The IMF revised up its forecast of China's 2016 GDP growth by 0.1% to 6.6% on Tuesday, citing the country's "recent policy support", including interest rate cuts, fiscal expansion, and investment increases.
Taiwan lawmakers and fishermen headed to an island in the South China Sea on Wednesday to protest an international tribunal's ruling in The Hague.
I spent most of my first visit to Panama, in June, in the mountainous region near the Costa Rican border. We visited relatives who had moved to the small town of Volcan at the foot of the Baru Volcano, which gives the town its name.
Private and semi-public businesses are being encouraged to invest in the key projects to be launched during China's 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), and the interests and legitimate rights of investors should be protected, Premier Li Keqiang has said.
"If we incite people to do good by issuing decrees and meting out punishment, all we shall do is create those who fear the stick rather than those who revere doing right; but if we lead people on a just path with morality, we will breed a people imbued with an awareness of shame and they will submit themselves to governance."
Twenty-four tourists from the Chinese mainland were among 26 people killed in a bus fire in Taiwan on Tuesday afternoon. There were no survivors.
Above throngs of busy commuters at a Shanghai railway station, four large billboards - some sandwiched between the screens flashing train schedules - spotlighted the name of the head of a midsize industrial products maker.
China's top mobile telecom carriers have launched 4G service on the Nansha Islands, in an effort to safeguard the country's legal claim in the South China Sea and to improve communication services for local people.
The death in June of Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, reignited memories of an interview more than a decade ago in Dubai.
Item from July 20, 1988, in China Daily: In a 90-square-meter prefabricated house in Beijing's Chaoyang district, a group of young people are playing billiards on a summer night. ...
Chinese investors are snapping up top soccer clubs in Spain, Britain and Italy. At the same time, Chinese clubs are targeting first-class foreign players. Soccer fans are excited.
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