Beijing, Apr. 21 : China has disavowed any kind of cooperation with the Democratic People''s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in nuclear energy development, and urged a peaceful solution to the DPRK nuclear disputes.

"China has never had any cooperation with the DPRK in nuclear energy development," the Xinhua news agency quoted Wang Yiren, the head of the China''s Atomic Energy Authority, as telling reporters at a nuclear energy conference in Beijing on Monday.

Beijing - The UN's international nuclear watchdog warned Monday of ageing nuclear facilities and a lack of oversight of nuclear installations.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said at the opening of a two-day conference on nuclear energy in Beijing that security at nuclear reactors was much better today than 10 years ago "but we still have vulnerabilities in safety as well as in security, even in countries with significant nuclear programmes."

Beijing - Members of a German parliamentary delegation allowed to visit Tibet said Monday that they were constantly escorted by Chinese minders during their trip and said it was deeply one-sided.

Holgar Haibach, the head of the four-member delegation from the human rights committee of the German Bundestag, said many of the group's questions were not answered and their minders in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, wanted to give the Germans the impression that all was normal in Tibet.

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Beijing, Apr. 18 : Lewis Hamilton has expressed surprise over the exit of Ron Davis from Formula One, but was not disappointed.

"I wasn't disappointed," said Hamilton. "I was surprised as I hadn't heard about it. I was just as surprised as the rest of my team. Of course, Ron has been a huge force in supporting my life and he still plays a key role in that," the Daily Express quoted hamilton as saying after he had set the fastest time during first practice in China.

Beijing, Apr. 18 : A Chinese police officer has publicly apologized for arresting a blogger, who wrote against a local party for illegally acquisitioning farmland.

"I would like to apologize to Wang and his family as I am partly responsible for the incident. There was not enough evidence to arrest Wang Shuai on defamation charges," the China daily quoted Qin Yuhai, Director of Henan Provincial Public Security Bureau, as saying.