The attack started at midday when a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a car bomb into the gate of Counter Part International in Shahr-e-Naw, a business district in central Kabul. Five gunmen were killed inside the agency's premise during a counter-attack conducted by Afghan elite police forces.
The audience spilled out from the designated seating area and into the walkway at one particularly popular morning session at the World Travel Market trade fair in London on Monday.
The beginning of 2018 witnessed satisfying business performances presented by China's State-owned enterprises, including central SOEs, which demonstrates a promising prospect for the whole year, the head of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said on Saturday."During January and February, total revenues of central SOEs hit 4.1 trillion yuan (8 billion), up 10.9 percent over the same period last year, and their profits reached 266.7 billion yuan, up 22.6 percent year-on-year. The figures are good signs showing a promising whole year," said Xiao Yaqing, head of the SASAC, at a press conference.Xiao noted that this year SOEs will step up efforts to pursue steady growth while focusing more on quality and corporate performance. Central SOEs should focus on their core businesses and shoulder more responsibilities for key and strategic projects, Xiao said."In terms of supervision, we will have a strict assessment system to push those enterprises to achieve their annual goals," Xiao said.According to Xiao, in 2017, SOEs had just handed in the best performance for the past five years. Total sales revenues from SOEs reached 50 trillion yuan, growing 14.7 percent on a year-on-year basis, and profits surged 23.5 percent to 2.9 trillion yuan.Meanwhile, major projects, that are mostly constructed by SOEs, made great progress."Led by these enterprises, numerous innovative projects, such as major aerospace projects, have also come to fruition with positive outcomes," Xiao said.
The authorities have also examined companies and individuals that manufacture or sell hazardous chemicals, mine explosives and fireworks to root out safety hazards, and have formulated industry standards to better regulate them, he said.
The average investment volume for each project is around 3.8 billion yuan. The projects will be mainly located in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces besides Chongqing, the host city of the 2020 Smart China Expo.
The author is chief of China Daily's EU Bureau in Brussels.
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The banker made the remarks on the sidelines of the second BRICS Sherpa meeting, held in Qingdao, Shandong province. The Sherpa meeting was aimed at preparing for the summit-senior diplomats from BRICS member countries who are in charge of coordination are called Sherpas.
The baby boy was allegedly buried alive in the village of Nanbaita village in Jinan, Shandong province in late August and later saved by villagers.
The beautiful and penetrating sound of pipa, guzheng and erhu, traditional Chinese folk instruments with the grandeur for a Western orchestra, were perfectly combined during the performance of Music From China: East Meets West, performed at Bard College's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in New York's Hudson Valley on Sunday.
The bill also came one day after the US Senate blocked two competing bills, backed by the White House and Democrats respectively, to reopen the government. The deep divide within the Republican party, coupled with a disruption of air traffic to New York City due to understaffed aviation monitor agencies, put increasing pressure for the president to depart from his position.