UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday urged the plain packaging of tobacco products, saying it is a "simple measure with proven effectiveness in reducing demand."
Officials from the World Bank Group would be coming to India in June 2016 for the purpose of data collection for its - Doing Business 2017 annual report which is scheduled to come out in October later this year.
China breathed new life into their World Cup dream when they stunned Qatar 2-0 to move to the brink of the next round of qualifying on Tuesday.
Chinese actress and UN Refugee Agency Goodwill Ambassador Yao Chen was selected asone of the "Young Global Leaders" in 2016 by the World Economic Forum. 13 other Chinesewere also on the list.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday the government is experienced in dealing with various risks and has sufficient policies and tools.
The World Bank Group on Thursday announced that it has provided 150 million U.S. dollars to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to combat the Zika virus outbreak.The Washington-based global lender said in a statement that this funding, which is immediately available, is based on current country demands for financing and the bank "stands ready to increase its support" if additional financing is needed.
Indonesia's economy took a 221 trillion rupiah (S$22.1-billion) hit this year from forest fires that cloaked South-east Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, the World Bank said on Tuesday (Dec 15).
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on Thursday that the bank looks forward to enhancing cooperation with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
China will consider and discuss whether to nominate the "comfort women" files to the Memory of the World Register with other relevant countries as recommended by UNESCO's feedback, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Tensions between the two Asian giants, China and Japan, are running high after the Japanese government tried to block China's application to UNESCO to list documents relating to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and "comfort women", or the 200, 000 sex slaves taken by Japanese troops during World War II, in the Memory of the World program.
The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to below the 10 percent of the global population in 2015, according to a forecast released by the World Bank Sunday.
World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region, Annette Dixon, has pledged strong support for the development of Bangladesh.
The Chinese women's volleyball team is on the road to a great rejuvenation after their emphatic fourth World Cup victory.
China overpowered host Japan 3-1 and won its fourth women's volleyball World Cup title on Sunday.
As the world is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, a leading British scholar is calling for more recognition of China's contributions to the Allies' victory over Japan in World War II (WWII).
"My design is a UAV for monitoring water quality, and it uses some of remote sensing technology to reach the goal," said Ke Shuai, from Middle School attached to HUST China. He presented his design on Sunday during World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
Uganda's star runner Moses Ndiema Kipsiro has failed to qualify for the 2015 World Championship to be held in Beijing, China this month.
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