Neutral observers should be sent to the Caucasus to promote a peaceful resolution of conflicts in the region.

Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) World Youth Day (WYD) has strengthened the faith and encouraged the response of the youth to their vocations. The Diocese of Hong Kong continues to reap fruits from WYD. According to a report from the Kong

Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) The Redemptorist missionaries in Thailand are working in the local community, living in the midst of difficulties, lack of resources, facilities, and personnel. Among some of their objectives is to help the Church in Laos in her

Olli Rehn: in other words, everything that has happened in recent weeks has only strengthened Turkey’s strategic importance from the EU’s point of view

During the visit, the Turkish President will meet with some heads of state and the UN Secretary-General.

Aram Hamparian: the Bush Administration refuses to apply any meaningful pressure on Turkey to lift its illegal blockade of Armenia.

The Ministers are expected to focus on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

Vadim Dubnov: Azerbaijan knows that it can get into trouble by counting on one country and damaging the interests of another.

71 people died and 268 were wounded in 2008," Sova center said.

Armenia has fixed considerable progress in strengthening its statehood and its image on the international arena, the RF President’s message says.

Turkish MFA: a new era of Armenian-Turkish relations has come.

Software giant IBM and Swedish automaker Volvo are among the latest batch of Fortune 500 companies doing business in China that plan to set up trade unions in the country, a senior union official said on Friday. Yang Honglin, head

China should further upgrade its rural financial service system to bolster economic development in such areas and improve the lives of farmers, said a People's Bank of China report released late on Friday. The central bank's "China rural financial service

An electrical accident left HuangYangguang armless, but dancing changed his life. The 31-year-old was born in a mountain village in south China'sGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and lost his arms at five. As he grew up, he learned to write, paint,

The Bank of China is to buy a 20-percent stake in La Compagnie Financiere Edmond de Rothschild for 236 million euros (342 million U.S. dollars). Compagnie Financiere Edmond de Rothschild, the French fund-management unit of privately-held bank LCF Rothschild Group,

China's better-off southern city of Guangzhou on Friday night unveiled a sci-tech museum, the largest of its kind in the world. With a floor area larger than Beijing's Tian'anmen Square, the steel-structured main building of the Guangdong Science Center features

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has said the pipeline designed to transport Turkmenistan's natural gas to China would go into operation as scheduled, according to news reports from Ashgabat Friday. Berdymukhamedov made the remarks Thursday when inspecting the pipeline project, Turkmenistan's

China is willing to work with Thailand to strengthen substantive cooperation in all fields and promote bilateral friendship between the two nations and militaries, according to Defense Minister Liang Guanglie here Saturday. He made the remarks when meeting with visiting

The Shenzhou VII spacecraft and its carrier rocket were assembled on Thursday evening, the latest step toward the launch of China's third manned space mission. Drinking water (about 2.5 kg for each of the three crew members), food, traditional Chinese

Rescuers found the bodies of five workers, who were among more than 30 miners trapped in a coal mine accident early Saturday morning in Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Rescuers said a fire suddenly broke out under the mine