The Japanese government is set to announce a record-high budget of some 96.7 trillion yen (798 billion U.S. dollars) for the next fiscal year to cope with the nation's dire demographic circumstances and related welfare costs, government ...
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After a decade of negotiations, China and Australia will begin to implement a Free Trade Agreement on Sunday. Significant benefits to both economies are expected. Under the Free Trade Agreement, or FTA, nearly 86 percent of the two ...
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The US Congress' approval of the quota and governance reforms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been welcomed by the People's Bank of China (PBOC). According to the statement on the central bank's official website, this ...
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The free trade agreement (FTA) between China and South Korea will officially come into force from Sunday, providing an opportunity for the two countries to push forward their already-close cooperation partnership further. Seoul's trade ...
A file photo shows a high-speed train, independently developed by China, departs from the Harbin West Station, NE China's Heilongjiang Province. Ways to keep the economy steady through structural reforms are said to be the focus as ...
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The Chinese government will make fiscal policy more forceful and monetary policy more flexible to keep growth in a proper range in 2016, an official statement showed Monday. "China's current proactive fiscal policy needs to be more ...
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China's central bank on Saturday welcomed the ratification of the 2010 quota and governance reforms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the U.S. Congress on Dec. 18, 2015. "Such approval means that the 2010 reforms, after ...
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China and Pakistan ink a financing agreement on a coal power project in Pakistan’s Thar Coalfield. China and Pakistan have inked a financing agreement on a coal power project located in the Thar Coalfield in Pakistan. The project ...
China's central bank has reportedly surveyed banks on the possibility and potential impact of removing its benchmark deposit and lending rates. It's being reported that China's central bank recently surveyed banks on the possibility ...
As one of the first partners of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Germany has deposited its instrument of ratification of the bank at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. Germany has contributed 4.5 billion US dollars, and ...
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Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey has made an apology for saying the wrong name when announcing the winner on air. Harvey says it was his mistake and that he takes full responsibility. He later wrote on his Twitter account that he ...
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A photo shows the household register of China. [Photo: cctv.com] There have been heated discussions over a planned points-based residence registration system in the Chinese capital that accommodates over eight million non-locals. The ...
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From L-R, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, President-designate of COP21 and French ...
China called for implementation on Saturday after a historic deal was sealed in Paris on global efforts to combat climate change. The Paris agreement on climate change was adopted with no objection by the 196 Parties of the United Nations ...
To improve its free trade areas (FTAs) China will step up cooperation with neighboring countries and improve the support and evaluation systems, according to guidelines published by the State Council on Thursday. By speeding up FTA ...