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GENEVA, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday revised upward its forecast for global trade growth in 2017 to 3.6 percent, from the previous estimate of 2.4 percent, citing a sharp acceleration in global trade growth in the first half of the year. According to WTO economists, stronger growth in 2017 […]
Read MoreLONDON, Sept.21 (Xinhua) — English premier league Manchester United (MUFC) announced record revenues and profits Thursday in the club’s latest set of annual figures. The club turnover was 784 million U.S. dollars with profits of 109 million U.S. dollars, accounts for the year ending June 2017 show. Both figures smash previous records which were set […]
Read MoreMADRID, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — Atletico Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano Stadium was on Wednesday named as the venue for the 2019 Champions League final by UEFA, the governing body of European football. The 68,000 capacity stadium, which hosted its first ever game last Saturday, was chosen over Baku, which will be the venue for the 2019 […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States would add more sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Before his meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York, Trump told reporters that his administration was […]
Read MoreBANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — British Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and Princess Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, will be representing Queen Elizabeth II at the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Brunei Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah’s Accession to the Throne, the British High Commission to Brunei announced. According to a press release obtained […]
Read MoreMANILA, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — The 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its dialogue partners China, Japan and South Korea on Thursday called for closer regional cooperation to combat terrorism and violent extremism. “(The ministers) were unanimous in acknowledging the threats of violent extremism, (that) this is a clear […]
Read MoreBERLIN, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — The European Union (EU) should reorient its external economic relations towards Asia in light of global challenges, a study by the German Bertelsmann Institute argues. The findings of the Guetersloh-based think tank will be presented by study author Dr. Cora Jungbluth at the international Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Seoul on […]
Read MoreSEOUL, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — A U.S.-based artillery unit was deployed to the Korean Peninsula to conduct a live-fire exercise in the western coast of South Korea with the Eighth U.S. Army stationed here, the Eighth U.S. Army said Thursday in a statement. The 18th Field Artillery Brigade, based in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, staged […]
Read MoreTOKYO, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) — The Japanese government and local authorities expressed their disappointment and insisted the U.S. military suspend a parachute drill conducted Thursday at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa amid safety concerns. The drill was described as “disappointing” by Japan’s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, who said he will implore the U.S. military to […]
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