HANOI -- Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Liu Yunshan said Tuesday that the stable and healthy development of Sino-Vietnamese relations is conducive to the reform and opening up of the two countries.
Liu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, arrived in Hanoi on Monday for an official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).(Vietnam-China-Ties)
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KABUL -- More than 250,000 Afghans have been displaced so far this year by conflicts and prolonged insurgency, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Tuesday.
"From Jan. 1 to Sept. 16, 2017, more than 250,000 people have fled their homes due to conflicts in Afghanistan," it said in a statement. (Afghanistan-Conflicts)
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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is gearing up to dissolve the lower house of parliament and call a snap general election, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Secretary General Toshihiro Nikai confirmed on Tuesday.
Prior to Abe's departure Monday for a five-day trip to New York to attend the UN General Assembly, Abe told Nikai during a meeting that he "will decide on the timing of the snap election after returning from the UN General Assembly on Friday."(Japan-Snap election)
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NEW DELHI -- A major fire broke out at a school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Tuesday, police said.
All 200 students of Rajaji SKD Academy in Rajajipuram area in state capital Lucknow had a narrow escape as teachers and the school authorities managed to evacuate them right on time.(India-School fire) Enditem
