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MANILA -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed on Sunday to China's proposed initiatives that will pave the way for launching formal negotiations on an actual Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea, a spokesman of the Philippines said.
Robespierre Bolivar, spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), said the foreign ministers of ASEAN and China support the "steps" that both sides will take to kick off the formal negotiations on the COC.
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NAIROBI -- China's massive capital injection into key sectors of the Kenyan economy coupled with technology and skills transfer has unleashed prosperity and renewal in the East African nation.
Government statistics indicate that Kenya has received soft loans and grants worth billions of dollars from China since the country gained independence five and a half decades ago.
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NANNING -- A rare ant species has been discovered in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, local authorities said Sunday.
Opamyrma hungvuong, an ancient ant species, was spotted for the first time in Guangxi by experts on an ant survey at a national reserve near Guangxi's tourist city of Guilin.
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BEIJING -- "Wolf Warrior 2," a Chinese action film, has leaped into the second place in China's all-time box office sales, surpassing "The Fate of the Furious" on Saturday.
Released on July 27, the film had raked in a total of 2.73 billion yuan as of Aug. 5 (410 million U.S. dollars).
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KHARTOUM -- Two copters of the China's first peacekeeping helicopter unit air transport advance team arrived safely at the EI Fasher Airport of the Darfur area in western Sudan.
The helicopters, carrying 15 soldiers and some two tons of cargo, took off from the Khartoum International Airport and flew four hours to the destination area over a distance of 900 km.
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SHENYANG -- Heavy rain in northeast China's Liaoning Province has killed one person and another is missing, causing a direct economic loss of about 4.2 billion yuan (620 million U.S. dollars), authorities said.
Xiuyan Man Autonomous County under Anshan City experienced heavy downpours this week, and 358,000 people suffered losses, according to Anshan publicity department. More than 1,000 houses collapsed, and bridges, roads, electricity and telecommunication facilities sustained damages. Enditem
