UN says Denmark increases contribution t...
BAGHDAD, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Tuesday said Denmark has offered an additional contribution of about 11 million U.S. dollars to help the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) to demine a
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UN says Denmark increases contribution t...
BAGHDAD, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Tuesday said Denmark has offered an additional contribution of about 11 million U.S. dollars to help the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) to demine a
2 terrorists killed in E Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Saudi police killed two terrorists and arrested two others during an attempt to evade a security checkpoint in Eastern Province, Al Arabiya TV reported on Sunday. The four
Death toll in Yemen's Sanaa explosion ri...
SANAA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Sunday's explosion in a warehouse in Yemen's capital Sanaa has increased to 15, including seven schoolgirls, while more than 100 others mostly female st
Finns see title of "happiest nation" as ...
HELSINKI, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The emergence of Finland for the second time as the "happiest country in the world" in a UN commissioned survey was not met with surprise in Finland. In random intervie
Questions linger over China-U.S. trade d...
The optics are good. Days before the March 1 deadline, progress was made towards a China-U.S. trade deal. The presidents will meet in Mar-a-Lago next month to seal the deal. When the 90-day deadline
U.S. economy to slow down in next 2 year...
WASHINGTON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economic growth is expected to sharply slow down over the next two years, a survey by the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) showed Monday. Ac
U.S. military intensifies airstrikes in ...
MOGADISHU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The United States military said Thursday its forces have intensified airstrikes in Somalia to flush out terrorist group al-Shabab in the Horn of Africa nation. The U.S.
Taiwan issue brooks no foreign interfere...
BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The Taiwan issue is China's internal affairs that concerns China's core interest and Chinese people's national feelings and brooks no foreign interference, a spokesperso
Tech China Weekly: rocket engine, farmer...
BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key technology news from the past week: ROCKET ENGINE Chinese engineers have successfully carried out a compatibility test on
Norway's oil fund to invest more in rene...
OSLO, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The Norwegian government will double the framework for the oil fund's investments related to renewable energy, to the delight of the country's environmentalists, news agency
NBA highlights on Apr. 7: Nets, Magic bo...
The 14 games of the 2018-19 NBA regular season played on Sunday determined the fate of several teams. The Brooklyn Nets booked their seat in the playoffs after they defeated the Indiana Pacers 108-96
China Hushen 300 index futures close low...
BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- China's Hushen 300 index futures closed lower on Thursday, with the contract for March 2019 down 0.71 percent to finish at 3,699.00 points. The April 2019 contract lost
Key station's main structure completed o...
The main structure of Beijing Daxing International Airport Station has been recently completed. The 92.4-km-long intercity railway links Beijing and the new economic zone of Xiongan in north China's
S.Korea, U.S. begin scaled-back joint mi...
The combined forces of South Korea and the United States on Monday began a week-long joint military drill, called Dong Maeng that was scaled back compared with the previous springtime war games, Sout
Gold rebounds as dollar, equities fall o...
CHICAGO, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange jumped back on Friday as weak U.S. job data dragged down the dollar and equities. The most active g
Outgoing Finnish PM accuses social democ...
HELSINKI, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The political rift on whether it will be realistic for Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) widened on Tuesday. The outgoing Prime Minister Juha
Reporter's diary: Syria's Route Six
The first thing you notice is the "nodding donkeys." Hundreds of them line the vast green plains that stretch from the Tigris River on the border with Iraq, to Qamishili in far northeast Syria. They
China's central bank advocates stronger ...
The People's Bank of China has encouraged domestic financial institutions to beef up their support for industrial robot manufacturing by providing innovative financing, lease and pledge services. Eff
China Hushen 300 index futures close low...
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- China's Hushen 300 index futures closed lower on Friday, with the contract for April 2019 down 0.02 percent to finish at 3,843.40 points. The May 2019 contract lost 0.06
Translation of Tibetan folk epic almost ...
LHASA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Researchers in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region said Wednesday that they had completed over 80 percent of the Chinese translation of "The Epic of King Gesar," gene