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World Economic Forum (WEF) President Borge Brende said on Thursday that he was optimistic about the economic outlook for China in the medium and long-term."We are expecting that the measures taken by China and the Chinese authorities will lead to a revival of growth" and are optimistic abo...
As a new channel for foreign trade, cross-border e-commerce has been injecting endless vitality into Chongqing Municipality, a southwest inland city with massive import and export potential.At the 4th Western China International Fair for Investment and Trade (WCIFIT), held from Thursday to Sunday in...
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Eighteen ministers including Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena were sworn into Sri Lanka's new cabinet before President Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Friday.The President's Office said that among those who took oaths as cabinet ministers were Ali Sabry as the minister of Foreign Affairs, Hari...
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Recent studies have revealed that private Western creditors are responsible for the lion's share of Africa's debt burden.In a report released last week, Britain-based charity Debt Justice found that African governments owe three times more debt to Western banks, asset managers, and oil trade...
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday officially resigned, remitting his mandate to the hands of the president, and putting an end to his national unity government after 17 months in office."President Sergio Mattarella has received Mario Draghi, who ... has reiterated the resignation ...
Former United Kingdom (UK) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss emerged as the final two candidates in the country's Tory leadership race on Wednesday.International Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt was knocked out in the final round of ballot among Conservative la...
Shi Jielian, foreign trade manager of Guangxi Yongjiang Food Industry Co., Ltd., obtained the 13th certificate of origin under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for her company this year, as she received an electronic invoice of "approval" from Nanning Customs in south...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for bold and coordinated responses to slove the ongoing global food crisis. "We face a real risk of multiple famines this year. And next year could be even worse," Guterres warned in his video remarks to a UN General A...
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Sunday dismissed the US president's recent claims over Iran's nuclear activity as a "failed policy of promoting Iranophobia," which seeks to cause tensions and crises in the region.Joe Biden's anti-Iran remarks, which were made during h...
Wildfires have so far burnt more than 22,000 hectares of woodland and scrub in Spain since the start of the heatwave over a week ago, emergency services calculated.Temperatures above 44 degrees centigrade in southern and southwestern Spain and around 40 degrees centigrade for the rest of the country...
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Eighty-four people are known to have died from the heat wave that has struck Spain since July 10, the Carlos III Health Institute, which reports to the Spanish Ministry of Health, said on Friday.All the deaths, which were reported on July 10-12, could be attributed to the scorching heat exceeding 40...
The China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area (SCODA) in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao saw a much busier China-Europe freight train service in the first half of 2022.The demonstration area handled 430 outbound and inbound China-Europe freight trains in the perio...
China's fiscal revenue dropped 10.2 percent year on year during the first half (H1) of this year, official data showed Thursday.The country's fiscal revenue amounted to about 10.52 trillion yuan (about 1.6 trillion U.S. dollars) during the period, according to the Ministry of Finance.Excludi...
China is expected to have nine of the world's top 20 container ports by the end of this year, according to a forecasting report released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).Among the top 20 ports, the Shanghai port will have the most throughput capacity in 2022, the China Science Daily quot...
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Tuesday said he plans to announce a series of measures aimed to reduce the impacts of the worsening economic situation caused in part by rising energy costs.Draghi said at a press conference after meeting with leaders of the country's main trade unions that...
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the development of bilateral economic cooperation, and the situation in Ukraine during a telephone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday. Both leaders "focused on tasks to further promote economic cooperation, including...
During the 28th China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair held in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, a new local energy automobile company signed a procurement and investment contract with a German car maker."This cooperation has paved our way to the EU new energy vehicle (...
Ministries in China have rolled out a raft of supportive policies to keep enterprises and self-employed businesses afloat amid the COVID-19 epidemic, with a focus on cutting fees and taxes.The number of market entities registered in China stood at 159 million by the end of May, up 3.6 percent from t...
Sixty-five flights were canceled on Saturday at Lisbon airport, causing long queues and thousands of passengers without accommodation and alternative solutions.According to the airline TAP, the cancellations were caused by the bursting of the tires of a private jet, which forced the closure of the a...
In the first five months of 2022, China received 47.68 billion U.S. dollars in foreign capital for major foreign-funded projects each with a contracted investment of at least 100 million U.S. dollars, up 40.3 percent year on year, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed Thursday.The sum accounted ...
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