China punishes 4,304 officials for viola...

BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) -- A total of 4,304 Chinese officials were punished in February for violating frugality rules. The officials were involved in 3,107 cases, said the Communist Party of China

France issues arrest warrants for two Ru...

France has issued arrest warrants for two former senior Russian athletics officials in an investigation into a doping cover-up, sources told AFP on Tuesday. The two men targeted are Valentin Balakhni

Nine Greek officials charged over 2017 d...

ATHENS, March 19 (Xinhua) -- An Athens prosecutor brought charges against nine officials over the flash floods of November 2017 in western Attica that caused 25 deaths, Greek national news agency AMN

Tanzanian PM orders senior gov't officia...

DAR ES SALAAM, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa on Monday ordered senior government officials to stop using journalists from private media houses in the official duties,

U.S. envoy to discuss Venezuela with Rus...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. envoy for Venezuela will meet with Russian officials on Venezuelan crisis, said the U.S. State Department on Saturday.Elliott Abrams, the U.S. Special Repres

China Focus: Decision to ease burdens ch...

BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese primary-level officials can expect fewer documents, shorter meetings and more time spent on practical work this year. A circular, recently released by the Genera

Economic officials on SOE reform, people...

Senior officials from China's top economic planner said that there are ways toexpand domestic demand to shore up growth in 2019, during a press conference onthe sidelines of the ongoing NPC session W

What are China's major risks and what sh...

I'm Robert Lawrence Kuhn and here's what I'm observing: Chinese President Xi Jinping's directive to leading officials to prevent and defuse major risks. The reason? No secrets here: To ensure sustain

U.S. imposes sanctions on 6 Venezuelan s...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday imposed sanctions on six Venezuelan security officials aligned with President Nicolas Maduro.According to a statement issued

Xi tells young officials to enhance theo...

President Xi Jinping on Friday said training and selecting outstanding young officials is vital to the fate of the Party, state and Chinese nation, and to the people's wellbeing, calling it an import