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The Third World Conference on Overseas Chinese and Chinese Business opened in Beijing on 30 October. Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the United Front Work Department, attended the opening ceremony. He said that China's economic and social development has made historic achievements and historic changes, and that the fundamentals of long-term positive conditions have not changed. More than 400 overseas Chinese representatives from more than 400 countries and regions around the world attended the conference.

This September, members of the Misericordia University Speech-Language Pathology program attended two separate conferences in Katowice, Poland, and London…

From the blog of David Newman at The Times of Israel

Shui-meng, wife of Sombath Somphone, has launched a book on the ninth anniversary of his disappearance

UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER, together with many partners from the space, Earth observations, and civil protection communities, and regional and international organizations have conducted a variety of efforts since June 2014 as a way of spearheading efforts regarding the incorporation of the use of space-based technologies and applications and Earth observation in the context of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030.