article appears this morning in Xinhua, China’s official news agency. In it, the arguments made by the committee’s chairman to explain why the Chinese dissident was awarded the prize are deemed “fallacious” based on a “partial value system”.

Tensions date to September over the sovereignty Senkaku islands, uninhabited, but probably rich in gas and oil. Chinese retaliation risked jeopardizing peace in the Pacific region. But leaders of the two countries have resumed talks.

China wants to increase rail traffic and trade with Turkey and other countries in between. At home, it has already boosted its high-speed rail network to over 7,000 kilometres. New, Chinese-built light rail starts operations next month in Makkah.

Rare earth elements are essential for high tech industries. Until 2009, China met 97 per cent of world demand, but this year it has drastically cut its export to “protect” the resource. The European Union is looking into legal action, whilst the United States wants “clarifications” over the move.

Daughter of a Christian lawyer who disappeared six months ago in China, Grace Geng lives in the United States. Today she released an open letter addressed to the American president asking for his help to find out where her father is. In Chongqing, a woman disappears in the night after expressing solidarity to Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

After 91 years, the Hong Kong Bible Society releases a new revised translation of the sacred text. Christians from all confessional backgrounds as well as members of mainland China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs took part in the endeavour. Government censorship shapes updating archaic terms.

The wife of Liu Xiaobo, activist and co-author of pro-democracy Charter 08, calls on Chinese dissidents to go to Oslo to receive the prestigious prize on behalf of her husband who is purging an 11-year sentence. Liu’s brothers hope to meet the dissident in prison before the ceremony. Fifteen Nobel Prize winners call on Hu Jintao to free him.

The great dissident looks at the recent plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, which has not achieved any result, except for the succession. No solutions are offered to the country’s political and economic problems, which threaten both China and the world.

Among the new challenges, the formation of young people through new media and the evangelization of China. the Daughters of St. Paul in Korea arrived in the country in 1960, and now number 234, with 18 on mission. They manage 12 communities and 15 bookshops. Sister Maria Antonietta Bruscato, superior of the order speaks to AsiaNews about the fruits of mission in the Asian country.