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BEIJING -- Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday sought to downplay China s positioning of anti-aircraft missiles on a disputed South China Sea island, accusing the media of hyping the issue and saying more attention should be paid to what he called public goods and services provided by China s development of its maritime claims.Taiwan s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement it had grasped nike dunk high that Communist China had deployed an unspecified number of missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel group. The Philippines said the development increased regional tensions.Satellite imagery company ImageSat International published images from early February and others taken about two weeks later, showing a stretch of beach that was empty in the earlier image, but dotted with apparent missiles launching systems in the Feb. 14 photo.State Department spokesman Mark Toner said commercial satellite imagery appeared to indicate China has deployed a surface-to-air missile system. Another U.S. official gave a more direct confirmation of the deployment on Woody Island. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said it is unclear whether the deployment is intended for the lo hoka winterschuhe ng-term. China leaders fuming over U.S. flexing military muscle in South China Sea 01:35 adidas samba og Wvhd 62 dead in Ethiopia garbage dump collapse
A deadly pre-dawn fire devastated a Philippine orphanage on Thursday and killed at least 27 people, most of them children trapped on upper floors and babies abandoned in a nursery, officials said. Police said at least three children were still missing by Thursday evening, some 15 hours after the fire ravaged stanley termoska the sprawling Associacion de Damas de Pilipinas orphanage in central Manila. About 70 people were inside the Catholic-run Bahay Kalinga orphanage and children s home in the slum area in Manila s Paco district when the fire broke out about 2 a.m., officials said. It broke out the day before a local company was to host a Christmas party for the institution, locat stanley deutschland ed just one mile from the presidential palace. President Joseph Estrada visited the orphanage during the day as said he would personally lead a campaign to raise funds for its reconstruction. Orphanage workers said some of those killed could not get out of the blazing three-storey wooden building because its exit doors were locked. Several children trapped in a room were heard crying befor stanley canada e flames swallowed the 78-year-old structure, radio reports said. The executive director of the orphanage, Precy Ledaslia, said 27 people were killed in the blaze, one of the worst to hit the nation in recent years. Funeral parlor employees said five of the orphanage fire victims were adults. All the rest were babies and children, including one about three months old. Their bodies were
BEIJING -- Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday sought to downplay China s positioning of anti-aircraft missiles on a disputed South China Sea island, accusing the media of hyping the issue and saying more attention should be paid to what he called public goods and services provided by China s development of its maritime claims.Taiwan s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement it had grasped nike dunk high that Communist China had deployed an unspecified number of missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel group. The Philippines said the development increased regional tensions.Satellite imagery company ImageSat International published images from early February and others taken about two weeks later, showing a stretch of beach that was empty in the earlier image, but dotted with apparent missiles launching systems in the Feb. 14 photo.State Department spokesman Mark Toner said commercial satellite imagery appeared to indicate China has deployed a surface-to-air missile system. Another U.S. official gave a more direct confirmation of the deployment on Woody Island. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said it is unclear whether the deployment is intended for the lo hoka winterschuhe ng-term. China leaders fuming over U.S. flexing military muscle in South China Sea 01:35 adidas samba og Wvhd 62 dead in Ethiopia garbage dump collapse
A deadly pre-dawn fire devastated a Philippine orphanage on Thursday and killed at least 27 people, most of them children trapped on upper floors and babies abandoned in a nursery, officials said. Police said at least three children were still missing by Thursday evening, some 15 hours after the fire ravaged stanley termoska the sprawling Associacion de Damas de Pilipinas orphanage in central Manila. About 70 people were inside the Catholic-run Bahay Kalinga orphanage and children s home in the slum area in Manila s Paco district when the fire broke out about 2 a.m., officials said. It broke out the day before a local company was to host a Christmas party for the institution, locat stanley deutschland ed just one mile from the presidential palace. President Joseph Estrada visited the orphanage during the day as said he would personally lead a campaign to raise funds for its reconstruction. Orphanage workers said some of those killed could not get out of the blazing three-storey wooden building because its exit doors were locked. Several children trapped in a room were heard crying befor stanley canada e flames swallowed the 78-year-old structure, radio reports said. The executive director of the orphanage, Precy Ledaslia, said 27 people were killed in the blaze, one of the worst to hit the nation in recent years. Funeral parlor employees said five of the orphanage fire victims were adults. All the rest were babies and children, including one about three months old. Their bodies were
