Brunei-born entrepreneur Soon Loo joined the ranks of famed personalities such as Bill Clinton, John F Kennedy, Jackie Chan and Andy Lau when he received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) of the World award on October 8 this year.
Topping the agenda is how to comprehensively deepen reform in the world's second largest economy.Experts say China has undergone and is still undergoing tremendous changes. And those transformations are having an increasingly significant impact on the world.
An ongoing key meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is expected to unveil a new outline for comprehensively deepening reform in the country.
Since the incumbent Chinese leaders took office nearly a year ago, they been making reform moves. In December 2012, President Xi Jinping signalled his commitment to this drive by making his first inspection tour as new Party chief to Shenzhen, the forefront of China's reform and opening up, where he stressed that "reform will not come to a standstill nor will opening up come to a stop."
The six world powers negotiating with Iran would consider offering limited sanction relief if Iran takes concrete steps to halt its nuclear activities, the White House said Thursday.
The biggest world travel exhibition - the World Travel Market, opened on Monday in London.
Booming tourism is threatening world heritage sites in east Asian countries, including China, a UN expert told a forum in east China's Jiangxi Province on Friday.
The recent government shutdown and the debt ceiling deadlock have led to economic hardship across the United States, and the nation should avert another similar event that will impact the economic recovery, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Monday.
Consensus building, inter-civilization dialogue and peaceful coexistence are tools to build a harmonious world, a Chinese scholar told the opening plenary meeting of the 11th World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations" (Rhodes Forum) on Thursday on the Greek island of Rhodes.
Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, said the results are disappointing for his university and the Australian university sector in general.
About 68 percent of global businessmen from all over the world expressed their willingness to raise their investment in Asia-Pacific region next year, Chairman of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Wisnu Wardhana said in Bali on Wednesday.
Though facing a slowdown, China's overall economy is getting on the right track, said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.
The Australian National University (ANU) is ranked 27th in the world globally, and No. 1 in Australia, the university quoted Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2013/2014 which was released Tuesday morning as saying.
Hong Kong children are joining kids from all over the world to form a one-million-strong building team to raise fund through creative play in October when a fundraiser 2013 Global Cardboard Challenge will be held.
Russia cannot take the U.S. proof of chemical weapons use in Syria as they are far from convincing, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said here Thursday.
Since the beginning of this year, the new leadership has introduced significant policies designed to broaden the benefits of growth, China has embarked on reforms to achieve an inclusive economic growth in a changing world.
Russia and China are the main guarantors of international laws and norms, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
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