facilitated the release and safe return of the workers. In the attack on the Chinese oil company's premises in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia on April 24, seven Chinese workers were kidnapped by a group of gunmen of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, who killed nine Chinese workers and 65 Ethiopian employees of the Chinese company during the attack.
Apr.26 - Hu Jintao, general-secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China and Lien Chan, honorary chairman of Taiwan's leading opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party are likely to meet this weekend, a mainland official said Wednesday.Yang Yi, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said the pair might meet during the third Cross-Straits Economic, Trade and Cultural Forum being held in Beijing this Saturday and Sunday.Arrangements for the meeting are being made, he told a regular press conference.If realized, this would be the pair's third meeting since April 2005, when Lien, then KMT chairman longchamp sale, made a historic visit to the mainland and met Hu in Beijing longchamp outlet. It was the first top-level talks between the CPC and KMT in 60 years.The two met again in 2006, during the second cross-Straits economic, trade and cultural forum held in Beijing.Yang said that about 500 representatives from both sides would take part in the forum this year, with more than 300 of them coming from Taiwan.Besides party members, businessmen engaged in cross-Straits travel MBT shoes, education and tourism from both sides will also be present, Yang said.He said representatives from the two sides will exchange views on topics of common concern, including direct flights, education and tourism.Yang also slammed the attempt by Taiwan authorities to seek membership of the World Health Organization (WHO), saying there already exists a WHO mechanism to protect international health concerns on the island.Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian sent a letter to the WHO director-general Margaret Chan on April 11 requesting WHO membership for Taiwan.Yang said Taiwan authoritie Related articles:

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