"The Thai police said Wednesday that their main suspect in a deadly attack on a Bangkok shrine has a Chinese passport indicating he is from the far western region of Xinjiang, but that they had not yet verified whether the passport was authentic. If confirmed, that information would strengthen the case made by some security analysts that the Aug. 17 bombing of the Erawan Shrine - which killed 20 people, including many ethnic Chinese tourists - was connected to the political grievances of Uighurs, a Turkic, mostly Muslim people. Uighurs in Xinjiang say they are oppressed by the ethnic Han, who dominate China," The New York Times reports.

Reuters reports, "Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a resumption of multilateral nuclear talks with North Korea on Wednesday and said he opposed any move to worsen tension. North and South Korea averted a full-on military confrontation last week and reached an agreement to improve ties following a rare exchange of artillery fire over their heavily fortified border. Xi made his call during a meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Beijing. "China has all along upheld the aim of a denuclearised Korean peninsula, the maintaining of the peninsula's peace and stability and resolving issues via dialogue and consultations," Xi said, according to China's Foreign Ministry. China believed previous agreements reached during so-called six-party talks with North Korea - which include the United States, Japan, Russia and South Korea - should be fulfilled, along with relevant U.N. resolutions, he added."

"Sellers eager to cash out before a four-day holiday in China and buyers believed to be backed by Beijing staged a stock-market tug-of-war in Shanghai on Wednesday, leaving shares down slightly after a tumultuous trading session. Deepening worries over China's slowdown pushed down most markets elsewhere in the region, including the Australian dollar, which hit its lowest level in more than six years. The Shanghai Composite Index finished down 0.2% at 3160.17. But it staged two striking rebounds during the trading day: The benchmark was down as much as 4.7% in the morning, before surging into positive territory. It slumped into the negative in the afternoon, only to surge again in the final half-hour of trading," The Wall Street Journal writes.