TAIPEI, Taiwan: The American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan has recommended that the United States “urgently” initiate talks with Taiwan on a Bilateral Trade Agreement, with a “completed text presented for passage in 2024.” Taiwan has also been campaigning for such an agreement, as it would be a strong show of support for the Chinese-claimed […]
© Provided by Xinhua The system “operates with serious built-in limitations inserted by the gun lobby, which pushed to speed up gun sales — inserting a provision that allows gun dealers to give purchasers their weapons if an investigation is not completed within three business days,” said the report. BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) — Once […]
BEIJING, June 23 (Xinhua) — The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 24 major currencies announced on Thursday by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System: Currency Unit Central parity rate in yuan U.S. dollar 100 670.79 Euro 100 708.75 Japanese yen 100 4.9326 Hong Kong dollar […]
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Pakistan became one of the most dangerous human rights abusers in the world during the rule of Imran Khan, a local media reported. After General Pervez Musharraf, Imran Khan was one of the notorious human rights abusers, who tried to suppress the media house, human rights groups, and social media […]
Muzaffarabad [PoK], June 21 (ANI): The decision of the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) government to buy a new luxurious car worth Rs 100 million for President Barrister Sultan Mahmood had sparked strong criticism from the civil society. This comes when the members of the cabinet and parliamentary secretaries of the PoK have been registering their […]
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], June 20 (ANI): A day after violence erupted at the Ludhiana railway station amid protest against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme, Ludhiana Police on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday took stock of Ludhiana railway station. In a conversation with ANI on Sunday night, Ludhiana Commissioner of Police (CP) Kaustubh Sharma said, […]
NEW YORK – The price of bitcoin fell below $20,000 Saturday for the first time since late 2020, in a fresh sign that the sell-off in cryptocurrencies is deepening. Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, fell below the psychologically important threshold, dropping by as much as 9% to less than $19,000 and hovering around that mark, […]
There’s an old saying in football that a team makes its biggest improvements from its first game to its second. The Edmonton Elks better hope that’s true, or they might be in for another long night Saturday when they host the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Edmonton’s season opener on June 11 was truly one to forget. The […]
© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) — Riding the waves of green transition, China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) sector has turbocharged growth and entered the fast lane. It is now geared up to play a bigger role in upgrading the global auto industry. Lastest data showed that China’s sales of NEVs topped 11.08 […]
© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) — While many western observers pit health against wealth in fighting the epidemic, assuming that one must come at the expense of the other, China holds a philosophy that protecting the two during a pandemic is by no means a zero-sum game. On the one hand, the […]
