From 1933 to 1941, around 30,000 Jewish refugees fled the holocaust in Europe for Shanghai.
Competition
is expected to grow as more of China´s top universities vie for a
market share of online students around the world. Tsinghua University
says its courses are gaining popularity and it´s aiming to offer the
best portal in Chinese.
Just
days after Beijing passed a plan to fight air pollution, its
neighboring city Tianjin has also passed a scheme to make its sky
clearer.
The
23rd Ibero-American Summit has opened in Panama City. Leaders, royalty,
and foreign ministers from Spain, Portugal and Andorra - joined their
Latin American counterparts to discuss joint economic development. But
this time the European countries are playing a different role.
A
suicide bombing has killed 16 Syrian government soldiers at a
checkpoint in a Damascus suburb, according to rebel forces. The blast in
the mainly Christian area of Jaramana comes as the United States is
urging the Syrian government to allow desperately needed food aid into
the capital after multiple reports of civilians facing hunger.
Elections
Commission (EC) of Maldives has planned to hold dialog with the
government and political parties on Sunday to finalize the date of the
presidential election that should have been held on Saturday as planned.
China
is likely to expand its property tax trials amid recent hikes in home
pricesin many cities, the Beijing-based Securities Daily reported on
Sunday.
Spain´s
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said here on Saturday that his country is
beginning to get out of the serious economic crisis as a result of a
deep plan of structural reforms to improve the outlook.
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general aviation industry is developing at a rapid pace. But the sector
is lacking thousands of pilots to help the industry take off.
