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The GDP growth rate of Sri Lanka for the year 2023 was estimated as a 2.3 percent negative growth rate, the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) said in a statement on Friday. Overall, agricultural activities expanded by 2.6 percent, while industrial and service activities contracted by 9....
Personal remittances from overseas Filipinos reached 3.15 billion U.S. dollars in January, recording a year-on-year 2.7 percent increase, the Philippine central bank has said.The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Friday night that cash remittances from the United States, Saudi Arabia, the Un...
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Israel received Hamas's response to a new ceasefire deal proposal from Qatari mediators on Thursday, an Israeli official confirmed to Xinhua.David Barnea, chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, received the written response from Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bi...
Vietnam's gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to reach about 469.7 billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2024, ranking the fifth in Southeast Asia, Vietnam News reported Thursday, citing the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines have taken the le...
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for ceasefires in Gaza and Sudan during the holy month of Ramadan.As Monday marks the start of the holy month of Ramadan, it is a period when Muslims around the world celebrate and spread the values of peace, reconciliation and solidarity. Yet t...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday that women should not settle for current achievements but continue to strive for additional rights.“I always say the same thing: never settle for what you have already achieved. It is good to recognize what you have achieved, but it is ...
Since the end of the Spring Festival holiday, Shen Yafeng, operation manager at Thermofin Heat Exchanger (Pinghu) Co., Ltd., has been busy overseeing the construction of the company's two new plants.Upon completion, the company's production area is expected to quadruple, enabling it to effic...
As the Year of the Dragon began, a wave of business rejuvenation swept across China. To gauge the economic pulse, I explored various companies in Guangdong, renowned as the foreign trade hub, engaging in conversations over tea with business personnel to understand the recent developments and as...
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Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei and Malaysian leading Edotco have teamed up to launch the first-ever fiberglass tower solutions for mobile network operators in Bangladesh.The telecom vendors made the announcement in a joint statement, saying that they have teamed up to introduce an advanced e...
The legacy of nuclear testing is a global issue with far-reaching human rights implications, a group of United Nations (UN) experts said Monday.In a statement issued ahead of the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation due on March 5, the experts underlined that nuclear testing has n...
The death toll from freezing weather and snowfall in the chilly winter has reached 39 in Afghanistan as spell cold continues in parts of the country, spokesman for national disaster authority Mullah Janan Saeq said Sunday. "About 39 persons of our countrymen have been martyred and 30...
With the recent boom in China performance market, it has become increasingly common to see people traveling long distances to see shows, dragging their suitcases from city to city.Xiang Xinya, in her 20s, has just made the two-day trip from southwest China city of Chengdu to the southern city ...
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud announced Sunday that a significant additional amount of gas and condensate reserves have been proven in the Jafurah field operated by the Saudi state oil company Aramco. The additional proven reserves include around 15 trillion standard...
U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil plans to invest 10 billion yuan (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars) in its Huizhou ethylene project in south China's Guangdong Province this year.Addressing the Guangdong Provincial High-quality Development Conference in Shenzhen on Sunday, Jean-Marc Taton, chairma...
The Mymensingh district in north-central Bangladesh has a diverse landscape of valleys and hilly terrains. With its height of 19 meters above sea, the district is the highest place of all major cities in the delta country.Due to its elevation, the district enjoys better sunshine than any other place...
Three people including a policeman were killed when some unknown miscreants opened fire at their vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday night, police sources said.The incident happened in Malakand district of the province where the cop, who was a member of ...
The sales of new energy passenger cars in China accounted for nearly two-thirds of the world's total last year, industrial data showed.Some 8.87 million units of such vehicles were sold in the Chinese market in 2023, up 37 percent from a year ago and making up 63.5 percent of the global sales, C...
World major brands have expressed optimism about the potential of the Chinese market, as China's economy continues to grow, beating expectations, and their sales in China significantly increase.Germany's direct investment in China achieved a record high last year, according to a study by the...
The number of internet subscribers reached 131 million at the end of December, 2023, including nearly 7 million new users in the last year, showed the recently released data by the country's telecom regulator. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) data showed that of the ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Saturday that his country did not want to see an expansion of the war in the region, Lebanese TV channel al-Manar reported. "Iran and Lebanon confirm that the war is not the solution, and we never want to expand the scope of the war...
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