JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party gained 36 seats in Monday’s parliamentary elections, becoming once again the largest party, the Central Elections Committee said Tuesday after 97 percent of the votes have been counted. Figures by the Committee, which oversees the elections, showed Netanyahu’s main rival, Benny Gantz and his centrist Blue and White party, garnered 32 seats. …
Promoting the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind Wang Yi The COVID-19 outbreak poses both a great threat to the life and health of the Chinese people and a formidable challenge to global public health security. In the face of this major test, the Chinese people of all ethnic groups have united as one under …
Islamabad: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’s Special Envoy for Jammu and Kashmir Ambassador Yousef M. Al Dobeay said on Tuesday that the “OIC has always strongly supported the resolution of the Kashmir issue and the resolution of both Kashmir and Palestine issues stand at the top of OIC’s agenda.” He made these remarks during a press conference with Foreign …
‘China willing to maintain close liaison with Japan’ BEIJING, China – China has welcomed the signing of this agreement between the US and Taliban, which Beijing believes will act as ‘seed for peace’. Zhao Lijian, the spokesman of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made these remarks at a media briefing here on Monday. he said China has played a positive …
CHINA ECONOMIC NET BEIJING, China – The ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak in China will not affect the Chinese military’s combat training and exercises, and the military has comprehensively demonstrated its emergency-response abilities during its fight against the outbreak, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday. Senior Colonel Wu Qian said at a news conference in Beijing that the People’s Liberation …
CHINA ECONOMIC NET BEIJING, China – Manufacturers in China remain confident about business prospects for the next 12 months, even as the novel coronavirus outbreak weighed heavily on the sector last month, a private survey said on Monday. “Firms anticipate a recovery in production over the next year due to expectations that production will be ramped up once the …
BEIJING, China – With only around 15 books sold per day and half of them purchased by employees, OWSpace recently released a letter on social media platform WeChat seeking crowdfunding to support its operation. “Only one of our four bookstores has resumed operation and the customer flow was just 10 percent of normal levels,” said Wu Yanping, general manager of …
Xi inspects research facilities, listens to scientists CHINA ECONOMIC NET BEIJING, China – President Xi Jinping stressed the importance of medical research on the diagnosis and treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia on Monday. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected the Academy of Military …
WUHAN: The temporary hospital with the most beds in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in central China’s Hubei Province, has discharged a total of over 1,000 people as of Sunday, according to local authorities. The Jianghan temporary hospital, converted from Wuhan International Conference and Exhibition Center, started receiving patients from Feb. 5. It is equipped with 1,564 …
BEIJING: Chinese health authority said Monday it received reports of 202 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 42 deaths on Sunday on the Chinese mainland. All the deaths were in Hubei Province, according to the National Health Commission. Meanwhile, 141 new suspected cases were reported, said the commission. Also on Sunday, 2,837 people were discharged from hospital after …
