SEOUL - Choi Soon-sil, a decades-long friend of ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye, was sentenced to 20 years in jail on the conviction for multiple corruption charges, heralding a heavy sentence on Park who was identified as an accomplice to Choi.
SEOUL - The sentence on former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was reduced to 20 years in prison on Friday in a retrial of the corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of the former head of state, according to local media.
SHANGHAI -- China's cross-border e-commerce imports rose 24.3 percent year on year to 45.65 billion yuan (.64 billion) in the first half of 2019, according to a bureau for duty collection of the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in will cheer together with Kim Yong-nam, who came to South Korea Friday as the head of of the DPRK's Olympic delegation, for a joint women's ice hockey team of the two Koreas Saturday night, the presidential Blue House said.
Russia is unlikely to replace the United States as China's main soybean supplier in the immediate future, according to industry insiders.
SINGAPORE - China's effective handling of the COVID-19 crisis has provided stability to the global industrial chain amid economic disruptions, a Singaporean economics scholar has said.
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SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba - If the central Cuban city of Villa Clara is inextricably linked to Che Guevara, the iconic Argentine guerrilla leader, then Santiago de Cuba can be considered Fidel Castro's city.
SF Holding announced in a stock exchange filing on Monday night that its revenue from the express delivery business rose 19.1 percent year-on-year to 8.34 billion yuan (.2 billion) last month.
Rural areas like Ngang in the western African nation used to be without electricity because of the high cost of connecting to the national power grid. A solar panel plant, sponsored by Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, has not only ended the dark days there, but also brought fundamental changes to the day-to-day life of the local population.
SHANGHAI - A special court to handle bankruptcy cases was set up in Shanghai on Friday, according to local authorities.