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.
Two foreigners submit their applications at a job fair in Beijing. A growing number of overseas professionals are relocating to China to brighten their careers. [Photo by Li Sanxian / For China Daily]
Two months later, the Hebei high court rejected Wang's appeal, sentenced Wang to death and submitted the sentence to the Supreme People's Court for review. The Hebei high court also said Wang was not responsible for the rape and murder of Kang in Shijiazhuang in 1994.
ULAN BATOR - Mongolia will step up its efforts to reduce air pollution in the capital Ulan Bator, parliament speaker Gombojav Zandanshatar said Tuesday.
UNITED NATIONS - The elections of five judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) were held simultaneously at the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council on Wednesday and Thursday. Chinese candidate Xue Hanqin, currently serving as the vice president of the ICJ, was re-elected with high votes.
Two decades ago, Shenzhen-based Tencent started out with messenger service provider QQ, but its best-known product today is WeChat, whose user number has just surpassed 1 billion globally.
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Two cross-province direct settlement platforms-introduced last year for urban residents' basic medical insurance and rural residents' new cooperative medical reimbursement-feature easier procedures for cross-regional applications, said Li Tao, deputy head of the State medical insurance administration. They have seen a surge in reimbursements, Li said.
UK Tourism Minister Helen Whately said that the British government is keen to attract more Chinese tourists, who typically spend three times as much as the average travelers do while in Britain. Last year, 391,380 Chinese nationals came to the UK where they spent 657 million pounds (8 million).
Two decades ago, the village relied on cloth mills, printing and dyeing plants, and factories producing plastic and rubber to make its fortune. But the heavy polluting industries damaged the environment, leaving behind mounds of waste and sludge. "We even had to cover our noses when crossing the village," one resident said.
UBS Wealth Management is overweight on Chinese equities among Asian stocks as the Chinese market has the potential to outrun the region in the remainder of the year, Min Lan Tan, Asia-Pacific head of the firm's chief investment office, said in a teleconference on Tuesday.