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Premier Li urges more financial support for industrial upgrades

Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday called for more financial support for industrial upgrades as the country strives to restructure its economy.

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Spring Festival travel made easier for motorcyclists

For migrant worker Huang Zilie, this year's travel back home for the Spring Festival holiday will be different.

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AIIB chief rules out China veto power

China has no intention of exercising its veto power over the newly established 57-member Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, according to the lender's president.

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Up to 860 postal workers to be laid off in Finland

The Finnish postal and logistic service provider Posti Group announced on Tuesday that it will launce cooperation negotiations, in which up to 860 employees will be laid off.

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Beijing to renew growth through supply-side reform

Beijing is exploring ways to improve the quality of the city's goods and services, as part of nationwide supply-side structural reform.

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Coca-Cola to enter dairy drinks segment in India

Beverages major Coca-Cola on Monday announced its foray into value-added dairy drinks segment in the Indian market with Vio brand, which will make its debut across the country next month.

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Fund to help those made redundant by overcapacity cut

China will raise funds to help workers reestablish themselves should they lose their jobs when coal and steel firms close amid campaigns to cut overcapacity.

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A bright, clear dawn for China's Middle East policy

President Xi Jinping's recent visit to the Middle East could signal the beginning of a new era in relations between China and countries in the region.

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59-year freeze-out hits Hong Kong, schools closed

All kindergartens, primary schools and special schools are suspended today amid the big freeze, with about 510,000 children given an unprecedented cold- day leave.

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Singapore's political system: Tweak, tinker or overhaul?

Singapore's political system must be refreshed from time to time as circumstances change, President Tony Tan Keng Yam said on Jan 15 as he announced that the Government will study it for possible reforms.

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Greek PM marks first anniversary in office, pledging return to growth in 2016

A year ago on the Jan. 25 national elections in Greece, the Radical Left SYRIZA party achieved a historic victory assuming office for first time in the country's modern history with the promise to end austerity and bailouts.

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China to cut crude steel production capacity by 150 mln tonnes: premier

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has reiterated the urgency and the government's resolve to cut excess capacity in steel and coal industries, as the country strives to restructure its economy.

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Indonesia, China's cooperation sees Southeast Asia's 1st HSR project commence

Indonesia has officially started its high-speed railway project (HRP) to link the nation's capital city of Jakarta with the West Java provincial capital of Bandung.

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Is Abe's elusive economic holy grail being offered up again as a smokescreen

Since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's second term in office his cabinet has been plagued by funding scandals that have seen various ministers resign, with the latest this week involving his economics minister facing allegations he received bribes from a construction company.

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S.Korea to pressure, sanction DPRK to make it give up nuclear program

South Korea vowed Friday to pressure and sanction the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to make it give up its nuclear ambitions after Pyongyang's nuclear test earlier this month.

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Abe seeks votes from lower income class in policy speech

​Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to gain more votes from lower income class for the upcoming upper house election by vowing to address wage gaps in his policy speech on Friday.

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Chinese president offers remedies for Mideast predicaments

​Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday prescribed his remedies to restore peace in the Middle East and promote development in the Arab world.