Asean will be more competitive once the Asean Economic Community (AEC) is a reality, going by a new regionwide poll.
Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Sunday announced the end of the latest peace talks on Yemen, saying that the parties agreed on framework for the negotiations and will meet again on Jan. 14, 2016 for a new round of talks.
Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar made it clear on Sunday that the Islamabad-incumbent government had no plan to privatize the state-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).
A project of railway cooperation between Thailand and China was officially launched on Saturday, marking an important milestone in both bilateral cooperation and the Thai government's pursuit of better infrastructure connectivity and resulting greater global competitiveness.
China's free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Australia took effect Sunday, saving billions in tariffs for companies from the countries.
China's free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea and Australia officially came into force on Sunday, marking a tremendous boon for the three countries.
Myanmar businessmen will participate in International Jewelry, Jade and Wood Craft Exhibition 2016 to be held in China's Macao, military-run Myawaddy Daily said Friday.
It was once a proud industry employing more than 1.2 million people in hundreds of coal mines across Britain.
The much heralded and anticipated interest rate increase by the U.S. Federal Reserve for the first time in nearly 10 years materialized on Wednesday. In electronic trading following the release of the Fed's statement, gold prices fell from the settlement.
Chinese IT companies are acting to defend their country against cyber attack risks, which are increasingly a threat to national security.
Some parts of north China will see the worst smog so far this year from Saturday, the official forecaster said on Thursday.Beijing has issued its second red alert for air pollution this month as a new bout of smog is forecast to hit the capital from Saturday to Tuesday.
The story of Ali Baba is well known. The Arabian fable tells of a woodcutter who discovers the password, "open sesame", to a treasure cave containing the loot of a band of thieves. They plot to kill him but Ali Baba, with his resourceful slave girl, wins the day by pouring boiling oil over them instead.
The Federal Reserve's policymakers met for the final time this year on Wednesday (Dec 16) and announced the first US interest rate hike since June 2006, and seven years after it pushed its benchmark lending rate to zero to battle the global financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed.
China on Thursday sent into space the country's first space telescope in a fresh search for smoking-gun signals of dark matter, invisible material that scientists say makes up most of the universe's mass.
Construction began Wednesday on a technology institute cooperation between a Chinese and an Israeli university in south China.
The Lao government will start registering and issuing temporary work permits for foreigners across the country from Wednesday to March 16, 2016 with the expectation of having at least 30,000 foreigners enter the registration process.
The Dawei special economic zone project in Myanmar is now planned to be 10 times larger than earlier designed, said a high-level Thai official on Tuesday.
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