Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov on Wednesday met with He Ping, the editor-in-chief of China's Xinhua news agency, and the two promised to strengthen media cooperation and exchanges to boost China-Russia relations.
China said Wednesday that it will continue to step up its anti-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan.
The upcoming state visit of Myanmar President U Thein Sein to China would certainly push the two countries' strategic and mutually beneficial cooperation towards a new high, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Li Junhua told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on the eve of the president's visit.
The Embassy of China on Wednesday donated more than 200 Chinese language books to the Confucius Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia.
China on Tuesday again called on Iran to start a new round of nuclear talks with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (G5+1) at an early date.
China's top legislator Wu Bangguo arrived in Cape Town on Tuesday, starting an official good-will visit to South Africa at the invitation of Speaker of South African National Assembly Max Sisulu.
"As you know, Afghanistan has suffered from over 30 years of war and instability and still we are suffering. The continued strife and instability has badly damaged all economic sectors including agriculture," an Afghan government official Samiullah Sami told Xinhua.
China hopes to enhance coordination with Singapore in China-ASEAN relations and regional affairs, Vice-President Xi Jinping told Singaporean former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew on Monday in Beijing.
China and Australia on Monday held the fourth China-Australia education joint work group meeting in Canberra of Australia.
No Chinese nationals were taken hostage in a terrorist attack on an air force base in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi late Sunday night, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu confirmed in a press release here on Monday.
China reaffirmed its position on the Diaoyu Islands and the East China Sea issue during a foreign ministers' meeting in Japan on Sunday, said a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman here Monday.
China is "doing very, very well" and succeeding in a highly competitive world, according to former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.