ArmInfo. RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan met CE Commissioner for human rights Tomas Hammerberg and Chairman of the European Court for Human Rights Jean-Paul Costa in trasbourg yesterday.As RA FM press service reports, during the meeting with T. Hammerberg, E.
Chinese shares opening 1.80 percent lower on Monday, reacting on the market forecast that consumer price index may rise 8.5 percent in April. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, opened at 3,548. ...
China's new standards for plastic-bags have been officially released. And they will take effect from June onwards in a move to crack down on one of the country's key environmental hazards. New standards forbid supermarkets and shops ...
By the end of this year, China's total power generation capacity will exceed 800 million kilowatts and by 2010, the total could reach 1 billion kilowatts, according to National Energy Board Secretary Zhang Guobao. However, the proportion of ...
China's trade surplus stood at 16.68 billion U.S. dollars in April, the General Administration of Customs said on Monday. Exports rose 21.8 percent year on year to 118.71 billion U.S. dollars, while imports were up 26.3 percent to 1 ...
China's consumer price index (CPI),the main gauge of inflation, rose 8.5 percent year on year in April, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday. The figure, compared with 8.3 percent in March and a nearly 12-year-high of 8. ...
China's liquid petroleum gas (LPG) shortfall is expected to hit 7.3 million tons in 2010, led by the country's surging industrial demand. Bai Yi, deputy head of National Petroleum and Chemical Planning Institute, made the remarks at ...
Kaiming Communication Co., Ltd, an important TD chip production and research company in the 3G mobile phone industry, filed for bankruptcy recently. Kaiming is the first company to attempt to produce TD chips for 3G mobile phones, to go ban
Sales of MP3 and MP4 musical players in China saw sharp decline in the first quarter, Beijing-based CCIDC Consulting company said in its report. The country's companies sold 1.66 million units of MP3 and MP4 musical players in the f
More police officers and subway staff were put on duty in Shanghai on Monday to handle passenger peak hours -- the first work day after new security-check channels went into operation over the weekend. Metro police said they would a
Sri Lanka is the only country in the South East Asian Region that the EU has offered this concession. The objective of the GSP +, was based on integral concept of sustainable development and to promote further economic growth in
Air Force fighter jet planes pounded on a place deployed with LTTE artillery at Nedunkerni North in Mulaithivu," an air force statement said. Pilots confirmed that the air strike was successful and that they had observed several explosions in the
The attack on the ship took place just hours before residents of eastern Sri Lanka began voting in a critical provincial election in a formerly rebel-held region. Allegations of fraud, voter intimidation and sporadic violence marred elections in Sri Lanka's
The UN food agency said the junta had released a plane-load of cyclone aid into its custody. World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman said there had been a "misunderstanding" regarding earlier comments about the status of goods on that flight as
Buddhist temples and schools on the outskirts of the storm's trail of destruction are now makeshift refugee centres. The UN humanitarian agency said in a new assessment that between 1.2m and 1.9m were struggling to survive in the aftermath of
The document, including signatures from Myanmar nationals and Singaporeans, will be presented to various embassies. "It is imperative to act before many more lives are unnecessarily lost," said the petition calling for aid workers to enter "regardless of the lack
Myanmar has agreed to Singapore's offer to host the meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the city-state and its foreign minister is expected to attend, the Singapore-based newspaper said in a report without identifying its source.
The death toll jumped to nearly 29,000 Sunday amid warnings that malign neglect" by the military rulers, who have ruled the isolated nation with an iron fist for more than five decades, was creating a humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic
