By Li Ruohan in Qingdao Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/10 23:08:43 The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will expand international interactions and cooperation as nations face common threats and challenges, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Sunday. SCO members will uphold the authority and efficacy of WTO rules, strengthen an open, inclusive, transparent, non-discriminatory and rules-based multilateral trading […]

DHAKA, June 10 (NsNewsWire) –WASH4UrbanPoor, a five-year project aiming to serve over 450,000 urban poor with water, sanitation and hygiene was launched today by WaterAid and the Embassy of Sweden. The project, which will work to provide basic water, sanitation and hygiene support to the millions who reside in slums and low-income urban communities across […]

by Xinhua writer Zheng Kailun CAIRO/BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) — On a day in September 1987 in Beijing, Arafat Harahsheh spotted legions of commuters’ bicycles on the streets of the Chinese capital. He thought the Chinese were holding a sports event. “It must be some bicycle marathon going on,” the Jordanian student thought. He had […]

More than 140 alleged drug dealers have been killed and 18,000 people arrested in just three weeks in Bangladesh, in a crime crackdown that has sparked condemnation from the United Nations, reports abcnews. Key points: The 140 killed were drug dealers who died in shootouts with police or rival gangs, the government says The snap […]

The presidents of China, Russia and Mongolia pledged to strengthen trilateral cooperation during their meeting here on Saturday, reports Xinhua. The trilateral meeting, the fourth of its kind, was chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping and attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga. They reviewed the achievements of trilateral cooperation and […]

Source:Global Times Published: 2018/6/9 18:18:19 The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit is being held in Qingdao, Shandong Province through Sunday. With a total of 18 countries including observers and dialogue partners in attendance, the summit is the largest ever since the founding of the organization. With India and Pakistan are participating for the first time […]

DHAKA, June 9 (NsNewsWire) — On May 28, the Government of Japan allocated two hundred million Japanese Yen (approximately 1.78 million US dollar) to UNHCR for its programme to support the displaced Myanmar residents in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, who were affected by the destabilized situation in the northern part of Rakhine State, in […]