(GPDN-Taipei)Teachers are highly valued, for they play a key role in making the society function well. Initiated by UNESCO and ILO in 1994, World Teachers’ Day is annually celebrated on October 5. “Invest in the future, invest in teachers” is the theme for 2014 World Teachers’ Day.
Politics
Pakistan said on Thursday it was capable of responding "befittingly" to Indian border shelling, and warned against an escalation of the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed rivals in more than a decade.
Democratic lawmakers in Hong Kong demanded anti-graft officers investigate a $6.4 million business payout to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Thursday, as political fallout grows from massive student-led protests calling for democracy in the Chinese-controlled city.
Iran and major powers are set to hold multilateral and bilateral nuclear talks in the coming days in Vienna, Iran's foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
After three days trapped in a cellar by shelling, Svetlana and Sergei Divenko left their home in eastern Ukraine and fled to Russia with their two children and a single bag.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Russian President Vladmir Putin on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing in November, the two leaders decided on Tuesday, a Japanese government official said.
Hong Kong's dwindling pro-democracy protesters relaxed blockades of key places on Tuesday, allowing some business supplies in and out, although traffic was still largely snarled and talks with the government offered little hope of a quick solution.
(GPDN-Los Angeles) On 27th September, 2014, Rowland Heights Chinese Association held its 24th Annual Fundraising Banquet at 6 pm at the Royal Vista Golf Course in the city of Walnut, California.
(GPDN-Los Angeles) On 27th September, 2014, Rowland Heights Chinese Association held its 24th Annual Fundraising Banquet at 6 pm at the Royal Vista Golf Course in the city of Walnut, California.
After weeks of defying international pleas to free eight European officials they had captured in May, pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine released them unexpectedly in June following a public appeal by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.