Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed Tuesday a resolution creating a special economic zone in the southwest region of Astrakhan, a move aimed at strengthening its economic position in the Caspian region.
French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday he would back the creation of a buffer zone between Syria and Turkey to protect displaced civilians fleeing the bloody Daech offensive.
At least one person died and 38 others were injured after a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted a county in southwest China's Yunnan Province Tuesday night, said local government.
Myanmar has offered 20 sectors of economic activities to local and foreign investors in the country' s first biggest Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project being implemented on the outskirts of Yangon by a Myanmar-Japan joint venture, according to the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development Tuesday.
Microsoft launched its Xbox One gaming console in China on Monday, ending a 14-year ban during the one-year anniversary of the founding of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ).
A year after the Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ) was established, reforms piloted in the zone have now been applied elsewhere in the country.
An international group of scientists is planning to drill a 1.3-km deep hole into the hills of New Zealand's Southern Alps in order to understand how earthquakes are produced.
China's pilot free trade zone in Shanghai is not merely a place with special regulations, but will pioneer reforms for the rest of China, officials have claimed.
Three months after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished without a trace, search coordinators in Australia, Wednesday, released a request for tender to continue the as yet unsuccessful deep-water search in the Southern Ocean.
The Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ) relaxed barriers to cross-border capital flow on Friday, giving banks and firms in the zone greater freedom in foreign exchange.
The nurturing of private lenders in China gained traction on Wednesday as Shanghai's first private bank prepared to open in the free trade zone (FTZ)
Rules on implementation of the free trade account system that enables full convertibility of the Chinese currency and allows offshore financing in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone will be rolled out before the end of June, an official said Tuesday.
The reform will help to test the market and to gain experience, laying a firm foundation for the deepening of interest-rate liberalization nationwide, said Zhang Xin, deputy director of the PBoC's Shanghai headquarters.
More detailed measures will be soon rolled out to implement the central bank's guideline to push financial reforms in Shanghai's free trade zone, an official with the zone said on Tuesday.
Changes to a raft of measures on foreign investment approval and admission control within the pilot free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai were announced by the Chinese government on Monday.
Cross-border yuan borrowing in the Qianhai experimental zone is expected to grow tenfold by the end of 2015, said an official with the zone in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, citing more yuan inflow from Hong Kong.
The Shanghai FTZ covers 29 square kilometers in four areas of Shanghai, China's financial hub.By the end of October, over 200 companies had set up in the zone. The zone is now operating under the framework of an administrative regulation and five other documents.
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