Montenegro's highway a road to success

Project uses loans, expertise under Belt and Road Initiative

How one project could change a country

PODGORICA - Montenegro needs to build a strategic highway to further open up and modernize the country, said Veselin Vukotic, a former minister and currently rector of Montenegro's youngest private university, in a recent interview.

Official: China-funded construction is no debt burden

PODGORICA - Montenegro's public finances are sustainable thanks to the government's fiscal changes, said an official, adding that the country will continue to build its first highway.

Trade conflicts fill US food banks

Raising six children is a daunting task, especially when it comes to giving them nutritious food at an affordable price, which is why Ashley Bledsoe gets groceries at United Food Bank in Mesa, Arizona.

100 years on, Spanish Flu carries warning

PARIS - It was the disease to end all others, infecting a third of humanity, killing tens of millions in their beds and prompting panicked talk of the end of days across continents still reeling from war.

SMEs put in spotlight at international Guangzhou fair

A major international fair for small and medium-sized enterprises opens today in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province.

UAE becomes first Arab co-host of expo

The United Arab Emirates will forge a closer partnership with China as both look to develop small and medium-sized enterprises, according to a trade promotion official from the Gulf country.

DPRK and US agree to 2nd summit

The highly-anticipated second summit between the leaders of the DPRK and the US should focus on the discussion of how to turn their vague commitments of denuclearization into phased steps and diplomatic measures, a Chinese expert said.

Bolsonaro leads but vote goes to runoff

Brazil's far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, but still faces a runoff against his leftist rival Fernando Haddad later this month, while the final outcome is still hard to predict, said a Chinese expert.

20 killed after limo crashes on way to birthday celebration

SCHOHARIE, New York - A limousine carrying four sisters, other relatives and friends to a birthday celebration blew through a stop sign and slammed into a parked SUV outside a store in upstate New York, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians, officials and victims' relatives said on Sunday.

UN warns world must take 'unprecedented' steps to avert worst effects of global warming

INCHEON, Republic of Korea - Society would have to enact "unprecedented" changes to how it consumes energy, travels and builds to meet a lower global warming target or it risks increases in heat waves, flood-causing storms and the chances of drought in some regions as well as the loss of species, a UN report said on Monday.

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