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At least 57 people were killed and 7,683 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.According to a report released by the NDMA on Friday evening, at least 17 children and 18 women were among tho...
Business & Commerce
The Chinese government's recent proposal of follow-up policies to boost the economy has attracted worldwide attention, with foreign media, experts and businesses expecting continuous growth in China.The State Council of China on Aug. 24 announced 19 follow-up policies to shape greater synergy am...
The 2022 World Advanced Manufacturing Conference opened in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, on Wednesday, focusing on deepening international and domestic cooperation, as well as improving industrial and supply chains.The three-day conference, co-hosted by the Ministry of Indust...
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Most U.S. adults believe gun violence is increasing nationwide and want to see gun laws made stricter, The Associated Press (AP) has reported, citing a new poll.The poll by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows...
In early 1990s, Principal Financial Group (PFG), an American global financial investment management and insurance company, set up its representative office in Beijing, together with many other international financial institutions drawn to China in search of business opportunities.Since then, PFG has...
Featuring cutting-edge technologies including big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G communications, the digital economy has become increasingly critical as a key factor for economic growth in the digital era.From Monday to Wednesday, international organizations, industry representatives, exp...
The People's Bank of China said Friday that two foreign lenders have been added to the list of financial institutions that can provide firms with low-cost loans through a supporting tool for carbon emission reduction.Deutsche Bank (China) Co., Ltd. and Societe Generale (China) Ltd. are the two b...
Global home furnishing giant IKEA said it is committed to long-term development in China and will further increase investment in the Chinese market in the new fiscal year.Ingka Group, the parent group of IKEA, will invest 5.3 billion yuan (about 773.32 million U.S. dollars) in China in the fiscal ye...
Kuwait has said that it will increase oil production to 2.811 million barrels per day to ensure safe and stable supplies amid rising global demand. In a statement cited by Kuwait News Agency, Deputy Prime Minister and Oil Minister Mohammad Al-Fares said on Wednesday that the rise is in line wit...
China will cut the retail prices of gasoline and diesel on Wednesday, the country's top economic planner announced on Tuesday.The price of gasoline will drop by 205 yuan (about 29.92 U.S. dollars) per tonne and diesel by 200 yuan per tonne, according to the National Development and Reform Commis...
When winds ripple the lush wheat farm stretching around 300 hectares in northwestern Zimbabwe in August, it is hard to believe that this fertile farmland was barren a decade ago.The African country had undergone years of economic recession and a sharp decline in grain output back then, with vast far...
A recession for the United States will be "long" and "severe," and could bring financial distress "across the board," Bloomberg on Monday cited Nouriel Roubini, an economist known for his bearish tendencies."We are in a sharp slowdown. We've had two negative qu...
China's largest oil refiner Sinopec has acquired crude oil and natural gas from a newly-drilled oil reserve about 8,000 meters deep in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.The high-yield reserve in Sinopec's Shunbei oil and gas field is estimated to be capable of producing 244...
China on Wednesday sent 16 new satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi.The satellites, including a Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D09 satellite and Yunyao-1 04-08 satellites, were launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 12:50 p.m. Beijing Time and ent...
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Eating salt substitutes could lower the risks of early death from cardiovascular diseases, according to a new study by an international research team including Australian and Chinese experts.Bruce Neal, executive director of the George Institute for Global Health and Professor of Medicine at the Uni...
World food prices declined dramatically in July, according to the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).A deal to allow grain shipments from Ukraine and adjustments to the global supply chain helped relieve some price pressure, said the FAO.The monthly index of food commo...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to strengthen bilateral relations during their talks in Russia's Sochi on Friday.Putin and Erdogan pledged to increase bilateral trade volume on a balanced basis and to meet each other's expectations in the ec...
A surprisingly robust jobs report calls into question whether the United States is in a recession, amid some economists' gloom-and-doom predictions of a downturn.U.S. employers added a whopping 528,000 jobs in July, according to Friday's Labor Department report, which showed that the labor m...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed the hope that the Summit of the Future scheduled for the General Assembly high-level week in September will produce a Pact for the Future.The summit is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvigorate global action, recommit to fundamenta...
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