China is going to be the third-largest contributor to UN regular budget 2016-2018, with its assessed contribution accounting for 7.9 percent, said a senior Chinese diplomat Wednesday. The Chinese contribution to the total UN membership ...
Syria has said it's ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help the country form a national unity government. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem made the statement on Thursday during a visit to ...
China and Nepal pledged to expand cooperation, as Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with visiting Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Thapa Thursday in Beijing. China is willing to expand cooperation in connectivity, energy, ...
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Student Li Xiangnan has been charged with the killing of his girlfriend Shao Tong, in the United States, Wenzhou City People's Procuratorate said. Li, 24, a native of east China's Zhejiang Province, is accused of strangling his girlfriend ...
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Chinese legislators on Thursday urged intensified efforts to keep local government debt under control, warning against potential default in the future. Legislators made the comments when attending a panel discussion of the ongoing ...
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China hopes the visit of Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister Thapa would cement China-Nepal comprehensive cooperative partnership, said a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson here on Thursday. Thapa, also Nepalese foreign minister, is on an ...
China is expected to launch a stock connect scheme between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong bourses next year, said a senior official of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on Friday. The stock connect schemes allow investors to ...
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Japan's Cabinet has approved a record-high military budget for fiscal 2016. The 5 trillion yen, or 42 billion U.S. dollar plan marks the fourth consecutive year that Japan has increased its defense budget. This is the first defense ...
A new Chinese-made space-based telescope tasked with searching for signs of "dark matter" has formally begun its mission, beaming its first set of data to ground stations on Thursday. The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, ...
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Shen Hao, former president of 21st Century Media Co. Ltd., was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for blackmailing companies by threatening negative coverage. Shen was convicted of extortion and forced transactions, among other ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called on secretary-generals and general office directors of government agencies to better serve the operation of governmental organs. Li made the remarks while meeting with participants of a national ...
Hong Kong has replaced New York this year as the world's biggest IPO market by the amount of funds raised. According to data from Reuters, companies have raised 25 billion U.S. dollars from initial public offerings in Hong Kong so far ...
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China's latest efforts to stimulate its economy by deepening structural reform will produce rich "dividends" shared within China's borders and across the world. While the effectiveness of traditional demand-side policy support lessens, ...
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Chinese entrepreneurs are not as confident about the macro economy as they were in the previous quarter, said a quarterly survey by China's central bank Thursday. Based on a survey of over 5,000 industrial businessmen nationwide, the ...
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Chinese stocks tumbled for the second straight session Thursday led by brokerages and the coal sector. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.65 percent to close at 3,612.49 points. The Shenzhen index lost 0.58 percent to finish ...
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