Kuwait-based food distributor Mezzan Holding has acquired a 70% stake in Al Safi Food Company for SAR90.75m ($24m). This will allow the Kuwait-based company to manufacture and distribute food and beverage products in Saudi Arabia using Al ...
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Briefs for UN Security Council highlight how millions of people remain trapped in a vicious cycle of violence and hunger Joint FAO-WFP news release 29 July 2016, Rome - Protracted conflicts affecting 17 countries have driven millions ...
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Hape ambassadors donated 100 sets of 30th anniversary building blocks to 40 families with autistic children in Beijing. Hape has begun its donation ceremonies in Nepal and China as part of the firm's 30th anniversary year-long We Care We ...
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Three volumes of "Flora of the Pan-Himalayas" have been published as part of a project to understand the region's plant life, scientists said Saturday. Started in 2010, the compilation aims to provide scientific guidance for protecting ...
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Over 50 people were killed in a traffic accident along a highway in Afghanistan's northern province of Samangan on Thursday, police said. "A long-distance bus collided with an oil truck on a bridge at around evening. The bus plunged into ...
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Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states attend a signing ceremony on Dec 15 after the 14th Meeting of Prime Ministers of SCO in Zhengzhou, Henan province on December 15, 2015. [Photo: Xinhua] The 14th prime ...
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded its prime ministers' meeting in central Chinese city of Zhengzhou by promising to boost regional economic cooperation. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and leaders from other SCO members, ...
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A signing ceremony was held here Wednesday for China's donation of 1 million U.S. dollars in cash for quake relief in Afghanistan. A 7.5-magnitude devastating earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan in late October this year, leaving ...
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met with Vice President Li Yuanchao in Kabul on November 3. Li Yuanchao passed on the oral message from President Xi Jinping to President Ghani. President Xi Jinping sent his best regards and wishes to ...
A cargo train will start operating in 2016 between central China's Henan Province and Luxembourg, Zhengzhou International Hub Development and Construction Company said on Tuesday. According to the plans, the train will exit China at ...
On November 2, the official of the Foreign Assistance Department of the Ministry of Commerce made comments on the emergency aid materials provided by the Chinese government to Afghanistan for combating the earthquake. On October 26, a ...
The US deficit, down from the $1 trillion-plus levels of Obama's first four years and a $483 billion gap in fiscal 2014, will stay largely flat in 2016, then begin to march upward due to rising costs for debt and caring for fast-retiring ...
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Chinese and foreign journalists from the department of Chinese, Pashto, Tamil and Turkish under CRI Online visited the 1500-year-old Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang city, experiencing China's world-class rock carving art on September 19. ...
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President of China Chamber of Commerce of Foodstuffs and Native Produce Bian Zhenhu attended the opening ceremony of China (Qinghai) International Carpet Exhibition 2015 and made a speech at the Forum on the Tibetan Carpet Development in ...
Chinese Vice-Minister of Commerce Gao Yan and the Minister of Finance of Afghanistan Eklil Ahmad Hakimi jointly presided over the 2nd Meeting of China-Afghanistan Joint Committee of Economics and Trade in Beijing on June 26. Both sides ...
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