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Despite its extravagance, Chinese aid not always...
This international convention center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, was built with Chinese aid. The photo was taken March 25. (Atsushi Okudera)
May 12, 2013
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania--There's a towering presence in the foreign aid landscape in Africa, once the domain of Western donor nations and Japan: It is China.
POINT OF VIEW: China would never drive N. Korea to...
February 15, 2013
It is highly undesirable for China for North Korea to possess nuclear weapons and enhance its nuclear capability.
U.N. to send food aid to flood-hit North Korea
Residents wait on the roof of flooded buildings in Anju city, South Phyongan province, North Korea on July 30. The photo was distributed by the Korean Central News Agency. (Provided by Korea News Service in Tokyo)
August 05, 2012
SEOUL--The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has said it will send a first batch of emergency food aid to impoverished North Korea, where a series of deluges and a typhoon have...
UPDATE: Donors offer $16 billion Afghan aid at...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and other participants in the Tokyo conference on Afghan aid pose for a group photo on July 8. (The Asahi Shimbun)
July 08, 2012
Major donors pledged on July 8 to give Afghanistan $16 billion (1.28 trillion yen) in development aid over the next four years as they seek to prevent it from sliding back into ...
Tokyo conference crucial to future Afghan aid
In this Thursday, July 5, 2012 photo, an Afghan student writes a question during their mid-year school examinations at the Mirbachakot high school on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan will seek at least $4 billion from international donors this weekend at a crucial aid conference aimed at propping up the country after most foreign combat troops leave at the end of 2014.(AP Photo)
July 06, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan will seek at least $4 billion from international donors this weekend at a crucial aid conference aimed at propping up the country after most...
EDITORIAL: Use aid to Myanmar as push toward...
May 01, 2012
Japan has pledged to provide 600 billion yen ($7.5 billion) of official development assistance (ODA) in the three years starting fiscal 2013 to the five countries of the Mekong ...
EDITORIAL: Ensure democracy before supplying aid to ...
April 04, 2012
The main opposition National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, declared a landslide victory in parliamentary by-elections held over the weekend in Myanmar (Burma). ...
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