Foreign and defense officials from China and Japan kicked off a high-level security meeting here on Thursday, the first one between the two sides in more than four years.
There has been increasing speculation about what might have happened to Russian President Vladimir Putin since Wednesday when news broke that a trilateral summit scheduled to take place later of the week among leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus in Astana, the national capital of Kazakhstan, was postponed for unknown reasons.
Leading international financial and economic organizations, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), called for more reform and growth efforts from the euro countries during a meeting on Wednesday in Berlin.
A ministerial meeting of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies kicked off Tuesday with a call for cooperation towards social development.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said leaders of Normandy quartet (Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine) have agreed to meet in Minsk next Wednesday, provided that certain positions are agreed upon by then, Interfax news agency reported Sunday.
The Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) on Thursday morning opened its seventh regular meeting in Taipei to review the implementation of a landmark trade agreement signed by the mainland and Taiwan in 2010.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang listened to opinions on education, science and technology, culture, health and sports, while presiding over a meeting on the government work report on Tuesday.
Syria will exert all possible efforts to ensure a meeting in Moscow over the Syrian crisis a success, Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said on Tuesday.
The chief nuclear negotiator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Monday that he has explained the intentions and purpose of the recent proposal put forward by the DPRK at an unofficial meeting here with former senior officials and experts from the United States.
A senior Pakistani military commander has visited Afghanistan to discuss border security amid growing military-to-military cooperation, the army said on Monday.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2015 scheduled from Jan. 21 to 24 in Davos of Switzerland would serve as a platform looking for solutions to major challenges faced by the world, said the organization on Wednesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visiting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday reconfirmed the path of seeking a political solution to the ongoing Ukraine crisis.
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee wrapped up its 10th meeting in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Monday with the completion of some major tasks, including the nomination of officials to "strategic positions."
The second meeting of the Cambodia-China Inter-Governmental Coordination Committee was hosted here on Tuesday, with the two sides promising to further enhance the bilateral cooperation.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a national meeting Monday to mark the third anniversary of Kim Jong Un's assumption of supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the official KCNA news agency reported.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived Bangkok Friday to attend the fifth summit of the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his Kazakh counterpart Karim Masimov on Monday reached preliminary consensus on a capacity cooperation framework agreement worth 18 billion U.S. dollars.
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