Beijing to close roads, metro stations for night parade rehearsal

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Beijing will shut down roads and close metro stations for night rehearsals of a parade to mark the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, schedule on Sept. 3. According to the Beijing police, the rehearsals will be held from 10:30 p.m. Aug.13 […]

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Bangladesh team visits KILA

A team of high-level officials from Bangladesh has arrived at the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) to learn about democratic decentralisation and child-friendly panchayats. Representatives of the UNICEF from Bangladesh are also accompanying them. The 40-member team is here to evolve a development strategy for the backward local body institutions of 20 districts in […]

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Google restructures, being part of Alphabet

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 (NsNewsWire) — Google announced Monday restructuring its operations by creating a publicly traded parent company known as Alphabet Inc. “Our company is operating well today,” Google co-founder Larry Page wrote in a letter included in a regulatory filing, “but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable.” Alphabet, designed […]

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Wang Yi on the South China Sea Issue At the ASEAN Regional Forum

DHAKA, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has made an impromptu response by comprehensively elaborating Beijing’s position and refuting the groundless accusations from the Philippines and Japan. He made the response on  Aug. 6 during the foreign ministers’ meetings of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), where the […]

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“Overwater highway” seen in Hubei

Vehicles run on an “overwater highway,” a highway linking Gufu Township and Zhaojun Bridge in Yichang City, central China’s Hubei Province, Aug. 9, 2015. The highway, which is 10.9 kilometers long, is built overwater on a river. (Xinhua/Zou Yuanjing)

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China to issue new 100-yuan bank note

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (NsNewsWire) — The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, announced it would issue a new 100-yuan bank note from Nov. 12 on Monday. The new bank note will be harder to counterfeit and easier for machines to read. Part of the fifth set of bank notes introduced by the PBOC […]

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China, U.S. to exchange officials for Xi’s visit

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — China and the United States will send senior officials to each other’s country in preparation for the state visit to the United States by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September. Several senior U.S. officials will visit China in August and September, based on a consensus reached by the two sides, […]

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