UNITED NATIONS - Billionaire Bill Gates told a UN forum on Monday that financing for development needs to change in order to meet the needs of developing nations and one change entails the coordination of donors.
URUMQI - Customs of the city of Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region said Monday that the number of China-Europe freight trains they handled from January to October surpassed the total number of last year.
Two bullet trains will travel from Beijing to Xiongan New Area on July 6, a trip of about 80 minutes from Beijing South Station to Baoding Station in Hebei province.
Two Seattle girls launched a balloon to the edge of space this weekend, and have the video to prove it (106 comments, 39,600 Facebook likes)
Two of the suspects are Malaysian nationals while the remaining four are from Singapore, Bangladesh, the Philippines and an unnamed South Asian country, according to a statement by Malaysian police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun.
Two State Grid technicians check power transmission facilities in Chuzhou, Anhui province. [Photo by Song Weixing/for China Daily]
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U Htin Kyaw also met Premier Li Keqiang on Monday. Li stressed that stability in northern Myanmar has a direct effect on security of Southwest China.
UNITED NATIONS - "Serious political negotiations" are necessary for finding a solution to lasting peace in Venezuela, the spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday.
Two doctors involved have been suspended pending an investigation.
UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly on Friday elected Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam as non-permanent members of UN Security Council, which will serve a two-year term starting from Jan 1, 2020.