Press Conference on China´s Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations
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China aims to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent in the five years to 2015, Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday at the opening of the parliament’s annual session. Carbon dioxide emission…
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) lashed out at the United States on Sunday for “shielding” South Korea’s plot to force some missing DPRK fisherpeople to “defect,” the official KCNA news agency reported. A…
Russian Foreign Ministry has urged immediate criminal investigation into a group of Japanese who protested outside Russia’s Embassy last month and burned Russian national flags. Russian foreign ministry has summoned Japan’s charge d’affairs to Russia,…
The Victorian theatre of spectacle is alive and well, and residing at the London Palladium. But although this adaptation of the Frank Baum book and the 1939 movie, with additional songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber…
The Obama administration will delay a deadline requiring polluters to report their greenhouse gases from March 31 to later this summer. The Environmental Protection Agency says it is extending the deadline requiring thousands of businesses to…
Veils that cover the face to be illegal from next month, with President Sarkozy accused of trying to win far-right votes. From Saudi tourists window-shopping on the Champs-Élysées to Muslim women in a departure lounge…
China is not in favor of setting any preconditions for restarting the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, which have been stalled for about two years, a senior diplomat said Friday. China takes…
The global economy is now expanding after the profound crisis over the last three years, but the recovery is facing several major challenges and risks in the near term, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner…
German Defense Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg announced late Monday that he gave up his doctorate title permanently, as investigations are going on over his allegedly plagiarizing large parts of his thesis in 2006. His…