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Every Saturday, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.
This week, the following hot news you should know:
Top 1 | Xi and Trump tackle DPRK, trade relations in 'successful' visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping praised US President Donald Trump’s "successful and historic visit" to Beijing on Thursday afternoon, as the two leaders addressed tensions on the Korean Peninsula and bilateral trade relations at a press conference in the Great Hall of the People.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump has discussed various ranges of topics, including Korean Peninsula denuclearization, trade relations, commercial deals, and China-US ties.
President Xi noted that while China and the US have different opinions on certain topics, common ground can be found with good communication, cooperation, and respect.
Xi emphasized China’s commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and said both sides would "strictly implement" UN Security Council sanctions, adding that solutions could be found "through peaceful communication and consultation."
Top 2 | China, US in $253.5 bln trade ‘miracle’ during Trump visit
US and Chinese firms have signed deals worth more than 250 billion US dollars on the sidelines of Donald Trump's state visit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping revealed the figure after he witnessed the signing of the deals alongside US President Trump.
"To keep opening up is our long term strategy. We will not narrow or close our doors. We will open them wider and wider," Xi told business executives at a bilateral business exchange on Thursday.
The facts show that China and the US have huge potential in economic and trade cooperation, Xi said.
The deals singed from Wednesday to Thursday cover a wide range of fields, including manufacturing, transport, energy, tech, investment, agriculture and etc.
Top 3 | Texas shooting: US Air Force 'failed' to flag gunman's criminal history
The US Air Force has said it is investigating its apparent failure to enter information about Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley's criminal history into the national database.
Ex-airman Kelley was court-martialled for domestic violence in 2012, and was barred from owning or buying guns.
But last year he was able to purchase a rifle he used in Sunday's attack on a small church outside San Antonio.
He killed 26 people and fled the scene. He was later found dead in his car.
Top 4 | Delhi urged to declare emergency after third day of heavy pollution
The Delhi government is being urged to declare a city-wide health emergency, as residents endured a third straight day of heavy pollution.
Air quality readings in India's capital have soared since Tuesday, with one monitor showing levels in the city were 969 -- the World Health Organization considers anything above 25 to be unsafe.
Those levels are based on the concentration of fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, per cubic meter. The microscopic particles, which are smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, are considered particularly harmful because they are small enough to lodge deep into the lungs and pass into other organs, causing serious health risks.
Top 5 | Saudi anti-corruption probe 'finds $100bn was embezzled'
Saudi Arabia's attorney general says at least $100bn (£76bn) has been misused through systemic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades.
Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb said 201 people were being held for questioning as part of a sweeping anti-corruption drive that began on Saturday night.
Among those reportedly detained are the billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal; Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, a son of the late king who was also removed from his post as National Guard chief on Saturday; and his brother Prince Turki bin Abdullah, a former governor of Riyadh province.
Top 6 | European arrest warrant issued for ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont
A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest warrant for Catalonia’s ousted president a day after she jailed eight members of the region’s separatist government pending possible charges over last week’s declaration of independence.
In the latest twist in Spain’s worst political crisis in four decades, a national court judge on Friday issued a European arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont in response to a request from state prosecutors.
Puigdemont flew to Brussels earlier this week with a handful of his deposed ministers after Spanish authorities removed him and his cabinet from office for pushing ahead with the declaration despite repeated warnings that it was illegal.
Top 7 | Trump requests extra $4bln to counter DPRK threat
US President Donald Trump has requested an additional four billion US dollars to support efforts to counter the threat from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as well as funding to increase troop levels in Afghanistan and conduct repairs on Navy ships in the Asia-Pacific.
The budget request, revealed in a letter from Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on Monday, calls for the extra funding "to support urgent missile defeat and defense enhancements to counter the threat" posed by the DPRK.
"This request supports additional efforts to detect, defeat and defend against any North Korean [DPRK] use of ballistic missiles against the United States, its deployed forces, allies, or partners."
Top 8 | S. Korea announces sanctions against Pyongyang
South Korea announced new unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang -- the first under President Moon Jae-In -- on Monday, a day before US President Donald Trump arrives in Seoul on an Asian tour dominated by the DPRK's nuclear programme.
A total of 18 DPRK bankers stationed in Russia and Libya with suspected links to the regime's weapons programmes have been blacklisted, a statement posted on the South's government website showed.
"Those individuals have worked overseas, representing DPRK banks and getting involved in supplying money needed to develop weapons of mass destruction," Seoul's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Top 9 | Russia bans entry of dozens of Canadians in response to sanctions
Moscow decides to ban entry of dozens of Canadian citizens to Russia in retaliation to Canada's new sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.
"We are forced to act in a mirror-like manner. Based on the principle of reciprocity, it was decided to ban entry to the Russian Federation of a number of Canadian individuals. The list is long, there are dozens of names in it," the ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a commentary posted on the ministry's website.
Russophobic individuals who intend to destroy bilateral relations between the two countries are the targets, Zakharova said.
The diplomat called on the Canadian side to quit playing "sanctions games" and take the path of constructive interaction.
Top 10 | Video shows DPRK embassy official with Kim Jong Nam murder suspects
An DPRK(the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) embassy official and a manager of Air Koryo, the national airline, met suspects wanted for the killing of Kim Jong Nam shortly after the murder, according to video recordings shown at the trial in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
Two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam, and four men who are still at large, have been charged in the murder of the half-brother of the country’s leader, using banned chemical weapon VX at Kuala Lumpur airport on Feb. 13.
Defense lawyers have said Siti Aisyah and Huong were duped into thinking they were playing a prank for a reality TV show.
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(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
