Hourly News updated 08:00 2011/11/13

 Chinese president delivers keynote speech at APEC CEO summit

Chinese President Hu Jintao has called on Asia-Pacific economies to make all efforts to achieve a balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative 1 and safe economic growth.
Addressing the ongoing 2 APEC CEO summit in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Chinese leader analyzed 3 the current global and regional economic situation and made proposals for economic growth and stability. 
He called for improving global economic governance, promoting green growth, and deepening the regional economic integration 4 to stimulate 5 the global economic recovery. 
The two-day summit, which opened Friday, focuses on advancing trade and economic policy and partnerships 6 for the future of the APEC region.
 
Chinese, Peruvian leaders discuss bilateral 7 cooperation
Earlier, President Hu Jintao Friday met with his Peruvian counterpart Ollanta Humala Tasso in Honolulu, Hawaii, to exchange views on how to further bilateral ties.
Hu congratulated Humala on his election as president, saying he expected to build good working relations and personal friendship with the Peruvian president to jointly 8 push forward the China-Peru relations. 
Peru is one of China's main trading partners in Latin America. Last year, bilateral trade increased by 48 percent from a year earlier to 9.7 billion U.S. dollars. 
The two countries also have maintained excellent coordination 9 and communications in international affairs.
 
Italian Parliament passed austerity measures
The Italian Parliament has passed a package of austerity measures demanded by the European Union, paving the way for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign and allow President Giorgio Napolitano to form a new government.
Berlusconi has announced earlier that he would resign after these measures were approved in both houses of parliament, following a vote on Tuesday in which he lost the majority in the House. 
After Berlusconi's resignation, President Giorgio Napolitano will start consultations 10 with parties, trying to form a new emergency technocrat 11 government. 
If such efforts fail, Napolitano would dissolve the parliament and call a snap election. 
Economist 12 and former European commissioner 13, Mario Monti, has been nominated by the president as a senator for life, which is seen that he would be the best choice to replace Berlusconi.
 
Syrian media urges AL to undertake independent decision to resolve crisis
Syrian media has urged the Arab League to undertake a swift action and an independent decision as a gesture of goodwill 14 to show its determination to resolve the Syrian crisis. 
The Arab League, which brokered 15 a peace plan to end the political crisis in Syria last week, is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting in Cairo to assess Syria's response. 
In a front-page editorial, the state-run al-Thawra newspaper said the United States is pressing the Arab League to impose a political and economic boycott 16 of Syria, but has failed to achieve its anti-Syria plan.
 
Palestinians to keep bidding for UN membership: FM
The Palestinian leadership will keep bidding for a full membership in the United Nations until the Security Council votes on the Palestinian request, said Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Riad Al-Maliki. 
Al-Maliki's remarks came a day after the Security Council's admission committee failed to agree unanimously on passing the Palestinian application for voting. 
The Palestinians accuse Washington of putting pressure on the Security Council members to prevent them from supporting the Palestinian request, which was submitted in September. 
The Palestinians are unlikely to press for a voting session in the Security Council because the United States will use its veto to block their bid.
Washington wants the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations 17 with Israel instead of seeking a state through the UN.
 
Atambayev officially declared winner in Kyrgyzstan's presidential poll
Incumbent 18 Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev has won a landslide 19 victory in Kyrgyzstan's presidential elections.
The Central Election Committee says Atambayev was elected president of the country after obtaining nearly 63 percent of the vote.
Atambayev's main rival Adahan Madumarov, leader of the "Butun Kyrgyzstan" party, gained 15 percent of the vote, followed by Kamchybek Tashiev, leader of the parliamentary faction 20 Ata-Zhurt with 14 percent. 
Outgoing interim 21 president Roza Otunbayeva said international observers have reported that the election was democratic, open and transparent 22.
 
Death toll 23 rises to 28 in SW China coal mine gas leak
28 miners have been confirmed dead and many others still trapped underground after a gas leak occurred in a coal mine in southwest China's Yunnan province. 
Luo Lin, director of the State Administration of Work Safety, along with a group of gas experts from the Chinese Academy of Engineering rushed to the accident site on Saturday afternoon. 
He ordered local authorities to do anything possible to save the trapped miners. 
Authorities say the mine was operating illegally, having had its license 24 revoked 25 a year ago.
 
World Diabetes 26 day approaches as almost 9 percent of Beijingers suffer from the illness
Some 8.6 percent of Beijing's permanent residents between 18 and 79 years old are diabetes sufferers, the Health Bureau of Beijing Municipality has revealed as Monday's World Diabetes Day approaches.
Deputy chief of the bureau, Mao Yu, says diabetes has become one of the most serious threats to health in Beijing, and the aging population is expected to develop more diabetic cases in the coming years.
As well as genetics, diabetes can also be triggered by inadequate 27 exercise, a poor diet, drinking, smoking and other unhealthy life styles, with obesity 28 the major cause of diabetes among children and adolescents, Mao Yu said.
To promote awareness 29 around World Diabetes Day on Monday, the bureau has launched a campaign of free diabetes tests.