Chinese State Councilor Yang Jing on Saturday stressed the importance of implementation of government policies, saying inspection teams from the the State Council, China's cabinet, will be dispatched nationwide to check the implementation in a serious manner.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore will introduce a facility to provide up to 5 billion renminbi (805 million U.S. dollars) in overnight liquidity to financial institutions in Singapore, it said on Friday.
New Zealand and the United States on Thursday signed a controversial agreement aimed at fighting tax evasion, but critics fear it could undermine the rights of New Zealand taxpayers.
China's taxation authorities announced on Wednesday that buyers of distributed photovoltaic (PV) power should invoice for purchases, a move to reduce the tax burden on PV power producers and promote green energy.
China will attach greater importance to targeted control measures to keep economic growth in a proper range, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) approved 10 initial public offering (IPO) applications on Monday, marking the official restart of IPOs since mid-February.
China's central bank announced on Monday that it will cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) by 0.5 percentage points for banks engaged in proportionate lending to agricultural and small firms.
South Korea's top nuclear envoy will visit China for two days from Tuesday to meet his Chinese counterpart for talks on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear weapons program
Japan and Australia will hold their "two-plus-two" meeting Wednesday with an eye on enhancing bilateral defense cooperation.
The ferry sinking disaster will have a transitory effect on South Korean economy, which is gaining momentum in the longer term, the global credit rating company Moody's said Monday.
Greece's conservative-led two partite coalition government leaders proceeded with a sweeping cabinet reshuffle on Monday aimed to breathe new life into the two-year alliance and efforts to exit an acute four-year debt crisis which brought the country at the brink of default.
A senior Afghan official on Monday called on the country's new administration led by the new president to be chosen in the June 14 run-off election to seize the country's advantages to boost socioeconomic development.
Thai army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan- ocha has asked demonstrators not to make a "three-finger" sign in public in protest of last month's coup, warning such gesture is against the martial rule.
Egypt's former army chief Abdel- Fattah al-Sisi, who was sworn in as new president on Sunday, said there is no reconciliation with anyone who "committed crimes or inciting violence" against Egyptians.
British Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday embarked on a three-day state visit to France to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Normandy landings during WWII, Buckingham Palace has announced.
Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are ready for settlements in ruble in bilateral trade, a Russian minister said Thursday.
Somerhalder was designated as a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Goodwill Ambassador Thursday, also the World Environment Day, in Bridgetown, the capital of the small island nation of Barbados.
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