Hong Kong has been playing the role of a trade facilitator for developing countries, offering them an extraordinary platform in Asia, an economist told the APD just days before a UN forum on south-south cooperation kicks off in the city.
Under the theme of “ICT, Innovation, Culture and Sustainable urbanization”, the Annual Forum on South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development 2013 focuses on how to spur ICT innovations in the cultural and urban environment of the South with a view to advancing sustainable development and urbanization, within the framework of South-South Cooperation(SSC).
Former high-ranking officials and prominent figures from China, Japan and South Korea on Monday called for seeking common interests to improve trilateral pragmatic cooperation here in the new era in efforts to maintain regional peace, stability and prosperity.
Bolivian President Evo Morales will meet with counterparts from the Union of South American Nations ( Unasur) later Thursday to discuss the rerouting of his flight earlier this week when several European countries denied his plane access to their airspace on suspicions that Edward Snowdon was on board.
The world is bracing for a population explosion but few have any solutions. The global population, currently 7.2 billion, barreling past 8.1 billion by 2025, to 9.6 billion people by the year 2050, and then almost 11 billion by 2100.
Singaporean non-resident envoy to Fiji paid a courtesy call Thursday to Fijian Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, saying small island countries need to become relevant and form allies in order to succeed.
The World Bank on Wednesday slightly scaled down its forecast of global economic growth rate to 2.2 percent for this year, 0.2 percentage point lower than its January forecast.
Trade officials from China and South Asian countries at the just-concluded 1st China-South Asia Expo proposed to strengthen cooperation and maintain economic growth amid the lackluster economic rebound.
Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva on Monday met with his visiting Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff here to discuss measures to promote bilateral relations, in particular economic cooperation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, met Friday in this picturesque estate in Rancho Mirage, California, to exchange views on major issues of common concern.
The meeting between Xi Jinping and Barack Obama at Sunnylands marked a meaningful step forward in forging a new type of relations between China and the United States, scholars have said.
China and Canada signed an initiative on military cooperation as defense ministers of the two countries held talks in Beijing on Monday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on Sunday to scale up assistance to Caribbean nations in an effort to give fresh impetus to the cooperation between China and the region.
The World Bank announced Wednesday a new initiative to improve the investment environment and competitiveness, and to share prosperity among Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- pledged in a joint communiqu on the sidelines of the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, to strengthen intra-BRICS cooperation in promoting health of their peoples.
U.S. and China can cooperate more to resolve a range of challenges to advance global economic recovery, said Tung Chee Hwa, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's political advisory body, on Wednesday.
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday encouraged enterprises in both China and India to tap the potentials of each other's markets and seize investment opportunities.
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