PM BHATTARAI URGES STIFF ACTION AGAINST PERSONS OBSTRUCTING MOVEMENT OF INDIAN REGISTERED VEHICLES Kathmandu, 28 Sept. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai told Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bjjaya Kumar Gachedhar to take firm action against persons involved in stopping the free movement of Indian registered vehicles. CPN Maoist started the move Thursday. UCPN Maoist now leading the government took an intolerant attitude to the CPN Maoist move while doing the same when they were on the street. UCPN Maoist leaders Prachanda and Prime Minister Bhattarai wrote to the ruling government in Delhi during the people’s war they wouldn’t do anything to harm Indian interests in Nepal. nnnn CHINA SAYS JAPANESE PM OBSTINATE Kathmandu, 28 Sept.: China on Thursday assailed Japan’s prime minister as obstinate and wrong for saying his nation won’t compromise in their island dispute, as Japanese lawmakers and business leaders visited Beijing with hopes of mending tiesm AP reports from Beijing.. Relations between Japan and China are at their lowest in years because of their spat over the island group in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Japan says it bought the islands this month to thwart Japanese nationalists’ more radical plans to develop them. But China saw the move as wrecking a prior arrangement with Tokyo, and it and many Chinese have responded with outrage. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said in New York on Wednesday that the islands are clearly an “inherent part of our territory, in light of history and international law.” He said that issues over the islands should be resolved peacefully and by the rule of law. Activist artist Ai Weiwei said he does not intend to pay $1.1 million demanded by Beijing tax officials after he lost a final appeal in the case today, a defiant stance that threatens further confrontation with authorities. Beijing’s No 2 Intermediate Court rejected a second and final appeal of the $2.4 million fine levied against Ai’s design company for alleged tax evasion. The company earlier submitted a financial guarantee of $1.3 million to officials in order to get a review of his case. That money will be automatically collected, Ai said, but he won’t pay the difference. “Our intention is that we are not going to pay,” Ai said. He said he wasn’t sure what will happen as a result and still had to discuss with his lawyers. A Chinese court Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend 10 years ago in Canada. The case had raised diplomatic and legal issues because Beijing insisted on holding the trial even though the crime happened in another country. The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court ruled that Li Ang committed ‘intentional homicide’ in the death of Amanda Zhao, Li’s lawyer Zou Jiaming said. Li and Zhao were in a relationship and living together in Vancouver as students. nnnn