The foreign trade of Uzbekistan increased by 27% to $9.4B in 2018, compared to the previous year, the Uzbek statistics committee reports.
Chicago welcomed more than 57.7M tourists in 2018, earning more than $16B from tourist expenditures, the annul tourism report compiled by the Chicago Mayor's Office shows.
The Japanese consumer prices increased 0.8% in March after a 0.7% increase in February, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications reports.
Laos expects exports to China to increase to $1,510M in 2019, while imports to decline to $985M, the latest projections from the Lao Ministry of Industry and Commerce show.
US business inventories reached $2.02T in February, an increase of 0.3% from January, a report published by the US Census Bureau shows.
The US Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reports better regional manufacturing conditions in April based on the results of the Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has provided around $268M for Belt and Road science and technology projects since the year 2013, the CAS President Bai Chunli says.
Myanmar's trade with other countries reached $4.83B in the current fiscal year, an increase from $4.64B the prior year, the Commerce Ministry reports.
The export of tuna to China from Vietnam surged 771% in the first two months of 2019, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers reports.
Emerson Electric, headquartered in the US, has opened a $17.1M research and development centre in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, the local government reports.
Trade between Russia and China reached $24.2B in the first quarter of 2019, an increase of 9.8% compared to the same period the prior year, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce reports.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un plan to discuss bilateral ties and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
According to the Sunday Times report, a senior member of UK's Prime Minister Theresa May's Tory Party would tell her in the upcoming week to resign.
According to a poll by El Pais newspaper, the Spanish Socialist Party has increased its lead by 28.8%-30% ahead of April 28 general election.
On Saturday, North Korea slammed the remarks, made by the US National Security Advisor John Bolton, about DPRK not showing interest in denuclearisation.
Germany's Leica Camera has moved to distance itself from the promotional video, that showed democracy demonstrators at the Tiananmen Square amid social media backlash.
Macedonians began voting on Sunday in a presidential election. However, the election was dominated by splits over the country's name change.
Ukrainians went to the poll on Sunday to vote in the country's presidential election, as surveys showed that Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political novice, is expected to defeat incumbent Petro Poroshenko.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo stated on Friday that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) allowed to take cultural exchanges with China to a completely new level.
According to the Irish government data, the number of people flowing through the country's airports in 2018 has increased by 6.1%, reaching 36.5M people.
On Saturday, China has successfully launched the first BeiDou Navigation Satellite System 3 (BDS-3) satellite into space which would improve the service for the Asian-Pacific Region.
On Sunday, world leaders started to arrive in Beijing for the Belt and Road initiative summit to find an agreement on the project financing.
The results of a poll published in the El Mundo newspaper showed that Spanish Socialists could get 30.3% of votes, thus getting nearly 130 sets in the country's 350-seat parliament.
According to a report published by the Sunday Times, a senior member of the ruling Conservative Party is expected to call Theresa May to quit her post by the end of June or she would face another vote of confidence.