China boosts ties with Central Asia ..BY: By Frank Ching ..LD: THE Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, an international anti-terrorist group formed by China, Russia and four Central Asian countries only months before the Sept 11 attacks, inaugurated a new.

(From New Straits Times (Malaysia))

THE Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, an international anti-terrorist group formed by China, Russia and four Central Asian countries only months before the Sept 11 attacks, inaugurated a new anti-terrorism centre in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, last week when the fledgling grouping held a summit meeting, marking the completion of its organisational structure.

President Hu Jintao, in a speech to mark the launching of the Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure, called for efforts to tackle the problems of both regional confrontation and poverty, which he said were the roots of terrorism.

"Terrorism," he said, "is not automatically related to …