China National Offshore Oil Corp., the country’s third-largest oil and gas company, declined to comment on reports it is holding talks to buy as much as 9 billion US dollars of BP Plc’s assets in South America.
China's state news agency Xinhua has launched a 24-hour global news channel in English. Officials said CNC World would present an international vision with a China perspective.
British Conservative MP Elainor Laing is the new chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Gibraltar Group, a House of Commons spokesman announced Wednesday night. Mrs Laing is no stranger to the Rock as she attended the main National Day rally when it was organised in Casemates Square.
Hollywood Academy Award winning actress Meryl Streep is planning a reunion with her Mamma Mia! director, Phyllida Lloyd: Streep is in talks to play controversial former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on his first-ever tour of Latin America proposed a free trade agreement with Mercosur after meeting Wednesday in Brasilia with his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva and giving a conference at the Foreign Ministry seat in Itamaraty Palace.
International tourist arrivals grew by 7% in the first four months of 2010 according to the latest issue of the United Nations World Tourism Organization World Tourism Barometer.
Damascus will continue to maintain ties with the countries south of the US, regardless of Washington's objections
General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre Jr. told analysts Tuesday that the automaker has changed since bankruptcy from a “shell-shocked” and “overly complicated company” to a sharply focused one that has a clearer sense of its global strengths and a passion to win back customers in the United States.
China and Taiwan have signed a historic trade pact, seen as the most significant agreement since civil war split the two governments 60 years ago. The Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement (ECFA) removes tariffs on hundreds of products. It could boost bilateral trade that already totals 110 billion US dollars a year.
The US dollar is an unreliable international currency and should be replaced by a more stable system, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in a report released Tuesday.