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China has become the top greenfield foreign direct investor in Saudi Arabia with investments amounting to $16.8 billion in 2023, a 1,020 percent rise from the previous year. According to Emirates NBD, China was followed by the US and the…
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Japanese and Chinese experts held talks on treated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said late Saturday, the first such talks to be announced since Tokyo began releasing the water into the ocean…
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Ambassador Dr. Saud Al-Sati, the Saudi deputy minister for political affairs, received the Iranian Ambassador to the Kingdom Alireza Enayati in Riyadh on Tuesday. The parties reviewed Saudi-Iranian relations and prominent topics of…
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China will carefully study issues of market access and cross-border data flows and will soon issue new regulations in these areas, Premier Li Qiang told an audience of global CEOs and Chinese policymakers on Sunday. “We cordially welcome…
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China’s CNOOC Ltd. has made a major oilfield discovery in the Bohai Sea, adding over 100 million tonnes of oil equivalent proved in-place volume, the state-owned oil and gas giant said on Monday. The discovery was made at the Qinhuangdao…
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Hungry McDonald’s customers in parts of Asia had trouble ordering at stores, on cellphones and at electronic kiosks on Friday after a system outage. In Japan, the US fast food giant said on X, formerly Twitter, that it was “currently…
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US intelligence agencies said on Monday the country faces an “increasingly fragile world order,” strained by great power competition, transnational challenges and regional conflicts, in a report released as agency leaders testified in…
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A US Army intelligence analyst was arrested on Thursday for allegedly providing national defense information to China. Sergeant Korbein Schultz, who held a top-secret security clearance, was taken into custody at Fort Campbell, a…
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A free climber known as the “French Spiderman” scaled a Manila skyscraper on Tuesday to support the Philippines’ maritime claims in the disputed South China Sea. Frenchman Alain Robert, who has scaled more than 150 structures worldwide,…
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Philippine foreign minister Enrique Manalo told AFP on Monday that his country wants to solve maritime disputes with China peacefully — but delivered a simple message to Beijing: “stop harassing us.” Speaking on the sidelines of an…
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