JAKARTA — China and Japan ought to work collectively to construct a bilateral relationship that meets the wants of the brand new period, Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs Wang Yi mentioned right here on Friday.
While assembly with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on the sidelines of a sequence of ASEAN international ministers’ conferences, Wang mentioned that this 12 months marks the forty fifth anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, which stipulated in legislation that the 2 nations ought to adhere to peace, friendship and cooperation, and established timeless ideas and instructions for bilateral exchanges. (Japan-China-Wang Yi)
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BANGKOK — Thailand’s parliament will maintain its second vote for a brand new prime minister on July 19 after the earlier nomination didn’t safe majority help, National Assembly President Wan Muhamad Noor Matha confirmed on Friday.
This got here after Move Forward Party chief Pita Limjaroenrat, the one candidate nominated as prime minister in a joint sitting of parliament, acquired solely 324 votes in favor on Thursday, wanting the straightforward majority required to change into prime minister. (Thai-Parliament-PM-Vote)
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PHNOM PENH — The ongoing cooperation with China is crucial to assist shield critically endangered Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphins in Cambodia, a senior official mentioned on Thursday.
Phay Somany, deputy director of the Fisheries Conservation Department on the Fisheries Administration of Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, mentioned the dominion is prepared to be taught expertise from China’s conservation of the Yangtze finless porpoise. (Cambodia-China-Dolphins Protection)
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PHNOM PENH — Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Friday inaugurated a memorial for the useless of World War I between 1914 and 1918.
Situated at a public park in entrance of the French embassy within the capital Phnom Penh, the memorial is devoted to Cambodian and French troopers who had sacrificed their lives throughout the battle. (Cambodia-France-Memorial)