ON 10 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

ON 10 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

Will be up dated later on September 10, 2010

210 BC: Death of Qin Shi Huangdi, first emperor of China
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5229/is_2003/ai_n19149596/
www.china-travel-golden-route.com/qin_shi_huang.html
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1308: Death of Go-Nijo, 94th emperor of Japan (1301-1308), born on March 9, 1285
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Nijo

1385: Birth of Le Loi, national hero of Viet Nam, founder of the Later Le Dynasty
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA_L%E1%BB%A3i
www.answers.com/topic/later-le-dynasty

1895: Birth of Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian writer, who died October 18, 1976
www.vishwanathasahityapeetham.com/new/about.html

1896: Birth of Chinese communist general Ye Ting
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Ting

1912: Birth of Mary Walter, Filipina actress, who died on February 23, 1993
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Walter

1912: Birth of Basappa Banappa Jatti, Indian vice-president (1974-1980) who died on June 8, 2002
www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/governmen...itics/b-d-jatti.html

1946: Fontainebleau conference ends after the parties fail to reach an agreement on Cochin-China

1948: Birth of Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Chengzhi

1953: After the War of Korea, signature of a treaty between Soviet Union and North Korea

1955: In Geneva, Chinese-US agreement for the repatriation of US civilians

1969: Birth of Ai Jing, Chinese singer and painter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Jing
english.cri.cn/4406/2008/10/29/1141s419151.htm
www.womenofchina.cn/Profiles/Artists/210945.jsp


1980: Zhao Ziyang becomes new Chinese prime minister

1986: Birth of Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol
wiki.d-addicts.com/Uchi_Hiroki
asianfanatics.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t274798.html

2000: Death of Zaib-un-Nissa hamidullah, Pakistani female journalist and writer, born in 1921
web.archive.org/web/20030114183134/www.d...2000/09/12/nat10.htm

2007: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999 led by General Musharraf

September 9, 2010

Chinese Advocate Released From Prison, but Confinement Continues

A blind, self-taught lawyer imprisoned by Chinese authorities in 2006 after years of exposing government abuses was freed on Thursday and confined to his home in Shandong Province, surrounded by guards and watched by closed-circuit surveillance cameras. The lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, earned global attention — and the government’s enmity — by challenging the legality of government policies that exploited farmers, discriminated against the disabled and brutally enforced China’s one-child policy.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39058499/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/world/asia/10china.html?ref=asia

ON 9 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on September 9, 2010

1466: Birth of Ashikaga Yoshitane, 10th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who died on May 23, 1523
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ashikaga-Yoshitane

1487: Death of Chinese Ming dynasty emperor Chenghua (1464-1497), born on December 9, 1447
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenghua_Emperor
library.thinkquest.org/C0126670/emperors/chenghua_en.htm

1612: Death of Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord, born in 1570
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Nakagawa-Hidenari
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9...akagawa_Hidenari.jpg

1878: Birth of Sergio Osmena, 4th President of the Philippines, who died on October 19, 1961
www.angelfire.com/on/philpres/osmena.html

1892: Birth of Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress, who died on October 18, 1961
www.silentera.com/people/actresses/Aoki-Tsuru.html

1905: Birth of Hussain Sha, Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram who died on September 24, 1981
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmarishi_Hussain_Sha

1911: Birth of Kozaburo Yoshimura, Japanese film maker who died on November 7, 2000
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5212/is_2000/ai_n19128305

1920: Birth of Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and scientist, who died on August 17, 1993
lsec.cc.ac.cn/fengkangprize/fkbib.html

1935: Birth of Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author who died on April 23, 2002
infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_452_2005-01-22.html

1942: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?a...=Article&id=6578

1944: Beginning of the negotiations between Gandhi and Jinnah on the Muslim question (up to 22)


1945: Japanese forces in China surrender to the Chinese Guomindang government representative general Ho Ying-chin
www.taiwandocuments.org/surrender02.htm


1946: Birth of Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayato_Tani


1948: The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) is proclaimed by Kim Il-sung

2010 AUGUST MAIN EVENTS

1 AUGUST

Raza Haider, leader of the Karachi based MQM is shot dead
www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/world/asia/04...ml?_r=1&ref=asia
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/20108322910182928.html

2 AUGUST

The mayor of Hiroshima, in Japan, and a Chinese photographer who has documented pollution in the face of official harassment are among the winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay prize. The award, named after an ex-president of the Philippines, is widely seen as Asia's version of the Nobel prize.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10840011

3 AUGUST

Beijing should begin to remove its missiles pointed at Taiwan without preconditions because such a move will mark an important step towards improving relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, said the Taiwan’s Presidential Office.
www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/china-taiwan.../267114/Ma-wants.htm

5 AUGUST

Phyo Min Thein, chairman of the Union Democracy Party (UDP), told Reuters election laws were too strict and had been drafted in a way that ensured a party backed by the military regime would win most house seats and prolong the junta's grip on power.
www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia...STIStory_562551.html

6 AUGUST

Japan marked the 65th anniversary on Friday of the 1945 uranium bomb attack on Hiroshima in which an estimated 140,000 people died. The ceremony was the first ever to be attended by representatives from the United States, Britain and France.
www.france24.com/en/20100805-us-attend-b...agasaki-world-war-ii
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10889895

7 AUGUST

Eight foreigners and two Afghans have been found shot dead next to abandoned vehicles in the north-eastern Afghan province of Badakhshan. The foreigners are believed to be six Americans, one Briton and a German, who worked for an international charity providing eye care and medical help.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10900338
www.france24.com/en/20100807-eight-forei...an-terrorism-germans

8 AUGUST

Rescue workers are hunting for an estimated 2,000 people who are still missing after landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 127 in flood-hit northwest China, state media has reported. Authorities have sent nearly 3,000 soldiers and about 100 medical experts to help in search and rescue effort in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province on Sunday, Xinhua news agency said.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-08/08/content_11116883.htm

9 AUGUST

Abu Bakar Bashir, the Indonesian Muslim cleric once imprisoned for his links to the group behind the Bali bombings, has been arrested for alleged involvement with a new armed group.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...108954020564174.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-1091031
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapaci...f-al-Qaeda-Indonesia

10 AUGUST

Japan Apologizes to South Korea on Colonization: “For the enormous damage and suffering caused during this colonial rule, I would like to express once again our deep remorse and heartfelt apology,” Mr. Kan said in a statement, issued ahead of the Aug. 29 centenary of Japan’s annexation of Korea.
www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/world/asia/11japan.html?ref=asia

11 AUGUST

Cambodia slams Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, saying he was incapable of leading a government or being a member of Asean or even the United Nations.
www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/08/12...bhisit-30135743.html

13 AUGUST

A court martial has found the former Sri Lankan armed forces chief, General Sarath Fonseka, guilty of engaging in politics while on active service. Gen Fonseka would be stripped of his rank and medals once the government has ratified the decision, officials said.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10965135
www.france24.com/en/20100813-sri-lanka-a...martial-tamil-tigers

Pakistan's president has directed that there should be no official celebrations of Independence Day on Saturday as the country tries to cope with devastating floods.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10968127

Burma sets 7 November date for first poll in 20 years. The polls are the first since 1990 when the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained pro-democracy leader, won a landslide victory but was not allowed to take power.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...081341211607843.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10961366

14 AUGUST

The lawmakers, from eight European right-wing parties, paid homage at Yasukuni shrine on Saturday and joined a Shinto ritual at the shrine's main sanctuary, as part of a series of events to mark the 65th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...081414738993868.html

15 AUGUST

Lee Myung-bak, the South Korean president, has vowed he will not tolerate any military provocations from the North amid cross-border tensions on the peninsula. "The North must never venture to carry out another provocation nor will we tolerate it if they do so again
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...081555555107627.html

China is holding a day of mourning for those killed in floods and mudslides, as the death toll rose to 1,239 people. Public entertainment has been suspended, with cinemas and karaoke bars closed, and government offices and embassies are flying flags at half-mast, state media reported.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10975066

19 AUGUST

Seven people were killed on Thursday when a member of the Uighur minority drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and blew it up on the outskirts of Aksu in China's Xinjiang region, the site of deadly ethnic unrest last year.
www.france24.com/en/20100819-seven-kille...n-uighurs-aksu-china

21 AUGUST

Pakistan has accepted five million dollars in flood aid from India in a rare gesture of goodwill between the two bitter rivals. Twenty million people have been affected by Pakistan’s worst natural disaster in decades.
www.france24.com/en/20100821-islamabad-a...emergency-assistance

22 AUGUST

The Indian and Japanese foreign ministers have held talks on a civil nuclear co-operation agreement. The Japanese minister, Katsuya Okada, said the decision to start negotiations had been one of the toughest he had ever had to make.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11050615

23 AUGUST

Police in the Philippines stormed a bus full of Hong Kong tourists to end a 10-hour hostage crisis, leaving seven people and the gunman dead. The gunman, a former police officer who was allegedly demanding his job back after being dismissed for misconduct, had earlier sprayed machine gun fire at the hostages
edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23...yHI9lS&wom=false

Thailand says it will resume diplomatic ties with Cambodia after Phnom Penh announced the resignation of ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra as its economic advisor. The two countries recalled their ambassadors in November 2009 amid a row over the controversial appointment.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11059580

25 AUGUST

Dozens of students and teachers at a girls' school in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, have been sickened by an unknown gas that spread through classrooms. this incident follows a similar pattern seen in other recent attacks at girls' schools involving an airborne substance which could be some form of gas.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/201082513452971438.html

26 AUGUST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is paying his second visit to China within a year, South Korean media report.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11093216

A solemn Mass at the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, marked the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth on Thursday. People from all walks of life gathered at the global headquarters of the order of nuns, which Mother Teresa founded 60 years ago.
edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/26...yHI9lS&wom=false
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11103145

27 AUGUST

Former US President Jimmy Carter has secured the release of an American citizen detained in North Korea. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 31, was sentenced to eight years' hard labour in April, after being found guilty of illegally entering the country from China.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11105918

Burmese junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe and his deputy, Gen Maung Aye have resigned their military posts, along with six other top military officers, according to sources in Naypyidaw on Friday. The eight top men will retain their government posts, however, the sources said. Than Shwe, 77, will continue to head the Burmese government, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).
www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=19323

Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has criticised the US military's plans to begin withdrawing troops from the country in July 2011. Mr Karzai said that announcing a date for the withdrawal had given the Taliban insurgency "a morale boost".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11106290

28 AUGUST

China's top lawmaking body Saturday approved controversial electoral reforms for Hong Kong, the city's government-run radio station said. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing voted 98 per cent in favor of the reforms, RTHK radio reported.
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapaci...ong-election-reforms

29 AUGUST

The man nominated to be South Korea's new prime minister has withdrawn his candidacy amid allegations about past financial irregularities. Kim Tae-ho faced questions from lawmakers at his confirmation hearing last week about suspected misconduct when he was a provincial governor.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11123348
www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/world/asia/30korea.html?ref=as

31 AUGUST

South Korea offered 10 billion won (S$11 million) in emergency aid to North Korea to help with recovery from floods that ravaged the destitute state. The offer is the first large scale aid from Seoul after the sinking of one of the South's navy ships in March that it blamed on a submarine attack by the North.
news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia...20100831-234833.html

8 SEPTEMBER

Philippine massacre trial begins

An influential politician in the Philippines has gone on trial for the alleged killing of 57 people in the worst political massacre in the country's history. Ampatuan was running to succeed his father as governor of the Maguindanao province last November when he and more than 100 armed men allegedly stopped a convoy that belonged a political rival and murdered the passengers, afterwards pushing their bodies into mass graves they had dug beforehand.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/...109833016435404.html
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11225151

South Korea Aims Sanctions at 126 Iranian Entities

South Korea listed 126 Iranian companies and individuals for economic sanctions on Wednesday, including a major Iranian banking operation in Asia, despite Tehran’s warnings that the penalties would endanger South Korea’s growing trade and energy ties with Iran.
www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/world/asia/09...ml?_r=1&ref=asia

Boat collisions spark Japan-China diplomatic row

A diplomatic row has intensified between China and Japan after collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese trawler on Tuesday.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11225522
www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-09/08/content_11270504.htm

ON 8 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY

Guests, for the prior days, go to page 61

Updated on September 8, 2010

1380: Russian defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning the decline of Tatars
www.fanaticus.org/DBA/battles/Kulikovo/index.html

1449: Battle of Tumu Fortress. Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor Zhengtong
www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Battle_of_Tumu_Fortress/
history.cultural-china.com/en/34History6341.html

1852: Birth of Korea Emperor Gojong (Gwangmu), forced to abdicate by Japan on 18 July 1907 and who died on 21 January 1919
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojong_of_Korea

1930: Birth of Nguyen Cao Ky, Vietnamese prime minister (1965-1967) and vice-president (197-1971)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Cao_Ky

1933: Birth of Asha Bhonsle, Indian singer
asha-bhosle.tripod.com/


1945: Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo attempts to take his own life rather than face a war crimes tribunal

1945: First British troops parachute into Kemayoran Airport at Jakarta

1945: US troops land in south of Japanese-held Korea
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/amer...artition-the-country

1951: End of the conference of San-Francisco for a peace treaty with Japan . Signature of a US-Japan Security which will enter into force on 28 April 1952
www.taiwandocuments.org/sanfrancisco01.htm


1954: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established to stop communist spread in South-East Asia
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/seato-established
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/usmu003.asp

1958: Birth of Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor
www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2132

1958: Nikita Krushchev warns US president Eisenhover that any attack on Communist China would be considered as an attack against Soviet Union

1959: Following a call from Laos, United Nations Security Council decides to send a mission in this country

1963: Birth of Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japanese comedian
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Matsumoto
www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/educ...ch/v20147597pRqjNd4Z

1968: For the first time, a South Vietnam general is killed
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/arvn-general-killed

1970: Birth of Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Yuji-Nishizawa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANA_Flight_61

1972: Birth of Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor
www.tv.com/tomokazu-seki/person/82289/biography.html
www.seiyuu.info/extendedlisting.php?seiyuu=Tomokazu+Seki

1980: First Soviet forces in Panshir valley (Afghanistan)

1981: Death of HidekiYukawa, Nobel Prize in Physics (1949), born in January 1907
nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laur...1949/yukawa-bio.html

1981: Violent demonstrations in Kabul after the government called all the reservists

1982: Death of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, chief minister of Kashmir, born on December 5, 1905
www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Sheikh_Muhammad_Abdullah.aspx

1995: Death of Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang), Chinese writer born on September 30, 1920
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Chang
history.cultural-china.com/en/48History7679.html

1996: Birth of Krystal Reyes, lolita Filipina actress
en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Krystal_Reyes


2008: Sri Lanka's government announces a ban on foreign aid workers and many of their local colleagues from working in Tamil-rebel held areas in the north
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7604933.stm

2008: Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp has won 23 out of the 30 elected seats in the Legislative Council, and so retains a key veto over future bills
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7603312.stm

2008: Death of Ahn Jae-hwan, South Korean actor, born on April 25, 1972
www.dramabeans.com/2008/09/ahn-jae-hwan-...in-apparent-suicide/
sookyeong.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/host-...und-dead-in-his-car/

6 SEPTEMBER

North Korea to free South Korean fishing boat

North Korea said Monday (September 6) it will release a South Korean fishing boat and seven crew members it has detained since last month, in the first reconciliatory gesture made by the communist state in several months.
www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100906000914

Visits to get Sino-US ties back on track

A number of high-profile US guests and "positive signals" on Monday indicate that China and the US are trying to get relations, which have suffered in recent months, back on track. There was even a hint of progress on military ties, which have been at a standstill recently.
www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-09/07/content_11264530.htm
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...AR2010090601437.html
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-09/07/c_13482866.htm

7 SEPTEMBRE

Burma's leader visits old friends

Burmese leader General Than Shwe is visiting China at a time when the relationship between the two countries appears strong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11210698
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11210611

September 7, 2010

Six-year-old Ming Ming slipped through the window bars of his home and ended up dangling by his ears eight stories above the ground!
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