Representatives from Iran and P5+1 world powers are due to resume their nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland later on this Thursday. The last-ditch talks come just days ahead of an end-of-month deadline to reach a framework deal. Negotiations were...
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states launched airstrikes Wednesday against Shi'ite Houthi rebels in Yemen in response to a request from internationally backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The bombings continued into Thursday, with officials saying...
U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the 9,800 American troops stationed in Afghanistan would remain there until the end of the year, despite earlier plans to cut them by half. Afghanistan remains a very dangerous place, Obama said at a news...
A senior Chinese official is calling on the US government to join the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank. Zhang Jun is in-charge of China's international economic portfolio. His comments have come on the heels of suggestions by US authorities that t...
Chinese machinery producer Zoomlion has purchased a rice field in Hunan to launch its mechanical farming project. Zoomlion officials have suggested they feel the agricultural sector is a new area of potential. The company signed a deal last year for...
Small and micro-sized companies in China are seeing their corporate income tax cut by half. Chinese tax authorities have announced companies with annual incomes of less than 200-thousand yuan are going to see their rates cut down to 10-percent. The t...
TORONTO, March 23 (Xinhua) -- The renminbi (RMB) clearing bank in Canada, ICBC Canada, was officially launched here on Monday evening. This is the first RMB trading hub in North America and in the western hemisphere. The hub is the latest step in a C...
The IOC Evaluation team is due to inspect a number of areas in and around Beijing, including Yanqing District in the northwest of the city. The IOC team is also due to travel to Zhangjiakou in Hebei. The commission is tasked with conducting on-site e...
Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91. The city-state's prime minister for 31 years, he was widely respected as the architect of Singapore's prosperity. 李光耀...
But first, the organisers of the London Marathon have confirmed that the race will definitely take place in the British capital this weekend despite the deaths of three people following explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Security for the ev...
But first, can China pull North Korea back from the brink? The North's ruling Worker's Party newspaper said today that the outbreak of nuclear war had now become a fait accompli, owing to the US and the South Korean puppet forces. It's more of a bomb...
LONDON U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Iran to make difficult decisions now to enable agreement on the future of its nuclear program by the deadline at the end of this month. He told reporters in Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday that impo...
CAIROGunmen opened fire at one of the Tunisian capital's top tourism sites on Wednesday in an attack that left at least 22 people dead, mainly foreign visitors. Prime Minster Habib Essid said two armed assailants wearing military-style uniforms hunte...
In cricket, South Africa has cruised into the semi-finals after a crushing victory over Sri-Lanka. The South African side dismissed Sri Lanka for 133 and then took just 18 overs to knock off the runs for the loss of one wicket. AB De Villiers lauded...
China's financial regulators are working on new rules connected to this country's peer-to-peer lending industry. The China Banking Regulatory Commission is planning to require lenders to have at least 30-million yuan in assets as one of the requireme...
