Botswana people will go to the polls on Oct. 24 in the country's 11th general elections, during which they will vote for 57 members of National Assembly (parliament) and 490 council members for local government.
Russia urged Thursday the Ukrainian parliamentary elections to be held on democratic principles, and called the international community to watch human rights situation in that country closely.
The China National Convention Center, a main venue for the upcoming APEC Economic Leaders' Week, installed 7,450 energy-saving LED lights as part of major rennovations before the international event.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday he is "cautiously optimistic" about the Ebola situation in the United States, as his government announced a new program that will actively monitor for 21 days every person coming from West African nations hard hit by the deadly virus.
Nearly 15,000 military personnel will be deployed around Brazil to ensure security during the Oct. 26 presidential runoff, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) said Tuesday.
BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- As China's ruling party pledges to advance the rule of law at a key meeting on this theme, government agencies and officials should be reminded that the law should regulate the entire society, rather than simply be a tool to justify their administration.
Considered by Danfoss, a world giant in green technology and business, as the "second home market, " China "is as much as home market" and will one day become the largest one for the company, Niels B. Christiansen, CEO of Danfoss, told Xinhua in an interview at the annual summit of the Global Green Growth Forum, which concluded in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
With the domestic football season winding down in Kenya, cut-throat competition for honors opened a Pandora's Box that led to two matches aborting last weekend in Nairobi.
Italy's 2015 budget, passed last week, puts the government on a collision course with the European Union how strictly the three-year-old terms of the Stability and Growth Pact will be interpreted.
Pakistan, Afghanistan trotting out roadmap for tension-free ties: adviser
The Silk Road International Film Festival opened here on Monday, aiming to promote cultural exchanges among countries along the proposed modernized version of the ancient trade route.
The Deutsche Bank AG (London) and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFG Ltd., has agreed to provide a credit facility of 162 million U.S. dollars to the Sri Lankan government, a statement said here on Monday.
The first group of people monitored for Ebola in the United States will clear the three-week observation period midnight Sunday, with none exhibiting symptoms, as the federal authorities and Pentagon are ratcheting up responses to fight the deadly disease.
The fourth plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee is set to open on Monday to discuss the rule of law, aiming to speed up the construction of governance by law from the top level and by improving the system to promote social justice of the country.
Low-end manufacturing is leaving China for cheaper labor in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, and this value chain shift will boost trade between China and ASEAN, according to economists.
A Syrian opposition figure said the U.S. coalition strikes against the Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria serves for the ultimate defragmentation of the war-torn country in the long run.
Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov on Wednesday has confirmed that the hi-tech Voronezh-DM radar system will begin military operations in Kaliningrad in December.
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