UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Pyongyang next Monday and stay for around 4 days, the official KCNA news agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) told Xinhua on Wednesday.
China will continue to advance the work on a stock connect scheme between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong bourses, a securities regulator said Tuesday.
Chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Chui Sai On said on Tuesday the region is poised to continuously improve people's livelihood and speed up "appropriate diversification" of the local economy.
The fourth leaders' meeting of China and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries will be held in east China's Suzhou city from Nov.24 to 25, the first time for China to host the meeting.
French President Francois Hollande will meet his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama in Washington on Nov. 26, the presidential Elysee Palace says on Tuesday, adding he will also meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 26 in Moscow.
U.S. President Barack Obama will host French President Francois Hollande here next week to coordinate counterterrorism efforts, the White House said Tuesday.
China's outbound investment strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative will help stimulate the global economic growth, matching the key objectives of the Group of Twenty (G20) Turkey summit on Nov. 15-16, U.S experts said.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) that is scheduled to start operations in January is expected to fund its first batch of projects in as early as the second quarter next year, fulfilling its commitment to supporting Asia's infrastructure development and connectivity.
Last week's terror attacks on Paris have pushed U.S. foreign policy and the fight against terrorism to the forefront of U.S. elections, and candidates will have to show they are tough on terror in the lead up to the 2016 presidential race.
As a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam will face both opportunities for growth and challenges when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is established by the yearend.
President Xi Jinping said Sunday that the Chinese economy is predicted to grow about 7 percent this year, which will continue to contribute as high as about one third to the global growth.
China's Belt and Road Initiative is expected to give a new impetus to the global economy by increasing investment, improving infrastructure and promoting economic integration and people-to-people exchanges among the countries it covers, Israeli experts told Xinhua in recent interviews.
China will strengthen its efforts to shore up consumption and boost domestic demand amid lingering downward pressure on the economy, according to a statement from a government meeting on Wednesday.
In recent years Vietnam has been speeding up international economic integration with the most recent milestone being the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is expected to bring both opportunities and challenges for the agricultural sector.
Myanmar's President Thein Sein, a former top army general who has steered the country through five years towards the free market and democratic reforms, has accepted an invitation to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi but only after the official results of the Nov 8 election are declared.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday that China is confident that Myanmar will continue its friendly diplomacy towards the country.
China's Five-Year Plan from 2016 to 2020, aiming at a more sustainable and balanced way of development, offers a model to be widely discussed by world economists.
简体中文
