This week is the World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated globally every year from Aug 1 to 7 to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. According to data released from China's health department, the breastfeeding ratio has reached 58.5 percent.
Twenty-seven Chinese tourists were assaulted on Tuesday by half a dozen men as they boarded a bus that was to take them to Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, a French police source said.
Banking operations in India were badly affected Friday as around one million bank employees of 40 private and public banks staged a one-day strike to protest against the policy for banking sector of the government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The effects of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union will show gradually over time, but won’t change the stable pattern of China’s capital movement, according to the nation’s foreign exchange regulator.
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The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), or the central bank, conducted more than 100 billion yuan of reverse repurchase agreements (repo) at the open market yesterday, a process in which the central bank purchases securities from banks with an agreement to resell them in the future, so as to deal with the short-term fluctuation in capital supply at the end of the month.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange on May 30 recorded a trading volume of 115.6 billion yuan, the lowest in recent months, and continued to trade sideways. However, A shares face the test for the inclusion in the MSCI emerging market index for the third time in the middle of June, and probability exceeding 50 percent is expected.
Chinese banks saw 23.7 billion U.S. dollars of net foreign exchange sales in April, down from March, official data showed Monday.
Two soldiers are among four people arrested and charged with ritual killings that hit Lusaka, the Zambian capital in recent months, the police said on Tuesday.
Global investors are again betting on Chinese A-shares' future as the latest opportunity has arisen for them to be included in a flagship global benchmarks index.
People in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and elsewhere got panicked by a powerful earthquake which jolted neighboring Myanmar and parts of the region Wednesday evening.
A sharp fall in net sales of foreign exchange by China's central bank in February indicates capital outflow is easing and the yuan is stabilizing.
Cambodia's National Assembly on Wednesday ratified the agreement on the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which enables the country to become a founding member of the China-initiated bank.
The stock market plunges on Monday and Tuesday morning might have marked a rocky start for China's capital market. Jitters aside, the capital market is expected to experience an eventful year and a smoother journey thanks to a series of reforms.
Fundraising by China's new IPOs in 2016 is estimated to hit 250 billion yuan ($40 billion) to 300 billion yuan this year, making the A-share IPO market the biggest one globally, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Monday.
China has approved RMB convertibility on the capital account within 10 million U.S. dollars for the Tianjin, Guangdong and Fujian free trade zones (FTZs), the central bank said on Friday.
The government of Nepal has tightened up security in capital Kathmandu and Constituent Assembly premise as the country is all set to promulgate its new constitution Sunday evening.
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