KUALA LUMPUR -- China and Japan can jointly advance the strategic relationship of mutual benefit and strive to build constructive and stable bilateral ties fit for the new era, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Thursday.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya.
Noting that China and Japan are important neighbors, Wang said the relationship between the two countries is of far-reaching significance beyond the bilateral scope. (Malaysia-China-Japan-Wang Yi)
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NEW DELHI -- The death toll in Wednesday's bridge collapse in India's western state of Gujarat rose to 15 on Thursday, even as relief and rescue works continued overnight, confirmed a local official.
He said that at least three people were still missing. Nine people were rescued from the spot of the incident and admitted to a local hospital. (India-Bridge Collapse-Deaths)
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KUALA LUMPUR -- China is ready to work with Russia to continuously promote strategic coordination and safeguard the security and development interests of both countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Thursday.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. (China-Russia-Ties)
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JAKARTA -- Indonesia's Bandung Institute of Technology, in cooperation with the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on Wednesday completed the main antenna installation for the country's first Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Global Observing System (VGOS) radio telescope at the Bosscha Observatory in Bandung, West Java Province.
The telescope project is part of a broader bilateral collaboration under the framework of the "Cooperation Plan on Jointly Promoting Cooperation within the Framework of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Global Maritime Fulcrum," signed by China and Indonesia on Nov. 16, 2022. The VGOS facility is expected to enhance scientific capacity in fields ranging from radio astronomy to Earth observation. (Indonesia-China-Telescope) ■
