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Newly-released economic data for the first quarter of this year show that China's economy remains stable despite downward pressure.Overseas experts and business leaders say the Chinese economy has shown strong resilience despite the pressure and global challenges and continues to have massive fu...
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The killing of a black man by a white police officer sparks a series of protests during the past three days in Grand Rapids, Michigan, local media reported.The protests first erupted Wednesday after the Grand Rapids Police Department released several videos of an officer's encounter with Patrick...
The death toll from the landslides and flooding spawned by tropical storm Megi has risen to 167, with 110 still missing, the government said on Saturday.The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported that 164 died in the central Philippines and three in the southern Philippines...
The price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) or jet fuel in India was hiked by a marginal 0.2 percent to an all-time high on Saturday. According to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers, the ATF price rose by 277.5 Indian rupees (3.64 U.S. dollars) per kiloliter to 113,202.33 in the In...
China's exports of textile and apparel maintained rapid growth during the first quarter of the year, data from the China National Textile and Apparel Council showed.Textile and apparel exports rose 11.2 percent year on year to 72.25 billion U.S. dollars from January to March.In breakdown, textil...
China will cut the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Saturday, the country's top economic planner said Friday.Based on recent changes in international oil prices, the retail prices of gasoline and diesel will be decreased by 545 yuan (about 85.3 U.S. dollars) and 530 yuan per tonne, resp...
China's transformation of energy structure and green technology development will attract massive demands for investment in the future, said a report.Estimations predict that in the next 30 years, the investment demand brought by low carbon development in China's energy, industry, constructio...
The Chinese currency Renminbi (RMB) has been gaining popularity in the global market, and has made major breakthroughs in internationalization, a Turkish financing expert has said.As China's economic fundamentals are sound, RMB assets are becoming increasingly attractive to global investors, sai...
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Malaysia recorded 7,739 new Covid-19 infections as of midnight Monday, bringing the total tally to 4,333,557, according to the health ministry.They included 23 new imported cases and 7,716 local transmissions, data released on the ministry showed. Another 19 deaths have been reported from Covid-19, ...
The first US private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) arrived at the orbiting laboratory Saturday.The mission, codenamed Ax-1, was launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Florida on Friday...
China's bulk commodities market reported increased supply and demand in March, data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing shows.The China Bulk Merchandise Index, a gauge of activity in the domestic bulk commodities market, came in at 100.9 percent last month, above the boom-bust ...
Australia's medical regulator has provisionally approved Covid-19 booster vaccines for adolescents as young as 12.The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) on Friday announced provisional approval for Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine as a booster for Australians aged 12-15, recommending that peopl...
A Chinese envoy on Thursday called on the international community to do whatever it can to help bring peace and stability to Mali."The international community should bear in mind the overall situation of maintaining regional stability, actively provide help and support, and do more things that ...
China launched a new Earth observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Thursday.The satellite, Gaofen-3 03, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:47am (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully.The satellite will be networked with the...
The global shipments of virtual reality (VR) headsets are forecast to surge by 43.6 percent year on year to 15.73 million units in 2022, according to an industry report.The worldwide market for augmented reality (AR) and VR headsets jumped 92.1 percent year over year in 2021, with shipments reaching...
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday extended an invitation to all political parties to join the government to find solutions to the ongoing crisis in the country.The invitation came hours after cabinet ministers resigned from their posts.In a statement, the President's Media Divisi...
A recent industry report has highlighted China's impressive advances in computing power, ranking the country as one of the best among major economies in the field.The report, jointly released by the Tsinghua University, the International Data Corporation and Chinese IT firm Inspur Information, c...
China will raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Friday, the country's top economic planner said on Thursday.The prices of gasoline and diesel will both increase by 110 yuan (about 17.33 U.S. dollars) per tonne in the seventh consecutive upward adjustment since the end of last year...
Over 40,000 pieces of wreckage from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had been recovered by Wednesday, an official told a pressbriefing on Thursday.Most of the wreckage pieces have been transferred to a storage site for sorting and furt...
The number of 5G connections in China is expected to reach 892 million by the end of 2025, according to a recent analysis by GSMA, an international association of mobile operators.This figure is higher than GSMA's forecast around half a year ago at the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, de...
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