An advisory body to China's legislative advisory body has opened its annual meeting in Beijing to draw attention to the country's social ills. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference brings together Chinese political experts, scholars, and celebrities to raise issues and make suggestions to Chinese legislators.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is in China for talks expected to focus on how to hold North Korea to a nuclear disarmament deal reached in February.

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Six-country talks aimed at reaching a deal in which North Korea would quit its nuclear weapons program have entered their fifth day in China's capital, Beijing.

The United States and its regional partners are trying to convince North Korea to uphold a two-year-old promise to dismantle its nuclear weapons programs. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Beijing talks on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions have formally opened.

Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program have resumed in Beijing, with negotiators discussing how to implement a 2005 statement offering North Korea economic and security incentives in return for Pyongyang abandoning its nuclear weapons ambitions.

North Korea must get out of the nuclear business, the chief U.S. negotiator said Monday, adding he believed the North "was prepared to negotiate" at the coming arms talks in Beijing.

China's Foreign Ministry says six-country talks on North Korea's nuclear program will resume on February 8 in Beijing.

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Envoys from the United States and North Korea meet in China next week to discuss U.S. financial sanctions on Pyongyang's foreign assets. The U.S. Treasury Department says Friday its top negotiator, Daniel Glaser, will lead a delegation to Beijing Tuesday.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry official has defended Beijing's Africa policy and weapons sales to Sudan ahead of the Chinese president's eight-country visit to Africa. China has been wooing African nations with aid and business deals, but critics say in its quest for resources Beijing is ignoring human rights abuses. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing.

China will host the Olympic Games in 2008 and many experts say Beijing is determined to take the largest number of medals at the games. And to do so, it is actively recruiting top-level foreign coaches. RFE/RL correspondent Valentinas Mite spoke with China's Lithuanian basketball coach, Jonas Kazlauskas.