Sanya (China), Apr. 18 : Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hopes that Iran will resume talks with world powers soon to resolve the standoff over the nuclear issue.

During his meeting with Iran''s Vice-President Parviz Davoudi, Wen said the Muslim country should take up the nuclear issue to the 2009 Boao Forum for Asia.

The meeting came two days after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged for warmer ties with Washington and announced that Teheran will offer a new package for negotiations, the China Daily reports.

Beijing  - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China is willing to mediate in talks over Iran's nuclear development, state media reported Saturday.

Wen said in a meeting with Parviz Davoodi, first vice president of Iran, that China respects Iran's development of a nuclear programme for non-aggressive purposes, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Beijing  - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China is ready to offer help to ensure Pakistan's stability and development and also welcomed the international community's constructive role there, the official news agency Xinhua reported Saturday.

Wen made the comments late Friday at a meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of the Bo'ao Forum for Asia, a regional economic meeting on the southern Chinese island of Hainan.

Beijing  - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Friday to discuss trade, economic cooperation and a territorial dispute in the South China Sea, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.

There was dialogue but no sign of a resolution on the three archipelagos that both countries claim ownership to there.

Beijing - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the economy showed better than expected improvement in the first quarter, according to state media on Sunday. Speaking to reporters in Thailand, the premier said that while down on last year's figures, imports and exports were growing on a month-on-month basis, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Domestic demand and investment in fixed assets also rose, Wen said, indicating that some sectors and enterprises in China were starting to show gradual recovery.

London  - The trial of a German academic accused of hurling a shoe at Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at Cambridge University in Britain has been brought forward to avoid it clashing with events marking the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

German researcher Martin Jahnke, 27, was due to go on trial on June 2, 3 and 4 on charges of having "harassed, alarmed or distressed" the Chinese premier during his visit to Cambridge on February 2.