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Pakistan, China vow to expedite economic corridor

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Pakistan and China vowed to expedite work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor during a meeting between Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi here on Friday. China has been a trustworthy friend of Pakistan, and friendship with China is the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy, […]

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 […]

Maritime Silk Road to boost regional prosperity: overseas experts

BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) — Overseas experts have made positive comments on China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative, saying it will promote the development of the countries along the route and boost regional prosperity. Professor James Peck from New York University told reporters that the strategic 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative will exert […]

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 […]

BNP calls another 72-hour strike

DHAKA, Feb. 14 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called another 72-hour nationwide strike form Sunday morning. BNP Spokesperson Salahuddin Ahmed made the announcement of latest strike through a press release on Saturday. Salauddin Ahmed, a BNP joint secretary general, said the 72-hour strike will start at 6:00 a.m. local time Sunday and will […]

Narendra Modi makes phone call to Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA, Feb. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Narendra Damodardas Modi has made a phone call to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Both Modi and Hasina talked over phone on Friday morning, sources. But the sources could not tell immediately what they discussed during the phone talks

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 […]

Myanmar fighting kills ‘dozens’ in recent days

Nay Pyi Taw, Feb. 13 (NsNewsWire) — Nearly 50 soldiers have been killed in three days of fighting between government troops and Kokang ethnic rebels in Myanmar, state media report. The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said airstrikes had been used in the response to the flare-up in Shan state, near the Chinese border, […]

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, […]