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China to ensure steady economic growth in 2015

BEIJING, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Maintaining economic growth is the major task of China’s macroeconomic policies, an official said Friday. Zhu Zhixin, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a news briefing that China was still confronted with increasing difficulties and risks as the global economy was till reeling after the financial […]

Three rescued, 22 missing after boat sinks in China’s Yangtze River

NANJING, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Rescuers have saved three people after a tug boat sank on the Yangtze River in east China’s Jiangsu Province on Thursday, said local rescue headquarters. Twenty-five people aboard the boat fell into the water, including eight foreigners — four Singaporeans, an Indonesian, a Malaysian, an Indian and a Japanese national […]

SA apparel accessories maker ITL inks JV in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Global supplier of apparel labeling solutions ITL Group (ITL) said it has inked a joint venture with Codes and Labels Ltd, a privately owned Bangladesh supplier of labels, packaging and trims. Under the terms of the agreement, the Codes and Labels operations will be absorbed into the newly established, ITL […]

Bangladesh: UN rights office alarmed at ‘deepening, disturbing’ political violence

New York, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — The United Nations human rights office has expressed concern over the rising levels of political violence rippling across Bangladesh amid fears of a return to a state of destructive brinkmanship seen in the run up to the country’s 2014 elections. “The deepening political violence in Bangladesh, resulting from the […]

China attracts more attention due to growing weight in global matters: Schwab

GENEVA, Jan. 16 (NsNewsWire) — Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has said that China is attracting more and more global attention given its growing weight in global matters and reaffirmed his optimistic expectations on China’s economy. Schwab made the remarks in a written interview with Xinhua in advance […]

Armed man takes two hostages in west Paris

Sentence of Saudi Human Rights Lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair

Syrian troops kill 40 rebels in clashes in southern province

DAMASCUS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — A total of 40 opposition militants were killed Wednesday during clashes with the Syrian troops in a southern contested town, the state news agency SANA reported. 15 militants of “takfiri and terrorist groups” were killed when the Syrian troops targeted their positions in the strategic town of Sheikh Miskin in […]

Moscow warns against use of force in eastern Ukraine

MOSCOW, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Russia warned Kiev authorities against attempts to revert to use of force to resolve the Ukraine crisis, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday. “We are very worried …that the ceasefire regime, which seems to have just started to be established, is being violated. Shellings occurred regularly and widely in the […]