China’s pollution control not enough: vice minister

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (NsNewsWire) — China’s emission cuts are not enough to help improve the environment, vice environment minister Zhai Qing said on Friday. Speaking to reporters at a regular press briefing a few days ahead of Spring Festival when air quality is expected to plummet due to fireworks, Zhai said pollution reduction had made […]

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Xi’s New Year visit marks village homecoming

YAN’AN, Shaanxi, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — At the entrance to a village in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, the man villagers had been waiting for finally arrived. They were excited and called him by his first name: Jinping. Forty-seven years ago, a teen Xi Jinping came to Liangjiahe as part of a campaign launched by Chairman […]

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Funeral for Muslims Killed in Chapel Hill Draws Thousands

RALEIGH, N.C. , Feb.13 (NsNewsWire) —  The three friends drove here Thursday from Blacksburg, Va., 190 miles to the north. Dressed in hijab and fashionable dresses, carrying a fabric floral arrangement in a gold-colored pot, they came for the funeral of the three Arab-American students who were gunned down at their home a couple of […]

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Maritime Silk Road initiative to reduce friction, catalyze common prosperity

by Xinhua Writer Wang Haiqing Even a not-so-close scrutiny of the maritime Silk Road proposed by China will allow the observer to know that the route passes large areas in the South China Sea. With China laying bear its concepts and intentions of win-win development, common prosperity and cultural inclusiveness in initiating such a route, […]

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Bangladesh on the Brink

By The New York Times EDITORIAL BOARD Bangladesh is on the edge of political chaos, and the intransigence of both the ruling Awami League and the opposition Bangladesh National Party is to blame. Unless both parties take immediate steps to pull back from entrenched positions, restrain the violent elements of their activist bases and embark […]

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UN Concerned Over Bangadesh Violence

New York, Feb. 12 (NsNewsWire) — Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, has said the Secretary‑General is personally committed to the stability and positive development of Bangladesh. “Bangladesh, as you know, is a critical partner of the United Nations in many areas. And obviously, I think, as we’ve said here a […]

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Smoking in cars to become illegal in England

LONDON, Feb. 12 (NsNewsWire) — British parliament Wednesday approved regulations which will make smoking in cars become illegal when carrying children, the Department of Health said. The Department of Health said the new rules are expected to come into force on Oct. 1 and people who violates those rules will be fined 50 pounds (about […]

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Xi to pay first state visit to U.S.

BEIJING, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held phone talks with his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, and accepted the latter’s invitation to pay a state visit to the United States in September. The world’s two biggest economies have been building a new type of major-country relationship and have maintained good development […]

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