Last Updated: Sunday, March 22, 2015, 20:21
Historians may record March 2015 as the moment when China`s chequebook diplomacy came of age, giving the world`s number two economy a greater role in shaping global economic governance at the expense of the United States and the international financial institutions it has dominated since World War Two.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 18:45
Ukraine`s central bank chief said on Tuesday that the strife-torn country`s economy contracted by 7.5 percent in 2014 while inflation soared in a year more painful than any since World War II.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 19:08
Britain is to pay back all of its World War I debts, worth some 1.9 billion pounds through a refinancing deal involving the issue of new bonds, finance minister George Osborne said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 21:33
Amid an escalating diplomatic standoff between China and Japan, Chinese researchers have vowed to come out with facts about Japanese "atrocities" during World War II.
Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 12:04
Bomb disposal experts successfully detonated a 250 kg World War-II bomb in a western Germany city after about 5,000 people were evacuated late Thursday evening, a city spokesman said.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 10:34
Actor George Clooney says he had fun while shooting for films which didn`t work at the box office.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 18:11
Russia on Monday marked the 70th anniversary of the breaking of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II that saw more than a million people starve to death.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 17:06
Japan`s top government spokesman today defended the new head of public broadcaster NHK for his remarks that the use of women as military prostitutes was common worldwide during World War II.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 11:48
Chinese ships sailed through disputed waters off Tokyo-controlled islands on Monday, days after Japan`s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caused an international stir by comparing Sino-Japanese relations with the run-up to World War One.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 09:21
China has hit back at Japan`s Prime Minister over a claim that current tensions in East Asia are akin to those between Britain and Germany on the eve of World War I.
Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 15:13
An Israeli draft law that would criminalise the use of the word Nazi in most cases has sparked a debate on freedom of speech in a state that was founded out of the ashes of the Holocaust.
Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 13:49
A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander returned and persuaded him to surrender, has died in Tokyo aged 91.
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