KATHMANDU, Nepal - Family and supporters on Sunday honored an 85-year-old Nepali man who died trying to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Qomolangma (known in the West as Mount Everest), while officials stressed the need to limit the age for such a daunting physical challenge.The death of Min Bahadur Sherchan has revived concerns about allowing elderly people to attempt to scale high peaks.Nepali law requires Qomolangma climbers to be at least 16 but there's no upper age limit."It is very necessary to immediately bring that age limit law. If there had been a limit, the lo...
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Government, groups agree on regional constitutionYANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's peace process is gaining momentum as it heads for the second meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference slated for May 24, open to all ethnic armed groups.A latest meeting of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee, chaired by State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and held late last week, has unprecedentedly agreed on self-legislation of regional or state governments, achieving a breakthrough in the political dialogue between the government and armed groups.The deal, made up of 21 agreements, will be submit...
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BEIJING -- China values relations with France and has confidence in bilateral ties, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said Monday.Emmanuel Macron won the 2017 runoff French presidential election on Sunday, defeating his rival Marine Le Pen. He will be the eighth president of the French Fifth Republic.Chinese President Xi Jinping had sent a congratulatory message to Macron, Geng said at a daily press briefing.According to Xi's message, France was the first major Western country to establish diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China.Xi said China-France relations have i...
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SEOUL - ROK President Moon Jae-in has picked special envoys to be dispatched to China, the United States, Russia, Japan and the European Union, senior presidential press secretary Yoon Young-chan said on Monday.Yoon said in a statement that Moon picked figures who can best understand his diplomatic vision and foreign policy. They are set to leave as soon as schedules are tuned up with counterparts.Moon won a landslide victory in the May 9 presidential by-election. Since his inauguration soon after the victory, the new leader had a series of phone conversations with several world leaders and pr...
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The Belt and Road Initiative has been welcomed and supported by the world's major emerging and industrial economies, as well as by international organizations, which sent high-profile representatives to the two-day Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing.The forum, which concluded on Monday, hosted representatives from more than 130 countries, which together account for more than two-thirds of the world's population and 90 percent of global GDP.Expected to help promote the common prosperity of the international community, the forum was supported by both developing ...
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