Beijing, May 29 (IANS) Chinese hospitals would add more beds to cope with an expected baby boom as a result of the country’s loosened one-child policy, an official said Thursday. The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) will promulgate a set of measures to boost the capacity of health institutions to cope with the annual […]
Islamabad, May 29 (IANS) At least two soldiers were killed and three injured Thursday in a landmine blast in Pakistan’s North Waziristan province, a media report said. The landmine was planted along a roadside in Nosher Fort, Dawn online reported.
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) China’s stock index futures opened higher Thursday with the contract for settlement in June, the most actively traded, opening 12.4 points higher at 2,175.4. The contract for settlement in July went up 10 points to open at 2,163. The September contract opened 13 points higher at 2,170, and the December contract gained […]
Washington, May 29 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama’s decision to postpone the completion of the deportation policy review until August, was received with criticism by activists and scepticism by Republicans. “Now isn’t the time to be playing politics with immigration enforcement or our national security,” Michael Steel, spokesman for Republican House Speaker John Boehner, said Wednesday. […]
Islamabad, May 29 (IANS) Five Hindu children were kidnapped from Pakistan’s Balochistan province by unidentified armed men, media reported Wednesday. The children aged between five to ten years were abducted late Wednesday from Dera Allah Yar area while coming back from school, Dawn online quoted an official as saying. The kidnappers shifted the children to Sindh, […]
Washington, May 29 (IANS) US President Barack Obama has laid out a new doctrine of using “military force unilaterally” without permission when its own interests are at stake, but turning to “collective action” when Washington is not directly threatened. America would still lead using “military force unilaterally if necessary”, he told graduates at the US Military […]
Moscow, May 29 (IANS/EFE) Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris June 5, a day before attending a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings operation in World War II. “The two leaders will discuss major international and bilateral issues, including the crisis in Ukraine,” Russian presidential […]
Madrid, May 29 (IANS/EFE) Chemists Avelino Corma Canos of Spain and Mark E. Davis and Galen D.Stucky of the US will share the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the foundation that bestows the prizes in the name of Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe has announced. The three men are specialists in the […]
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) The Chinese yuan weakened 11 basis points to 6.1705 against the US dollar in its central parity Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System. In China’s foreign exchange spot market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two percent from the central parity rate each trading day, Xinhua […]
Berlin, May 29 (IANS) Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said Wednesday that his country should become a European country under the newly elected President Petro Poroshenko. Visiting Yatsenyuk was invited to a dinner by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at her Chancellery in Berlin, Xinhua quoted a statement posted on the website of the German government as […]