BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged congratulatory messages from Friday to Monday respectively with his counterparts of Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties.
On behalf of the Chinese government and the Chinese people, Xi extended warm congratulations and good wishes to the governments and peoples of the six Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), which are among the first group of countries to recognize and set up diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after its establishment on Oct.1, 1949. (China-CEECs-Diplomatic Relations)
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STOCKHOLM -- Three scientists have shared 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel committee announced here on Monday.
The prize has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability," said the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. (Nobel Prize-Medicine)
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LONDON -- The London-headquartered HSBC Holdings Plc. plans to axe up to 10,000 jobs in an effort to cut costs, according to media reports on Sunday.
The layoffs account more than 4 percent of the banking titan's workforce, said the Financial Times. (UK-HSBC-Job Cut)
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HONG KONG -- A Hong Kong court on Monday heard a case against two people who were indicted for violating the anti-mask law in the first such trial after the ban went into effect on Saturday.
The Eastern Magistrates' Courts held the trial against an 18-year-old male student at the City University of Hong Kong and a 38-year-old female who claimed to be unemployed. (Hong Kong-Anti-Mask Law)
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TUNIS -- Tunisia's Islamist party "Ennahdha" (Renaissance) ranked the first in Tunisian parliamentary elections by winning 17.5 percent of the vote, said a survey on Sunday.
The survey was released by the Tunisian company Sigma Conseil and broadcast on Watanya 1. (Tunisia-Election) Enditem
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