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Regina Ip introduces New People's Party to Beijing
New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee will meet the director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Wang Guangya , in Beijing, accompanied by deputy chairman Michael Tien Puk-sun and Dr Louis Shih Tai-cho. She will formally introduce her party to the top Beijing official for Hong Kong affairs. The meeting will be one of many in the five-day visit to the capital by a delegation of more than 20 party members, professionals and scholars.
All eyes on Fed's assessment of US economy
With global financial markets reeling, the US Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's policy-setting panel, is set to discuss interest rates. They are expected to remain unchanged, but investors will be pouring over the accompanying statement for the central bank's assessment of the US economy and any hints of new measures to stimulate growth.
Commemorations move from Hiroshima to Nagasaki
Commemorations will be held to mark the 66th anniversary of the 1945 nuclear attack on Nagasaki, as Japan fights the nuclear disaster triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. About 50,000 people attended a memorial in Hiroshima on Saturday to mark its atomic bombing on August 6, 1945. The death toll by the end of the year was estimated at about 140,000 out of the city's population of 350,000. The US dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. Japan surrendered six days later.