SINGAPORE -- Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said here on Friday that Singapore supports the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and Singapore and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region have been "active participants."

Lee made the remarks during his keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 18th Shangri-La Dialogue slated on Friday to Sunday. (Singapore-PM-Belt and Road)

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NEW DELHI -- India's unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent in the 2017-18 fiscal year, officials said Friday.

The figure was released by by India's federal ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. (India-Unemployment)

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TOKYO -- Giant panda cub Xiang Xiang, which has been adored by huge flux of visitors to the Tokyo zoo, will extend its stay here and return to China by the end of 2020, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Friday.

"Thanks to the understanding of the Chinese side, people can continue seeing her," Koike told a press conference. (Japan-China-Panda)

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TOKYO -- Chen Deming, former minister of commerce of China, said here Friday that the economic structures of China and Japan are highly complementary, and that the two countries, by joining hands and combining strengths, will boost their own development and at the same time, play an even bigger role in building a more stable and prosperous Asia.

The development of Asia closely connects to and profoundly influences the trend of the world, Chen said here at the 25th International Conference on the Future of Asia. (Japan-China-Relations)

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HONG KONG -- Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) said Friday that it deplored the attempts by relevant countries to continuously interfere in the normal legislative process of the HKSAR.

A spokesperson said the commissioner's office was "gravely concerned about" a joint statement issued Thursday by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland about the HKSAR government's amendments of Fugitive Offenders Ordinance and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Ordinance. (HK-Britain-Politics) Enditem

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