China will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening-up this month. Its neighbour Vietnam has a similar political system and is implementing its own version of economic reform (Doi moi, in Vietnamese). For Vietnamese Ambassador to China H. E. Mr Dang Minh Khoi, reform and opening-up...more

Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government, Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies Heads of International Organizations, Your Excellencies Heads of Delegations, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, In May 2017, I announced China’s decision to hold the China International Import Expo (CIIE) starting from 2018. Today, after more...more

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho will visit China from Thursday to Sunday to enhance China-North Korea communication on the Korean Peninsula issue, China's Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang made the announcement at a press conference on Tuesday. Ri will meet with Chinese...more

China has released a trial regulation requiring workplaces and farmers' organizations to establish branches of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as part of efforts to consolidate the organizational foundation of the Party's long-term governance. The regulation was reviewed by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee...more

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday kicked off his visit to Spain, the first state visit to the country by a Chinese president in 13 years. The visit is expected to further promote the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) and consolidate ties with the continent. According to Chinese...more

"It's Official: China's E-Commerce King Is a Communist," claimed The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, as if it unveiled a startling discovery. Earlier the same day, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) published a list of 100 individuals who made outstanding contributions to China's reform...more

The National Council of Municipal Health Secretaries and the National Front of Brazilian Mayors warned rightwing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro of the imminent, irreparable damage to the population’s health, as a consequence of Cuba leaving the More Doctors program. In a joint statement, the two organizations lamented the suspension...more

Boticario is a town lost in the vast northeast of Brazil, in the municipality of Santo Amaro de Brotas, close to the Aracaju coast in the State of Sergipe, more than 1,600 kilometres from the capital, Brasilia. It is hard to say if the President-elect of the country,...more

It was September of 1973, in the province of Quang Tri, Vietnam. The “land of steel” smelled of gunpowder; you could still feel the war’s cruelty. The Vietnamese people continued to struggle for independence and freedom, but Quang Tri was liberated territory and Fidel, in the name of...more

The men and women who study medicine in Cuba do not focus mainly on curing disease, as is customary around the world, but rather on preventing it, preserving the health of individuals, families, and communities, as well as the environment; and wherever they work, they win the respect...more

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against the rising trend of protectionism and unilateralism as he delivered a keynote speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea, on Saturday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. Chinese and foreign representatives who attended...more

As cooperation and political trust improve, China and the Philippines agreed on Tuesday to lift ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperation relations while stressing the need to manage disputes in the South China Sea through "friendly negotiations." The decision was announced after visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting...more

I came across The New York Times article by Philip P. Pan, The land that failed to fail, when my fellow colleague shared it on social media. After carefully reading it, I was amused by the way the headline was crafted. With the headline's double-negative way of wording,...more

Pyongyang, November 16 (KCNA). Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the test ground of the Academy of Defence Science and supervised a...more

At the New Economy Forum 2018 in Singapore on Tuesday, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan said that both China and the US will gain from working together and lose from confrontation. "We are ready to discuss and work for a solution on trade that is acceptable to both...more