India downplays Chinese intrusions, says border peacefulSeptember 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Downplaying recent Chinese incursions into the Indian territory of Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Monday said India has one of the most peaceful boundaries with China and added that the issue was being sorted out.
Philips starts making sex toysSeptember 3rd, 2009 BERLIN - Philips, the consumer electronics company which for decades has been a byword for Dutch solidity, announced in Berlin Thursday that it had begun manufacturing sex toys. Three electrical vibrators are to be marketed under a new product segment to be known as "relationship care".
India strengthens economic ties with China but still wary on security frontAugust 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju has said that while India is strengthening its economic ties with China, it will not downplay any sort of possible threat perception. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, Raju said, "There has not been any violation or there have not been any skirmishes.
Importer to pay $31,500 penalty for violating safety standard on toys with small partsAugust 18th, 2009 Toy importer penalized for choking hazardWASHINGTON — TGH International Trading Inc. has agreed to pay a $31,500 civil penalty after it imported and sold toys with small parts in violation of federal child safety standards, government officials said Monday.
20 Sears toys will offer toys on Saturday from Hasbro, Mattel and other toy makersAugust 12th, 2009 Sears to offer toys in 20 storesHOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Sears Holdings Corp., the retail chain lead by chairman and hedge fund financier Eddie Lampert, said Wednesday it will begin to offer toys in 20 of its Sears stores starting Saturday.
Tharoor says Sino-India relations go beyond the boundary issueAugust 11th, 2009 KOCHI - Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday that India's "healthy" relationship with China goes beyond the boundary issue. "Relationship should not be seen only in the context of the problems, it should also be seen in the context of the opportunity," Tharoor said, replying to a question on the just-concluded India-China border talks last week.
Experts say substantive progress in Sino-Indian border talks 'dim'August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The hopes for substantive progress in China-India border talks were "dim" as the two nations began their 13th round of boundary negotiations on Friday, experts in international studies have said. Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo (r), special representative of China in Sino-Indian Boundary Talks, and his Indian counterpart, National Security Advisor M.K.
Toys R Us subsidiary closes on offering of $950 million senior unsecured notes due 2017July 10th, 2009 Toys R Us subsidiary completes note offeringWAYNE, N.J. — Toys R Us Inc.
India bans import of toys lacking safety standardsJune 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has announced restrictions till January 2010 on the import of all toys that fail to meet international safety standards. Hitherto, the ban only related to Chinese toys.
India, China should join hands against protectionism: EnvoyMarch 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of a likely meeting between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in London next week, China Wednesday said the two countries should join hands to tackle the global financial crisis to guard against protectionism of developed countries. 'The two countries can exchange experience and join efforts to tackle international financial crisis to guard against the protectionism of developed countries,' China's ambassador to India Zhang Yan told reporters here.
India, China to continue boundary talksMarch 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and China are exploring dates to hold the next round of talks to resolve their decades-old boundary dispute, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here Thursday while calling for more economic interaction between the two sides. 'We are looking at new dates for boundary talks.
India says wants to solve boundary dispute with ChinaMarch 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon has said India and China are attempting to find a solution to the vexed boundary dispute
"While we attempt to resolve our differences such as those on the boundary, we will not allow those differences to prevent engagement in other fields. Neither side has attempted to change the status quo on the border while we seek a boundary settlement," Menon said at a book release function here last evening.
India may soon get Chinese nod for basmati exportsMarch 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India may soon be allowed to export basmati rice to China, Commerce Secretary G.K. Pillai said here Thursday.
India relaxes ban on import of Chinese toysMarch 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday relaxed the general ban on the import of Chinese toys imposed over a month ago if such shipments come with certificates from independent agencies saying they meet the prescribed global health and quality standards. A notification by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said the ban on such imports from China will continue for the designated period of six months since Jan 23, but not if they have certificates from globally accredited testing agencies.
India relaxes ban on Chinese toy importsMarch 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has relaxed the ban imposed on import of Chinese toys, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said a notification issued Monday. The DGFT notification said that imports will be allowed only if the importer can produce a certificate stating that the toys conform to certain internationally-accepted quality standards.
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