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Pakistan can actively use trade fairs, exhibitions in China to increase foreign reserves

BEIJING, Sept. 26 (APP): Pakistan can make active use of the China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning, China International Import Expo in Shanghai, Canton Fair in Guangzhou and other product-specific platforms exhibitions in China to increase its foreign exchange reserves, Trade and Investment Counselor, Consulate General of Pakistan in Guangzhou, China, Muhammad Irfan said.

Malaysia: Security Council veto power remains a conundrum, abolishing it the best way forward

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s call at the recent United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the veto powers of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) be abolished is the way forward in ensuring the United Nations (UN) return to its foundation.

Critics have described the veto as being the most undemocratic element of the UN, and the main cause of inaction on war crimes and crimes against humanity like seen in the protracted conflicts and crises in the world such as in Palestine, Myanmar and Ukraine.

China, Malaysia economic and trade cooperation reach new highs

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 (NNN-Bernama) — Economic and trade cooperation between China and Malaysia have hit new highs, with bilateral trade volume for the first eight months of this year reaching US$131.2 billion.

China’s Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing said this constitute an increase of 21.2 per cent year-on-year. 

Kazakhstan says it won't recognise referendums in eastern Ukraine

ALMATY, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan, one of Russia's close ex-Soviet partners, will not recognise the possible annexation of Ukraine's eastern regions by Russia through referendums held there, the Central Asian nation's foreign ministry said on Monday.

Voting took place in four Ukrainian regions mostly held by Russian forces, the start of a plan by President Vladimir Putin to annex a big chunk of Ukraine in what the West says is violation of international law that significantly escalates war in the country. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine "a special military operation". 

Tajikistan: Dushanbe, Bishkek say committed to agreement on ending confrontation

DUSHANBE, September 25. /TASS/: Peace on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan is possibly only if the sides strictly observe the peace agreements, Saymumim Yatimov, chief of Tajikistan’s State Committee on National Security, said on Sunday.

"Peace on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border will be possible if we strictly obey the protocols and documents we have signed," he said after signing a protocol on settling the situation on the border.

China's Communist Party says all delegates 'elected' for next month's key Congress under guidelines set by President Xi

Beijing, Sep 25 (PTI) The countdown for next month's key Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) began as the ruling party on Sunday announced that all delegates totalling nearly 2,300 were "elected" for the once-in-a-five year meeting in which President Xi Jinping is widely expected to get endorsed for a record third term.

Powerful typhoon prompts evacuations in northern Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon shifted and abruptly gained strength Sunday as it blew closer to the northeastern Philippines, prompting evacuations from high-risk villages and the capital, which could be sideswiped by the storm, officials said.

Typhoon Noru was swirling at sea about 115 kilometers (71 miles) east of Infanta town in Quezon province with sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles per hour) and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph) at midafternoon. Forecasters expect it to smash into the coast later Sunday.

South Korea says North Korea test-fired missile toward sea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Sunday toward its eastern seas, extending a provocative streak in weapons testing as a U.S. aircraft carrier visits South Korea for joint military exercises in response to the North’s growing nuclear threat.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile launched from the western inland town of Taechon flew 600 kilometers (370 miles) cross-country on a maximum altitude of 60 kilometers (37 miles) before landing in waters off North Korea’s eastern coast.

China-ASEAN Economic Cooperation Contributes To Development, Prosperity In Region: Cambodian Official, Experts

PHNOM PENH, Sept 24 (NNN-AKP) – The economic cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), provided a lot of benefits to all, contributing to common development and prosperity in the region, Cambodian officials and experts said.

China and ASEAN became each other’s largest trading partner in 2020.

Trade between China and ASEAN reached 544.9 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months of this year, 13.1 percent year on year, while the cumulative two-way investment exceeded 340 billion dollars, according to an official report.

China using civilian ships to enhance navy capability, reach

BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese scientific ship bristling with surveillance equipment docked in a Sri Lankan port. Hundreds of fishing boats anchored for months at a time among disputed islands in the South China Sea. And ocean-going ferries, built to be capable of carrying heavy vehicles and large loads of people.

All are ostensibly civilian ships, but experts and uneasy regional governments say they are part of a Chinese civil-military fusion strategy, little concealed by Beijing, that enhances its maritime capabilities.

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