Chinese security forces are deployed in front of a temple Wednesday--New Year's Day in Tibet--on a street that leads to a city center in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province.

OSAKA--Prosecutors arrested the president of an advertising firm in Nishi Ward, Osaka, and a former executive of the firm Thursday on suspicion they abused a discount postal service for organizations for the disabled and evaded about 650 million yen in postal fees--the difference between the regular and discount fees.  (Feb.27) [More...]

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