JapanandtheUnitedStatesarelikelytoholdtheirsecondeconomicdialogueonOct.16inWashington,asourcefamiliarwiththeissuetoldReutersonMonday.JapaneseDeputyPrimeMinister
The 8th US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED) starts on Monday and finishes on Tuesday in Beijing.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong met with Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on Thursday, pledging to strengthen cooperation in innovation.
China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) will hold the sixth high-level strategic dialogue between their foreign ministries in Beijing next month, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman announced Thursday.
Axel van Trotsenburg has been appointed the World Bank's new Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, effective on Feb. 1, the Washington-based agency said on Thursday.