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After dehydration, desulfurization and decarbonization, freshly extracted gas from Central Asian countries merges into the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline, jointly operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation and local partners.Traversing wild deserts and grasslands, the natural gas ...
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Global sugar prices surged by nearly 10 percent in September to their highest level since 2010, pushed by decreased production from major suppliers and concerns about energy prices and the impacts of the El Nino weather phenomenon, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said....
The second Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit will be held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 8 in Hong Kong, with 300 leaders expected to attend, head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said on Friday.The HKMA Chief Executive Eddie Yue said this year's summit includes the main summit and ...
Hong Kong is the second most financially inclusive market out of 42 markets analyzed globally, rising two places year on year, according to a report released on Tuesday.Hong Kong remains one of the most financially included markets in the world, ranking in the top 10 for all three pillars of financi...
It used to take Rukhsana Parveen Khan 30 to 45 minutes to reach Banani from Farmgate of capital Dhaka. Today, the journey is a mere five minutes. "This is excellent," she told Xinhua. "I use this road daily and will benefit greatly from it."The road, Khan mentioned, is the First ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has kicked off its test runs of a self-driving bus, as Japan seeks driverless services and autonomous public transportation solutions. The self-driving bus, capable of cruising at speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour, was introduced on Monday as the tests sta...
In an automotive workshop spanning an area equivalent to 16 soccer fields in Hefei, a city in east China's Anhui Province, more than 800 robots are working collaboratively to assemble six different models of new energy vehicles (NEVs).This workshop is part of Volkswagen's new NEV production ...
Saudi Arabia announced Saturday its preliminary budget statement for 2024 with an expected 1.9 percent deficit of the GDP.The Saudi finance ministry projected total expenditures for fiscal 2024, which is identical to a calendar year in the kingdom, at 1,251 billion Saudi Riyals (about 333.5 billion ...
A vessel loaded with nickel matte docked at the Qinzhou Port in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at 10 a.m., and merely four hours later, the nickel product imported from Indonesia was delivered to a nearby factory's production line for further processing.Located in the Beibu G...
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UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis on Thursday urged the Afghan authorities to reconsider their decision to ban women and girls from proper education.Afghan women and girls, like men, have inalienable rights - human rights that must be upheld and honored, said Francis."So I would urge...
Three people were shot dead in a targeted attack in Atlanta, the southeastern U.S. state of Georgia, on Saturday afternoon, said local police. Officers responded to a call reporting that someone had been shot in the city's West End neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. (1730 GMT), the Associated Pr...
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UN peacekeeping operations are confronted with a multitude of challenges, with the most significant being the division among member states, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Friday."Peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenges of all is the division across o...
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday said that some 5.3 million have fled from the war in Sudan since mid-April when the conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)."With fight...
Following the EU's latest announcement to launch an anti-subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), experts warned against the consequences of imposing any measures and deemed cooperation the best solution.China believes that the investigation proposed by the EU is a practice of pure &q...
Xinhua, UNITED NATIONSUN peacekeeping operations are confronted with a multitude of challenges, with the most significant being the division among member states, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Friday."Peacekeeping operations are facing a number of challenges. The biggest challenges of all is...
A recent report estimated that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will help Bangladesh's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth by at least 2.1 percent, generate an additional 2.5 percent to 5.1 percent of employment, and decrease extreme poverty by 1.3 percent.The report, titled "The Bel...
One out of 10 people in Japan is now aged 80 or older, while the ratio of elderly to the total population rose to a record high, ministry data showed Sunday.Japan's elderly citizens, defined as those aged 65 and above, saw their percentage in the overall population at a historic high of 29.1 per...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Chinese mainland in actual use stood at 847.17 billion yuan (about 118 billion U.S. dollars) in the first eight months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.The figure decreased 5.1 percent from a year earlier, said the ministry. The decline was due...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel remains "difficult," and that any agreement between the two should address issues with Palestine. The secretary gave those remarks in response to a question from a press con...
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