Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the announcement Tuesday. Trade between the two countries had fallen by 27.8 percent.
The Global Slavery Index 2016, released Tuesday, found that India topped the list with the highest number of people in modern slavery.
The German automaker, still reeling under the effects of last year’s massive emissions scandal, reported lower-than-expected earnings.
The visit comes as South Korean officials say the isolated country’s latest attempt to fire a missile from its east coast early Tuesday appears to have failed.
President Xi Jinping congratulated Rodrigo Duterte on his election and voiced hope for better relations in the South China Sea.
Alibaba cited a circular issued by the Hebei province branch of the China Food and Drug Administration on “urgent control measures relating to drug products.”
Japan has put its anti-ballistic missile forces on alert at least twice this year after signs of launches by North Korea.
Photographs showed Disney characters, like Snow White and Captain America, at Wanda City in Nanchang, which opened Saturday in direct competition to Shanghai Disneyland.
Rodrigo Duterte was proclaimed the 16th president of the Philippines in absentia as he was in Davao, his native town in the archipelago nation's south.
Goh Chok Tong, Singapore’s emeritus senior minister, said China's growing presence in the region could result in “a more militarized South China Sea.”
The move comes just days after Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin, the chairman of the Wanda Group, said the Hong Kong-listed unit was “substantially undervalued.”
The vineyard is located on a remote plateau near the Tibetan border.
China’s trade in services should rise to $1 trillion in 2020 from $750 billion this year, Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng says.
The International Olympic Committee announced 23 athletes had tested positive in retests of 265 samples from the London Olympics.
The country’s largest private property developer opened its first theme park Saturday, three weeks before Disney is to open its first one in mainland China.
G-7 leaders wrapped up a summit in central Japan vowing to use “all policy tools” to boost demand and ease supply constraints.
The controversial ad for a detergent brand in China is far from the only culturally offensive ad in the modern era.
The price of bitcoin has reached a 20-month high after devaluation of the Chinese yuan has led to increased demand for the cryptocurrency.
The Commerce Department said U.S. gross domestic product in the first quarter grew at a 0.8 percent pace, up from the previous estimate of 0.5 percent.
The People’s Bank of China said reports it was rolling back on exchange rate reforms, or would ask the Fed for advance news of rate hikes, were irresponsible fabrications.
Police in China have detained 13 executives from a peer-to-peer lending platform and ordered the company to suspend operations, in the latest scandal to hit the sector.
The report comes at a time when several countries, including the U.S., have criticized China’s growing assertiveness in the disputed region.