A runoff is expected to take place between Brazil's incumbent President Dilma Rousseff and her rival Aecio Neves on Oct. 26.
PPDai, one of China's largest P2P online lending platforms, on Wednesday announced the completion of its series B financing round led by Lightspeed China Partners.
China, South Korea and Japan started the fourth round of negotiations on trilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in Seoul on Tuesday.
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al- Moallem said Sunday that the second round of talks in the Geneva II conference hasn't failed, according to the official SANA news agency.
Russia and the United States reaffirmed their support to the ongoing second round of Geneva II conference on Syria and assured that they would help to push forward the stalled peace talks, said UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on Thursday.
Syrian government and opposition delegates resume the second round of talks Monday morning.
A meeting on Syria crisis between the UN mediator and senior officials from Russia and the United States will take place on Friday, a UN official said Monday.
China, South Korea and Japan discussed modality, or basis guideline, on the trilateral free trade agreement (FTA) at the third round of talks, Seoul's trade ministry said Friday. The three Asian countries talked about the trilateral FTA's modality such as how to make a draft of liberalization for goods at the third round of negotiation, which was held in Tokyo for four days through Friday, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE).
Opposition candidate Michelle Bachelet finished far ahead in the first round of Chile's presidential election on Sunday, but failed to win 50 percent of the votes needed to win an outright first-round victory.
Peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the largest Muslim rebel group in the country, resumed Thursday in Malaysia.
The head of a 50-member electoral observation mission in Mali sent by the African union (AU) has called on Malians to turn out "massively" in Sunday's presidential run-off.
South Korea called the second round of talks with China and Japan for a trilateral free trade agreement (FTA) as "constructive" after ending the negotiation in Shanghai on Friday.
One person died and 270,000 others were affected by a new round of rain in central China's Hunan Province, authorities said Wednesday. Downpours have also swept Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.
China's history stretching back thousands of years has seen the migration of people and mixing of ethnicities.
The Indo-Asian News Service quoted Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma as saying on Tuesday that India has urged the need to "revitalize the Doha WTO negotiations to put in place a rule-based multilateral trade regime in order to revive the global economy".
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