ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, received Seremaiah Nawalu, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade of the Republic of Vanuatu. During the meeting held in Abu Dhabi, the two ministers reviewed bilateral relations and areas of cooperation between the UAE and the Republic of …

HONG KONG / WAM About 1.44 million travellers visited the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region during the eight-day Spring Festival holiday from Feb 10-17, with 1.26 million of them coming from the Chinese mainland, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said. Speaking to the media for the first time in the Year of the Dragon, the chief executive expressed his optimism …

BEIJING / WAM China’s central bank announced its first medium-term lending facility (MLF) operation in the Year of the Dragon, continuing a streak of 15 consecutive months of net fund injections through MLF loans to maintain reasonable and ample liquidity in the banking system. According to Global Times, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has announced that a sum of …