Category: International News

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 (APP):Pakistan has called for stepped up international cooperation among countries of origin, transit and destination to fight the “egregious crime” of trafficking in persons. “Growing conflicts, economic inequality and the widening gap between the rich and the poor provide fertile ground to those who exploit human suffering,” Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi,… Continue reading Pakistan urges redoubling of global efforts to fight trafficking in persons

NEW YORK, Nov 24 (APP):Saudi Arabia expects to recover around $100 billion from about 200 princes and businessmen implicated in a sweeping crackdown on corruption as most of them are agreeing to settlements under which they hand over assets to the government, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said. In an interview with The New… Continue reading S Arabia hopes to recover $100 bln from detained princes, businessmen in graft probe: Crown Prince

BEIJING, Nov 24 (APP):A Chinese company based in Laiyang has exported two new energy buses to a customer in Pakistan. The new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturer Shuchi Bus Company’s buses have now been exported to 24 different countries, including Russia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Algeria, China Daily reported. Shuchi Bus Company is just the… Continue reading Laiyang-made new energy buses exported to Pakistan

BEIJING, Nov 24 (APP):The Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh has warned that Chinese citizens who travel to Bangladesh should raise their safety awareness after receiving calls for help from Chinese workers claiming they were detained in the country. The Chinese workers who went to Bangladesh for work in equipment maintenance and installation claimed that they were… Continue reading Chinese citizens traveling to Bangladesh asked to raise safety awareness

BEIJING, Nov 24 (APP):The delegates at the first Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network forum held here agreed to set up a steering committee and a secretariat and announced plans for non-governmental cooperation among the countries in the next three years, marking a new stage for the network. The network was established keeping in view the… Continue reading Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network forum announces plans for next three years

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 (APP):Conditions in Myanmar’s troubled northern Rakhine state “are not in place to enable safe and sustainable returns” of more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees who fled violence to Bangladesh since late August, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. Reacting to reports of an agreement between the governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar… Continue reading Conditions not yet in place for safe Rohingya returns -UN

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 (APP):The head of the Vienna-based United Nations nuclear watchdog Thursday confirmed that Iran was implementing its nuclear-related commitments, saying the agency has access to all sites it needs to inspect. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano made the remarks in a statement to a meeting of the agency’s… Continue reading UN nuclear watchdog says it has access to all sites in Iran

BEIJING, Nov 23 (APP):Chinese companies are carrying out more than 20 railway projects overseas including Pakistan, with a total investment of 100 billion yuan ($15 billion), China’s railway authorities said. Zhu Zhexun, chief engineer of China Railway International Group, said construction is underway on projects including the China-Laos railway, a railway linking the Indonesian capital… Continue reading Chinese companies carrying out 20 railway projects overseas

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23(APP):The US sugar industry is accused of closing a study in the 1960s that linked sugar consumption to heart diseases, media reports said on Wednesday citing uncovered historical documents. According to the report in the New York Times, a recent investigation conducted by the University of California and published in the journal PLOS… Continue reading The US sugar industry is accused of closing a study in the 1960s that linked sugar consumption to heart diseases

CHICAGO, Nov 23 (APP):The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, has launched an endowed chair established to honour the legacy of late Professor Zia Hassan, a Pakistani-American educationist who served at the Institute’s Stuart School of Business for 54 years. It is the first time that an endowed chair has been set up in the… Continue reading Chair establish at Chicago institute to honour memory of Pakistani-American educationist

BEIJING, Nov 22 (APP):Some 38 billion messages are sent everyday via WeChat, according to a report published by Tencent Holdings, the owner of the popular messaging app. That’s up 25 percent over a year ago, furthering narrowing the gap with WhatsApp’s daily volume of 55 billion messages. Thanks to better internet connectivity and bandwidth, WeChat’s… Continue reading WeChat users send 38 billion messages daily: Report

BEIJING, Nov 22 (APP):There are some 228,327 professional journalists in China currently, according to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. The latest report says that 134,250 journalists are working for television, radio and film production; whilst only 1,151 serve news websites. The rest are employed by newspapers, magazines and news agencies.… Continue reading China home to over 200,000 journalists