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The Chinese exchange rate for the yuan fell over 1% overnight even as Peoples’ Bank of China (PBOC) officials tried to stem the decline with verbal and monetary support.

Children, elderly survivors and delegates representing 100 countries were in the crowd with many placing flowers in front of the cenotaph at Peace Memorial Park, as doves were released into the air. Almost everything around it was incinerated by a wall of heat up to 4,000 degrees...

Around 1 000 protesters had gathered at the mission to push for reparations ahead of Saturday’s 70th anniversary of the end of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.

A damaged vehicle is seen at the site of the massive explosions at a warehouse in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality. It’s not know exactly what chemicals were stored at the facility.

The National natural disaster Bureau said the first blast was the equivalent of 3 tons of TNT, and the second 21 tons.

HONG KONG (AP) – World stock markets rebounded Thursday as the fall in the Chinese yuan slowed and the country’s central bank tried to dampen speculation of further devaluation.

Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose on a weaker US dollar.

Beijing on Friday narrowly won an IOC vote for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games that secured its place in sporting history. The result of the first vote was not disclosed.

Hence the 4 percent fall in China’s yuan in the last two days will not change the course of business dynamics between the two nations majorly.

The move was carried out to make the yuan more market-oriented. Malaysia’s ringgit and the Indonesia rupiah plunged to their lowest levels in 17 years.

Vietnam allowed the nation’s currency, the dong, to trade in a wider range, adding flexibility which could insulate the country’s exporters from China’s moves, while the Malaysian ringgit and the Indonesian rupiah both fell to their lowest levels since the 1998...

Exchange rates are among many issues likely to be on the agenda for September’s planned visit to Washington by China’s President Xi Jinping.

Kuala Lumpur: Beijing on Friday narrowly won an IOC vote for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games that secured its place in sporting history. Now, Beijing will be the first do it – and in the span of just 14 years. “You are taking a lot of assumptions….”

The old Google that dominates the search engine market and brought us Chrome and YouTube has been somewhat demoted to one of many subsidiary companies under Alphabet – the brand new parent company of Google applications and services, experimental projects, and investing...

“China has already figured out how ASEAN works on the South China Sea, it knows how to divide us”.