BEIJING, Sep 14 (APP): Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has increased student discount from 10 percent to 15 percent and an additional 7 percent discount on surcharge making a total discount of around 22 percent on the flights between Pakistan and China.
The national flag carrier has also increased baggage allowance upto 80 kilograms for the students, an official of the airline told APP here on Wednesday.
TAIPEI/FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The United States is considering options for a sanctions package against China to deter it from invading Taiwan, with the European Union coming under diplomatic pressure from Taipei to do the same, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
The sources said the deliberations in Washington and Taipei's separate lobbying of EU envoys were both at an early stage - a response to fears of a Chinese invasion that have grown as military tensions escalate in the Taiwan Strait.
SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The 54th ASEAN Economic Ministers' meeting (54th AEM) and related meetings kicked off here on Wednesday, discussing the progress of economic community integration, post-COVID-19 economic recovery, and rising global inflation, among others.
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group.
Wearing a blue suit and a face mask, Xi was met on the airport tarmac by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and an honor guard, all of whom wore masks.
Xi’s trip underlines the importance Beijing places on asserting its role as a regional leader amid tension with Washington, Japan and India.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 (NNN-Bernama) — Inflation and supply chain disruptions are deemed the biggest risks over the next 12-18 months in Emerging Asia (EA), but Southeast Asian economies will increasingly benefit from supply chain diversification, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
Moody’s senior vice-president Jacintha Poh said given the supply chain disruptions, multinational corporations (MNCs) have indicated a rising intention to relocate more manufacturing away from China.
PUTRAJAYA, Sept 13 (NNN-Bernama) — Twenty-nine Malaysians who were victims of fake job scams in Cambodia will be brought back to Malaysia in stages beginning end-September.
They are currently being detained by the immigration authorities in Cambodia.
Malaysian Ambassador to Cambodia Eldeen Husaini Mohd Hashim said the whole process would take up to October.
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Pope Francis begged for an end to Russia’s “senseless and tragic war” in Ukraine as he arrived Tuesday in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan to join faith leaders from around the world in praying for peace.
BEIJING, Sept 12 (APP): To help flood-hit people in Sukkur, Sindh province, the PKM project team led by China State Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (CSCEC) promptly purchased a large number of local necessities such as rice, grain, oil and sugar, and distributed among the 800 nearby flood victims.
Villagers are in desperate need of medical help in the aftermath of the floods, which have caused outbreaks of diarrhoea, skin and respiratory infections, malaria, dengue fever and other diseases.
BEIJING, September 12. /TASS/: China is ready to work together with Russia in order to jointly safeguard common interests, a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, director of the general office of the CCP Central Committee’s Central Foreign Affairs Commission, Yang Jiechi, said at a meeting with Russia’s ambassador to China Andrey Denisov on Monday.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 (NNN-BERNAMA) – Malaysia’s palm oil stocks rose 18.16 percent from the previous month to 2.09 million tonnes in Aug, official data showed today.
According to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board, the world’s second largest palm oil producer, saw its crude palm oil production grow 9.67 percent month on month, to 1.73 million tonnes in Aug.
Palm oil exports slipped 1.94 percent month on month to 1.3 million tonnes in the same month.
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