An Indonesian minister said on Wednesday that government is considering possibilities to receive foreign assistance to help the efforts to stop the forest fire in Sumatra and Kalimantan as the scale and level of difficulties in dealing with the problem requires more capable instruments.
"China and U.S. relations will continue to improve. There's no other choice," said Elaine Chao, the former U.S. Secretary of Labor, in a recent interview with Xinhua. "The U.S. and China are the two largest countries, they must get along," said Chao, who served as the Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009.
Government officials in Japan said on Tuesday that talks between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York had been fruitful with a number of agreements being made, as both sides eye an official summit between the two leaders in Japan later this year.
China pledged on Friday a 20-billion-yuan (3-billion-U.S. dollars) fund to help other developing countries combat climate change.
The refugee issue is not only a German challenge, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday in her government statement in Berlin.
"China is a welcome partner of the developing countries," said Tegegnework Gettu, UN Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, on Thursday, a day ahead of the landmark UN Sustainable Development Summit.
The eighth round of top-level talks among China, Japan and Republic of Korea over establishing a free trade area (FTA) kicked off in Beijing on Thursday.
Chinese tourism chief on Wednesday vowed all-out efforts to bring the "China-U.S. Year of Tourism in 2016" a success.
Six decades ago, a huge paramilitary corps that now administers eight cities with a combined population of 2.7 million did not even exist on maps.
In addition to a 21-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House and an elaborate state dinner, what also await Xi are tightly-scheduled discussions with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on a variety of issues enveloping the relations between the world's two largest economies.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is leaving for the United States on Tuesday for his first state visit to the country from Sept. 22 to 25.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that the joint efforts made by the United States and China can generate many possibilities and the leadership of the two countries is vital to achieving a successful global climate agreement in Paris later this year. At the closing ceremony of the China-U.S. Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles, Biden said: "There is no obvious reason why the U.S. and China can be competitors or enemies...
Dealing with the effects of climate change is an uphill battle that involves all nations, big and small, rich and poor. During his upcoming state visit to the United States in late September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. host Barack Obama are likely to exhibit even stronger aspiration and resolution to help our planet, together with other countries, win the make-or-break battle.
Iran attaches importance to the growth of its "good" ties with Brazil as the economically-influential country in the Latin America, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said here on Sunday, according to official IRNA news agency.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), meeting for a plenary session in Strasbourg, voted on Thursday in favor of a resolution on a new emergency relocation proposal for an increased number of asylum seekers.
Tourism authorities and enterprises in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a predominantly Muslim area, have signed business deals with counterparts from Arab countries and Malaysia at a trade fair in regional capital Yinchuan.
Russian Foreign ministry on Monday denied that Russia is in agreement with the United States and Saudi Arabia to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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