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.
Shi Guangyin has faced the full force of China's monster deserts.
Barack Obama addressed the White House through TV link on Tuesday, demanding the Syria government to give up its stockpiles of chemical weapons to the international venue.
The U.S. Senate delayed a test vote Monday on authorizing a limited military strike on Syria, amid signs of a possible breakthrough in international diplomacy to seek a political solution.
Canada's Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver said on Monday that strengthen the energy relationship between Canada and the U.S. will benefit the two countries.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed a Russian proposal to put Syrian chemical weapons under international control, saying it is a "potentially positive development," and could lead to a "breakthrough" on the crisis, while warning the proposal shouldn't be used as a stalling tactic.
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.
Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he is "confident" that US congress will agree to government's plan to launch military strike against Syria.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon warned on Tuesday that all parties should not rush to military action before UN investigations results come out, as the U.S. government is launching a lobbying campaign seeking Congressional approval for a strike against Syria.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday ruled out the possibility of NATO's role in possible military strikes against Syria, but he added that the international community should respond to the alleged use of chemical weapons in that country.
The U.S. Congress is not a legitimate source to issue a permit for military intervention in Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Sunday.
Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela was "fully alive," contrary to media reports that he was in a vegetative state, his grandson Mandla Mandela said on Sunday.
Moscow hoped a "war of civilizations" in Syria could be avoided, despite the fact Western powers had been moving along that path, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
Western claims that the Syrian government used chemical weapons were "an insult to common sense," Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with a Russian newspaper published Monday.
In his hands, the bony structure discarded by gourmets is turned into elaborate landscapes and works of art at a gallery in the coastal city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province.
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who is also co-leader of the opposition Japan Restoration Party, revealed that he has asked the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to retract its resolution condemning his remarks on the so-called "comfort women" in the Japanese military during World War II, saying he has never justified the use of such women under the military regime, local press reported on Friday.
Zimbabwe's veteran President Robert Mugabe was sworn into office on Thursday for another five-year term against the backdrop of Western rejection of his election victory.
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