HANOI, July 13 (Xinhua) — Some rare artworks, star rubies and antiques, including a 2,000-year-old bronze vase, will be auctioned here on Aug. 19, a Vietnamese auction house told Xinhua on Thursday. The intact bronze vase is 53.3 cm in height and decorated with embossed dots like toad skin, the No.5 Auction Company said, noting […]

LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) — British Prime Minister Theresa May in a speech on Tuesday urged rival political parties to participate rather than just criticize her government. A year since she set out her vision on the steps of 10 Downing Street after becoming prime minister, May now leads a minority government, shored up by […]

PYONGYANG, July 11 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday accused the United States and South Korea of intensifying war preparations after it launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) earlier this month. “It was reported that the U.S. Department of Defense, much scared by the DPRK’s success of test-launch of ICBM Hwasong-14 […]

KUWAIT, July 11 (Xinhua) — Kuwait, the U.S. and Britain have called for “a rapid end” to the crisis between Qatar and its Arab neighbors through dialogue, the official KUNA news agency reported Tuesday. The call was issued at a meeting held late Monday by Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah with visiting […]

KABUL, July 11 (Xinhua) — Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday once again called upon Taliban militants to give up fighting and join the peace process. “The time is running out and Taliban would lose the chance for talks,” the president said at a press conference here in Presidential Palace, adding the Taliban does […]

DHAKA, July 11 (NsNewsWire) — Samsung Electronics announced recently that the Galaxy S8 and S8+ earned ‘Best Smartphone’ honors at the 2017 Asia Mobile Awards (‘the AMOs’), held each year to recognize game-changing mobile innovations at Asia’s largest mobile event, Mobile World Congress Shanghai. Organized in coordination with the GSMA, this year’s MWC Shanghai ran […]

DUBAI, July 5 (Xinhua) — The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt announced on Wednesday their receipt of the Qatari response to their list of demands, according to a joint statement issued by the four countries. “The four countries received the Qatari response through Kuwait before the end of the additional deadline, which came at […]

ISTANBUL, July 5 (Xinhua) — Following Turkey’s deployment of troops around the Kurdish-held Afrin Canton in northwestern Syria, many feel a Turkish military operation is imminent, a sense augmented by reported withdrawal of most Russian troops from the canton. Turkey has substantially increased the presence of its troops, tanks and artillery units around Afrin over […]