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Cambodia unveils masterplan to boost tourism in two world heritage sites

Cambodia unveils masterplan to boost tourism in two world heritage sites

Xinhua 2019-09-18 17:32:38

Cambodia is set to roll out the Four-Strategic Plan for Tourism Development aimed at reviving tourism at the Angkor Archaeological Park and the Preah Vihear temple in northern provinces, a local newsp...

Netanyahu teetering in close election race

Netanyahu teetering in close election race

-- 2019-09-18 13:08:22

Israel’s election remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with television stations carrying unofficial results showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tied with his main rival, former mi...

Open your eyes: UN envoy to Suu Kyi

Open your eyes: UN envoy to Suu Kyi

-- 2019-09-18 10:54:27

A UN human rights expert has implored Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to ‘feel with her heart before it is too late’, saying that even if Rohingyas wished to return they h...

India expects to gain control over Pakistan occupied Kashmir

India expects to gain control over Pakistan occupied Kashmir

Reuters 2019-09-18 10:11:28

India’s foreign minister said that the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan belongs to India and that he expected New Delhi to gain physical control over it one day, as the two countries aga...

US has no right to arbitrarily convict Iran

US has no right to arbitrarily convict Iran

Global Times 2019-09-17 17:00:23

Saudi Arabia's oil facilities were attacked by drones on Saturday. According to The Economist, Saudi Arabia's oil output was cut in half because of the attacks. Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed resp...

Iranian arms used in Saudi attack: Riyadh

Iranian arms used in Saudi attack: Riyadh

-- 2019-09-17 16:38:20

Saudi Arabia said on Monday that the attack on its oil facilities was carried out with Iranian weapons, according to a preliminary investigation, but stopped short of directly blaming regional foe Ira...

Blast kills 24 at Afghan election rally, aide says president unhurt

Blast kills 24 at Afghan election rally, aide says president unhurt

-- 2019-09-17 16:21:33

An explosion near an election rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani killed 24 people and injured 31 others, a health official said, but Ghani was unhurt according to an aide, reports Reuters...

China, Russia pledge to bolster strategic partnership

China, Russia pledge to bolster strategic partnership

Xinhua 2019-09-17 16:10:07

China and Russia on Monday pledged to bolster relations and further develop their comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua and Russian Deputy...

15 die as truck falls off cliff in Philippines

15 die as truck falls off cliff in Philippines

-- 2019-09-17 14:22:00

Philippine police say at least 15 villagers were killed and several others injured when the truck they were riding in lost control and fell off a cliff in a remote mountain village in the country&rsqu...

Aramco attack a reciprocal response by Yemen, says Rouhani

Aramco attack a reciprocal response by Yemen, says Rouhani

Reuters 2019-09-17 11:29:11

An attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities was a reciprocal measure by “Yemeni people” to assaults on this country, said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday, hours afte...

Xi underlines security, openness in cyberspace

Xi underlines security, openness in cyberspace

Xinhua 2019-09-16 18:15:02

President Xi Jinping has highlighted the necessity for a cyberspace environment that is safe and manageable as well as open and innovative. Efforts should be made to raise people's sense of fulfillme...

HK needs stronger common interests

HK needs stronger common interests

Global Times 2019-09-16 17:50:29

The number of people participating in radical protests in Hong Kong has significantly dropped. However, few violent protesters still act rampantly. Because Hong Kong is at the crossroads of worsening...

Saudi oil attacks: Will fuel prices go up?

Saudi oil attacks: Will fuel prices go up?

BBC 2019-09-16 17:29:12

Saudi Arabia's state-owned company Aramco is the world's biggest oil producer, generating 10 per cent of the world's oil, but it is also one of the world's most profitable businesses. For a drone att...

Restore normal life in Kashmir, India's top court asks government

Restore normal life in Kashmir, India's top court asks government

-- 2019-09-16 17:01:47

India’s top court has asked the federal government of the country to restore normal life in Kashmir as soon as possible, as a partial shutdown of the disputed region entered its 42nd day. India...

There will be no Rouhani-Trump meeting at UN: Iran

There will be no Rouhani-Trump meeting at UN: Iran

-- 2019-09-16 13:20:19

Iran said on Monday there would be no meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the United Nations, Iranian state television reported, after the White Hou...

Kim invites Trump to Pyongyang in new letter

Kim invites Trump to Pyongyang in new letter

-- 2019-09-16 12:52:14

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited US President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources. The letter, th...

CPC issues revised regulations on Party rules

CPC issues revised regulations on Party rules

Xinhua 2019-09-15 20:28:32

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has issued a set of revised and newly drafted regulations on the Party's rules and normative documents. The regulations include revised versions o...

Suu Kyi stripped off of honorary freedom award

Suu Kyi stripped off of honorary freedom award

-- 2019-09-15 18:18:37

The City of London Corporation in the United Kingdom has suspended its 2017 honorary freedom award bestowed on Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to Burmese local media. The Myanma...

US hawks’ ‘China threat’ paranoia knows no bounds

US hawks’ ‘China threat’ paranoia knows no bounds

Global Times 2019-09-15 18:03:34

Hawks in the US have found a convenient pretext to push the "China threat" propaganda in the garb of the Hong Kong protests. By ramping up anti-China hysteria, they are trying to tar the country's nam...

Iran dismisses US allegations over Saudi oil attacks

Iran dismisses US allegations over Saudi oil attacks

Reuters 2019-09-15 17:44:20

Iran dismissed accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that disrupted world oil production and warned on Sunday that US bases and aircraft carriers in the regio...

Kathmandu battles dengue as temperatures rise

Kathmandu battles dengue as temperatures rise

Reuters 2019-09-15 16:45:12

For Prabina Maharjan, it started with a headache, which then turned into fever and body pain. When she finally turned up at the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital a week ago, tests sho...

Taliban revoke ban on Red Cross

Taliban revoke ban on Red Cross

-- 2019-09-15 12:48:18

The Taliban on Sunday revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan and gave a guarantee of security for its staff doing humanitarian work in areas under thei...

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities threaten price hikes

Attacks on Saudi oil facilities threaten price hikes

Reuters 2019-09-15 12:42:02

Saturday’s attacks on key Saudi Arabia processing plants will test the world’s ability to handle a supply crisis as it faces the temporary loss of more than 5 per cent of global supply fro...

Drone attacks knock out half of Saudi Arabia's oil supply

Drone attacks knock out half of Saudi Arabia's oil supply

Reuters 2019-09-15 10:47:15

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on Saturday, knocking out more than half the Kingdom’s output, in a move exp...

China needs to remain steady to counter US conservatism

China needs to remain steady to counter US conservatism

Global 2019-09-14 17:37:23

Bill Gertz, editor of US conservative political journalism website The Washington Free Beacon and columnist for The Washington Times, recently published his new book Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communis...

Fires from drone attacks on Aramco oil plants ‘under control’

Fires from drone attacks on Aramco oil plants ‘under control’

-- 2019-09-14 12:07:45

Drone attacks on two Saudi Aramco factories in Abqaiq and Khurais provinces on Saturday sparked fires that the state oil company brought under control, the Saudi interior ministry spokesman said witho...

China to build warship for Thai navy

China to build warship for Thai navy

Global Times 2019-09-13 18:14:26

China and Thailand have signed a deal that will see a Chinese shipbuilding company build a Type 071E landing platform dock (LPD) warship for the Thai navy, a move which shows deepened arms trade coope...

Seven die in southeast Turkey blast

Seven die in southeast Turkey blast

-- 2019-09-13 10:58:10

At least seven people were killed and 10 were wounded in southeast Turkey when an improvised explosive placed on a road went off as a vehicle carrying villagers was passing. According to a governor&r...

Aerospace, nuclear deal likely between China, Russia

Aerospace, nuclear deal likely between China, Russia

Global Times 2019-09-12 17:53:44

China and Russia are expected to reach a number of deals when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits Russia next week, Gao Feng, spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Thursday. Gao...

China, Kazakhstan lift ties

China, Kazakhstan lift ties

Global Times 2019-09-12 17:25:08

China and Kazakhstan agreed on Wednesday to forge a permanent comprehensive strategic partnership. The announcement came after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev...