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A lack of 120 million US dollars has affected the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to provide services this year, the agency warned on Sunday, calling for donations."UNRWA has a financial shortfall of approximately 120 million US dollars, an amount that...
Business & Commerce
China will significantly raise the retail prices of gasoline and diesel starting Sunday, the country's top economic planner said Saturday.The price of gasoline will go up by 345 yuan (about 53.4 U.S. dollars) per tonne, while that of diesel will increase by 330 yuan, according to the National De...
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The Afghan Taliban announced on Saturday that a high-level delegation of its government met with a US delegation in the Qatari capital Doha, marking the first such gathering since the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in late August and the first foreign visit by the Taliban government officia...
Growth in the global manufacturing sector slowed for four straight months in September as the resurgence of COVID-19 and rising raw material prices weighed on the recovery, according to an industry report.The global manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) dropped by 0.1 percentage points ...
The Chinese economy is facing multiple challenges including high commodity prices and sporadic COVID-19 cases, with the latest data pointing to slowing consumption growth and contracting factory activity.A closer look at the economic landscape, however, shows that the resilience and vitality of...
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Seventy-eight countries, including China, called on Thursday for speeding up the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) and putting an end to discrimination, racism, and xenophobia.The countries expressed deep alarm at racial discrimination, social prejudice, police ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to implement the strategy on developing a quality workforce in the new era and to accelerate the work to build China into a major world center of professional talent and innovation.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Cent...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has nominated Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, for the speaker of the new convocation of the State Duma, TASS news agency reported Saturday.At a meeting with leaders of the parties that were elected to the lower ...
C hinese stock and bond markets continue to offer investment opportunities for international investors, an expert with a U.S. research firm told Xinhua recently.The MRB Partners on Thursday confirmed an overweight rating on Chinese stocks within an emerging market and global equity portfolio within ...
Over 1,600 firefighters are battling a new fast-moving wildfire that has grown to over 6,800 acres (around 27.5 square km) in northern California in the United States, authorities said Friday.A total of 1,663 firefighters have been assigned to battle the wildfire, dubbed Fawn Fire, said Captain Chri...
China's central bank will promote reform of the operation mode of its standing lending facility, as part of efforts to better meet reasonable liquidity needs.The reform, which is referred to as empowering the whole process with electronic technology, will improve efficiency and better stabilize ...
“Whether a system is democratic depends on whether it can represent the overall interests of the people and whether the people are satisfied. Democracy is not for embellishment; it should deliver," said Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang on Wednesday."At the center of d...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is on the edge of an abyss and moving in the wrong direction."I am here to sound the alarm: The world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss, and moving in the wrong direction," he told the General Assembly before the op...
In the first eight months of the year, the trade volume between China and the European Union (EU) increased by 32.4 percent year on year. The annual trade volume is likely to set a new record to exceed 700 billion U.S. dollars, an official with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said at the 16th...
BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has issued a RMB-denominated bond worth 2 billion yuan (310 million U.S. dollars) in China's interbank bond market, with a maturity of five years, bringing the total outstanding amount of RMB bonds issued by the bank to 17 billion yuan.The net proceeds from the b...
Voting of the 2021 Election Committee's subsector ordinary elections in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) ended at 6:00 pm local time on Sunday.This is the first election after the improvements to Hong Kong's electoral system earlier this year. According to ele...
Major global automakers and experts have called for more intensive cooperation in the field of new energy vehicles (NEVs) to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality.Speaking at the 3rd World New Energy Vehicle Congress (WNEVC), the international participants said since China is the biggest auto market...
The Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank), a state-owned policy bank, has issued bonds worth 3 billion yuan (about 465 million U.S. dollars) to international investors.The three-year bonds with a yield of 2.7455 percent were issued Wednesday and the money raised will be used to support the d...
Inclusive finance has seen rapid development over the past five years in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, benefiting numerous businesses and people on the plateau, according to an official.The region has mainly targeted small businesses, farmers, herders and urban low-income groups in ...
Phase I of Gas Natural Acu (GNA) Gas-fired Power Plant with investment from the Chinese State Power Investment Corporation Limited (SPIC) entered commercial operation Thursday.With an investment of 1 billion U.S. dollars and 1,338 megawatts of installed capacity, the project will be able to supply e...
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