The confrontation between illegal street vendors, food inspectors and Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene in Hong Kong has sprouted out in violent clashes. More than 100 people got injured In the brawl, 54 participants of the protest action were detained by police. The Hong Kong events have already received an informal name "Fishball Revolution." The riots broke out on Tuesday in a...

Employees of the Turkish humanitarian organizations set up the tents and distribute water and food to many thousands of refugees. The refugees are stuck on the Syrian-Turkish border because of the fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Despite the EU appeals, the Turkish border remains closed to 35,000 internally displaced persons. "We extend our activities in the Syrian territory to supply those...

A vacation dedicated to the New Year on the local calendar is starting in China next week. This year, number of Chinese tourists going abroad will reach a record - 6 million people. The slowdown of the Chinese economy has not backfired on the activity of Chinese tourists. According to China's largest tourism site Ctrip, the number of Chinese citizens making foreign voyage will increase to record...

12 countries participated in the negotiations on the establishment of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) today formally signed an agreement to establish the new trade bloc. However, term of its entry into force is not yet clear – the politicians gave formally to the ratification two years, but some differences at the country level has not yet been removed. Today, the agreement on the establishment...

The German Ministry of Finance is going to introduce limit of 5,000 euros when paying in cash. This move is justified by combating the financing of terrorism. Financiers’ plans have already been criticized in the trade and by human rights defenders. The German federal government intends to introduce restrictions on financial calculations in cash. Finance Ministry proposes to set the upper limit...

Today is the big day for Iranian banks: nine credit institutions have been returned to the world stage. Head of the country’s central bank Waliullah Saif said that on Monday, they will be connected to the system of international payments SWIFT once again. "Nine Iranian banks will be re-connected to the SWIFT system early in the morning on Monday," - said the regulator’s head. We are talking about...

Akira Amari, Japanese minister of economic recovery in Japan and its chief negotiator on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP), the large-scale project of a free trade area in the Asia-Pacific region, resigned after accusations of bribery. Pleaded guilty, the minister said that "any threat to a strong economy must be removed," and "he is not an exception." Appointed Minister of economic recovery in...

Yesterday in France, several trade unions took to the roads to protest and called for strikes. Rally of air traffic controllers was followed by halt for 20% of flights, taxi drivers blocked airports and railway stations. "Black Tuesday" was displaced by "Black Wednesday". French teachers and students, representatives of the social protection, aircraft dispatchers and taxi drivers went on rallies...

At a meeting with residents of Iowa, Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who claims to be the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, made a statement against sending American ground troops to Syria and Iraq. Mrs. Clinton said "the most important and indispensable task for the president of the United States is the desire to avoid military action," and promised to follow this...