The EU has launched legal proceedings in the World Trade Organisation against Chinese legislation that it says undermines the intellectual property rights of European companies.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development and China have signed an agreement to finance a project that aims to reduce poverty and improve incomes for 339,561 smallholder farmers in the Qinba Mountains in south Shaanxi
The International Fund for Agricultural Development and Ant Financial Services Group have signed a Joint Declaration of Intent to explore ways to contribute to economic development in rural areas and the reduction of rural poverty in China and other developing countries.
Last year saw a small drop in the overall number of executions around the world, large numbers of death sentences were carried out for non-violent crimes such as drug offences.
The unexpected release of an imprisoned North Korean woman offers a rare glimpse of hope that the authorities in the repressive state may be loosening their iron grip on the population, Amnesty International said.