The €8 million program WeEmpower Asia, funded by the EU and to be implemented by UN Women, aims to address gender concerns in business practices in the Asian countries.
There are also concerns about Europe, with the possibility of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union in March without agreeing to an exit deal, and fears that Italian banks will create a systemic crisis for the euro.
There are more than 3,000 public libraries in China. But most of them have few visitors. According to Guangzhou Library, local citizens visited it just 1.15 times on average last year.
The writers are freelance journalists for China Daily.
The world's only Hello Kitty-themed pavilion brings a fantasy world with a retro decor for fans in Shanghai.
There are not enough school counselors to handle the problems typical among young people. Instead, the job falls to teachers, who lack the expertise to address the problem, as Nora Zheng reports.
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The world economy will see annual growth of 3.5 percent in 2019, according to a forecast by economists of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The forecast was contained in a book released on Thursday.
Their combined profit came in at 1.03 trillion yuan (2.3 billion), up 10 percent year-on-year.
There are no tourists gleefully snapping pictures in front of the building on West 42nd Street where the ball drops each year to mark the new year or office workers hurrying to nearby high-rises.
The work in 2020 will largely decide the quality of China's anti-poverty campaign and the success in becoming a moderately prosperous society in all respects, Xi said in the speech.