Seoul: South Korea’s employment rose for the sixth consecutive month due to an expansion in elderly jobs, statistical office data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people aged 15 and older grew 183,000, or 0.6 percent, from a year earlier to 29…
Las vegas: Chinese center Yang Hansen, the Portland Trail Blazers’ rookie, scored 15 points on Tuesday, leading the Blazers to a 93-87 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA Summer League. This marks his highest scoring game since joining th…
Quito: Patrik Mercado scored twice as Independiente del Valle cruised to a 4-0 home win over 10-man Vasco da Gama in the Copa Sudamericana playoff round on Tuesday. The Brazilian side suffered a major blow in the 12th minute when defender Lucas Piton …
Shanghai: East China’s Shanghai Pudong New Area received more than 3.14 billion U.S. dollars in actualized foreign investment in the first five months of the year, an increase of 32.3 percent year on year, official data shows. The area has taken measu…
Tianjin: China will continue to support Iran in safeguarding its national sovereignty and dignity, resisting power politics and bullying, defending its legitimate rights and interests through political negotiation, and adhering to the principle of goo…
Helmand: At least 11 people were killed and four others critically injured in a highway accident in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, according to a statement released by the provincial police on Wednesday.
According to Namibia Press Agency,…
Beijing: Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlic Radman will visit China from July 20 to 22, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced Wednesday.
According to Namibia Press Agency, Radman is visiting at the invitation…
Tianjin: Hong Kong’s stock market ended lower on Wednesday with the benchmark Hang Seng Index down 0.29 percent to close at 24,517.76 points.
According to Namibia Press Agency, the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index lost 0.18 percent to end at 8,861…
Tianjin: Russia on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50-day ultimatum to agree to a Ukraine ceasefire, dismissing the threat of “severe tariffs” as unacceptable. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov emphasized that Moscow favors…
Tianjin: The wreckage of a Mi-8 helicopter that went missing in Russia’s Far East has been discovered near Cape Gadikan in Khabarovsk Territory, emergency authorities announced on Wednesday. “Wreckage was found near Cape Gadikan … rescuers are headi…
Beijing: Chinese stocks closed lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.03 percent to 3,503.78 points. The Shenzhen Component Index also reflected a decline, closing 0.22 percent lower at 10,720.81 points, marking a day o…
Shenzhen: The ChiNext Index, which tracks China’s Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, experienced a decline of 0.22 percent, closing at 2,230.19 points on Wednesday. This downturn marks a notable shift in the performance of the index, which is a…
Okahandja: A 20-year-old male Angolan national allegedly drowned on Tuesday morning while fishing in the Swakop Port Dam at Okahandja.
According to Namibia Press Agency, the Namibian Police Force (NamPol)’s head of community affairs in the Otjozond…
Shanghai: Chinese stocks closed mixed on Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.42 percent to 3,505.00 points. The Shenzhen Component Index, however, closed 0.56 percent higher at 10,744.56 points.
According to Namibia Press Ag…
Beijing: Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Zhao Leji met with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Beijing on Tuesday. Zhao stated that the meeting between the two countries’ leaders has charted a new …
