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The United Arab Emirates is among the top ten economies exhibiting the most progress toward gender equality since 2017, a World Bank report has revealed.

The first big diamond mined in the Arkhangelsk Region in 2020 is named after a discoverer of the Lomonosov deposit - Georgy Georgiev.

The relations between China and Myanmar are closer now than ever before, and the Southeast Asian country should think of how it can benefit from such closer ties rather than seeing relations with China in defensive terms due to big power games, a former Myanmar government advisor told the Global Times in an exclusive interview.

President Xi Jinping's scheduled state visit to Myanmar this week will deepen the two Asian economies' ties in such sectors as seafood exports, energy, basic infrastructure, finance and other labor-intensive industries, serving as drivers to fuel Myanmar's economic development, business representatives and industry observers said.

China and the U.S. officially signed the phase-one economic and trade agreement in the White House on Jan. 15, 2020 local time.

China and the United States formally signed their phase-one economic and trade agreement here on Wednesday.

Emirates Nature-WWF has set up a fundraising channel, via YallaGive - a local crowdfunding platform - through which UAE-based individuals can support the nature and wildlife of Australia.

The Defense Ministry said Wednesday it has sent two transport planes and 70 personnel of the Self-Defense Forces to join efforts to fight the devastating bushfires in Australia.

Etihad Airways today announced its commitment to a minimum target of zero net carbon emissions by 2050 and halving its 2019 net emission levels by 2035.

South Korea and Japan held working-level talks in San Francisco on Monday (U.S. time) on the ongoing row over wartime history and trade, as their top diplomats gathered there for trilateral talks with the United States, the foreign ministry said.