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March 12, 2017 12:50 PM

China's population to peak to 1.45 billion by 2030

China's population is expected to peak to 1.45 billion in 2030, then drop to 1.4 billion by 2050 and 1.1 billion by the end of this century. Stating this, deputy head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, Wang Peian, said in Beijing that China's working age population betw...

March 12, 2017 12:15 PM

China conclude 45,000 graft cases in 2016, implicating 63,000 people

China implicated 63,000 people in 45,000 graft cases in 2016. A work report of the Supreme People's Court today said the defendants included 35 former officials at the provincial and ministerial level or above, and 240 at the prefectural level.<br/><br/>The report said Courts at all...

March 12, 2017 11:30 AM

South Korean EC says fresh Presidential election to be held in May 9

South Korea's Election Commission says fresh Presidential election to choose a successor of ousted leader Park Guen-hye will be held latest by May 9. <br/><br/>This was stated by Chairman of the commission Kim Yong-Deok in a televised speech in Seoul. A Constitutional Court had dism...

March 12, 2017 11:30 AM

Germany shuts down shopping mall over terror attack threat

German police have sealed off a major shopping centre in the central city of Essen, citing the threat of a terror attack.<br/><br/> In a statement, local police said they have concrete information regarding a possible attack and the shopping centre will be closed all Saturday. Though the...

March 12, 2017 11:12 AM

Iraqi forces say mass grave of 500 people at Badoush prison

Iraqi forces say they found a mass grave containing the remains of about 500 people at Badoush prison near Mosul yesterday. <br/><br/>Iraqi forces say they found a mass grave containing the remains of about 500 people at Badoush prison near Mosul yesterday. <br/><br/>The forc...

March 12, 2017 9:45 AM

China warns US President Trump over trade war

China has warned US President Donald Trump that any trade war between the two countries will bring nothing but harm. <br/><br/>China's Commerce Minister Zhong Shan told this to reporters on the sidelines of the Parliament session in Beijing amid concerns that Trump may hike tariffs ...

March 12, 2017 9:44 AM

Dutch govt are Nazi remnants, fascists : Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the Dutch Government as Nazi remnants and fascists, amid a diplomatic row over a cancelled rally. <br/><br/>Turkey's Family Minister was also blocked from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam as the spat between the two nat...

March 11, 2017 1:58 PM

US Justice Dept urged to treat ethnic attacks as hate crimes

In the United States, 67 US lawmakers have urged the Department of Justice to treat the attacks against ethnic minorities like Indian-Americans as hate crimes and called on President Donald Trump to end his inflammatory rhetoric. The lawmakers, led by senior Democratic leader Joe Crowley and Indian-...

March 11, 2017 8:05 AM

India snubs new UN chief, rejects mediation on Kashmir issue

India has again reiterated that only a bilateral solution to the Kashmir issue is possible, amid indications that the new United Nations (UN) secretary general Antonio Gutterres was looking at ways to break the deadlock between the two nations.<br/><br/>Responding to reports that Guterre...

March 11, 2017 8:02 AM

Putin & Erdogan vow cooperation to help end Syria war

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a truce in Syria is being observed on the whole, while welcoming his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow. Russia and Turkey, which back opposing sides in Syria's war, co-brokered a ceasefire in December that helped reduce the scale of fig...

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