ASEAN leaders have agreed to tackle non-tariff barriers in order to further boost free movement of goods and services, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said here on Monday.
The ASEAN Summit this year will focus on the priority measures and initiatives for the realization of ASEAN Community in 2015 and will ensure the integration process to continue progressively beyond 2015, ASEAN Secretariat said on Monday.
The Rio 2016 Paralympic torch relay will take place in all five regions of Brazil over seven days, organizers announced on Monday.
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter will pay a visit to the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a bid to end an internal Palestinian division, a senior Hamas official said Sunday.
China is becoming the most favorite country for world top clubs and stars to visit with the country's economy expanding and sports fans spiralling.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's speech at an Asian-African summit Wednesday will help carry forward the Bandung Spirit and promote cooperation between the two continents, overseas experts and scholars said.
The South Korean government made a final decision Wednesday to salvage the Sewol ferry from the waters off Jindo Island in the country's southwest coast, with field works slated to kick off as early as in September.
Delegates from 109 Asian and African countries will discuss new opportunity on pragmatic economic and trade cooperation while commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Bandung conference.
The building of the world's first commercial fourth-generation nuclear power plant may start in east China's Jiangxi Province in 2017, if a plan to the effect is approved by the government, sources said.
China is confident the nation's "rice bowl" will be firmly held in its own hands, an industry report said on Monday.
The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project has attracted much interest from countries with the HSR technology, and Chinese companies are welcomed to continue to engage with both Malaysia and Singapore and participate in the tender later, a senior Malaysian official told Xinhua in a recent interview.
The Chinese central bank's decision to cut banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) will be good for growth, reduce financing costs, and aid the real economy, analysts believe.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Pakistan on Monday and Tuesday, which will be his first trip to the South Asian country since he assumed the presidency in 2013 and will bring new development opportunities for the bilateral traditional friendship.
As representatives of the 57 founding countries gather later this month to prepare for the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a former World Bank official suggested that the new institution could draw three important lessons from the operational experiences of multilateral development banks over the last five decades to become more successful.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan and attend meetings in Indonesia next week, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Friday morning.
Part of a full-size replica of the Old Summer Palace is about to open to tourists in east China's Zhejiang Province, some 1,000 kilometers from the real Beijing landmark.
Thousands of protesters in favor and against a three-year gold mine investment in northern Greece took to the streets here on Thursday, staging two separate rallies which disrupted traffic for hours in the city center.
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