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 ...
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 ...
China aims to lift over 10 million rural people out of poverty in 2016, so as to make a good start for the next five years, according to a poverty relief meeting on Thursday. The next year's work will integrate the central and local ...
Tags: Rural People, out of Poverty
Portuguese bus company Greenbus has augmented its fleet by purchasing two Setra S 516 HDH touring coaches. The two three-axle vehicles, equipped with the TopSky Panorama glass roof, are the first Setra TopClass 500 models to be delivered to ...
Tags: Greenbus, Setra S 516 HDH, Auto
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts has signed a development agreement with Barcenas Group International Inc., to bring 16 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts shops to Panama over the next five years. "This agreement marks our company's second partner in Central ...
Tags: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Barcenas Group, Food
Ground stations in China have received data sent by "Wukong" -- the country's first dark matter probe satellite, scientists announced Monday. A station in Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang successfully tracked and received data from ...
Tags: Dark Matter Probe
British clothing and food retailer Marks & Spencer has opened its first store in Beijing, located in the CBD area. Costas Antimissaris, International Director of the retailer, says their strategy is to focus on big cities. "Our strategy ...
Tags: Marks&Spencer, food retailer, clothing
Wanda Group will build a shopping complex in downtown Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it announced on Friday. The shopping complex, with an investment of 3.5 billion yuan (540 million U.S. dollars), will ...
Tags: Wanda, Shopping Complex
Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
Tags: Tsinghua Unigroup, semiconductor, Processing Machinery
Dark chocolate energy supplement Energems has been accepted into membership with the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). The recognition marks a major accomplishment for the retail product, which began a branded product launch ...
Tags: Dark chocolate, CRN, Food
Stormy Kromer, the U.S. manufacturer of headwear, apparel, and accessories, has signed on as a Hat Trick sponsor of the 2016 Labatt Blue U.S. Pond Hockey Championships held Jan. 14-17, 2016 on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, MN. “We ...
Tags: Stormy Kromer, glove, Sporting Goods
China's emerging industrial sectors, inspired by technological innovation and innovative policies, have developed rapidly in 2015. The boom in telecommunication, high-tech manufacturing, e-commerce, new energy and other emerging ...
The China Cultural Center in Fiji was jointly inaugurated by senior Chinese and Fijian officials on Dec 15, 2015. The China Cultural Center in Fiji was jointly inaugurated by senior Chinese and Fijian officials on Tuesday, taking cultural ...
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 ...
Over 15 years after the establishment of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (the "FOCAC"), China-Africa economic and trade cooperation has become a highlight in international cooperation with Africa and a model of South-South ...
Tags: FOCAC, financing cooperation