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Journalists make black statement on police
Journalists are expected to dress in black in a 'Black Monday' campaign organised by the Hong Kong Journalists Association to protest against Police Commissioner Andy Tsang Wai-hung's defence of officers' tactics in handling protesters and the force's arrangements for the media during Vice-Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the city last month.
High-powered delegation attends Caribbean forum
Vice-Premier Wang Qishan leads a government delegation that includes representatives of more than 80 mainland companies to the third China-Caribbean Economic and Trade Co-operation Forum, which takes place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, today and tomorrow. The leaders and ministers of Caribbean countries will also be attending the forum. Two-way trade has enjoyed rapid growth in recent years, rising from US$2.02 billion in 2004 to US$7.16 billion last year.
First British PM in Moscow since Litvinenko row
British Prime Minister David Cameron meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the first prime ministerial visit since relations were severely strained by the assassination of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko (left) in London in 2006. In a death-bed statement, Litvinenko blamed Vladimir Putin, then president of Russia, for his murder, an accusation the Kremlin called 'absurd'. Russia refused to hand over an ex-KGB bodyguard, Andrei Lugovoi, wanted in Britain for Litvinenko's murder. The dispute sparked the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats and Russia's closure of British cultural offices outside Moscow.