Chinese authorities say they have been working with the US Department of Homeland Security to curb illegal trafficking in counterfeit goods [Xinhua]
Chinese media on Wednesday said that agents from both China and the US worked together to bring down several groups and arrest at least 36 suspects that were involved in copyright infringement.
File photo of US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping [Xinhua]
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted his US counterpart Donald Trump at the Palace Museum within the Forbidden City, a historic site at the heart of the capital Beijing on Wednesday.
The two presidents, who have at times been at odds over how to deal with North Korea, met for tea at the Hall of the Embodied Treasures in the Museum with both first ladies in attendance.
Chinese news media showed Xi giving Trump and the first ladies a tour of the other main halls in the museum.
A number of the drills between Bangladesh and India will be held in jungle and forested terrain along their border in the northeast [Xinhua]
In hopes of boosting counter-terrorism efforts across borders, India today launched a number of military drills with its neighbor Bangladesh.
The drills, titled “Exercise Sampriti”, will be held in the northeastern border states of Meghalaya and Mizoram until November 18 and be divided into two phases.
As the terrain is mountainous and is flush with jungle terrain, India’s Jungle Warfare School in Mizoram state will be involved.
In some Chinese cities in recent years, the concentration of airborne particles, called PM 2.5, averaged nine times the safe level defined by the World Health Organisation [Xinhua]
As winter quickly approaches, the Chinese capital Beijing once again finds itself in the throes of an air pollution crisis as authorities signal an orange alert for smog for the second consecutive day.
China’s color code alerts include red – as the most dangerous and lethal, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Workers make bicycle parts at a factory at Ludhina in the Indian state of Punjab. India remains one of the strongest emerging market performers, analysts agree [Xinhua]
Investments in emerging markets have been on the rebound in the past 18 months soaring to new levels despite the dollar and oil prices fluctuation, and look likely to continue their upward climb in the coming year.
Nigerian President Buhari has made sustainable energy production – particularly nuclear energ – a central goal of his administration [Xinhua]
Russia and Nigeria, two of the world’s major emerging markets, have signed a nuclear research and cooperation agreement on Tuesday.
Russia’s Rosatom official nuclear corporation said that the agreement was signed on the sidelines of the International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, held in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
The conference is held under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Markets are speculating that Trump will choose a Fed chief who will not upset the current policies of the Federal Reserve [Xinhua]
Emerging markets are hoping that US President Donald Trump will pick a replacement for Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen, whose term as chair expires in February 2018.
While she will remain on as Fed governor until 2024, and will be one of five candidates for Trump to choose from, economists in emergint markets are betting that Trump could sway toward Fed Governor Jerome Powell, who is seen as being more dovish than Yellen.
Narendra Modi has maintained that he will seek a free-trade pact with the EU [Xinhua]
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni arrived in India on Sunday to begin his two-day state visit in which he hopes to boost bilateral political and economic relations.
Gentiloni will meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday in talks that are likely to focus on improving ties that have been strained for over five years after two Italian marines shot and killed two Indian fishermen off the coast of Kerala in 2012.
Temer’s party has been beset by corruption accusation, potentially derailing his efforts to spearhead a revitalization of Brazil’s economy in 2017 [Xinhua]
Brazilian President Michel Temer is recovering in hospital from surgery to reduce the size of his prostate and is expected to be released on Monday, his doctors at Sao Paulo’s Sirio-Libanes Hospital told local media.
Temer, 77, entered hospital first on Wednesday during a session of Congress but was released the same day.
He was readmitted on Friday to continue some urologic tests, his doctors said.
The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on 25 October 2017 will be the first time that new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba will be able to put numbers to his fiscal policy. Since taking over from Pravin Gordhan in April, Gigaba has emphasized that there will be fiscal policy continuity.
South Africa remains a lucrative buy, experts at a local conference said, despite the ratings downgrade. File photo: The Mall of Africa in Midrand, near Johannesburg, South Africa [Xinhua]
