Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Vietnam next week amid heightened tension in the South China Sea that has weighed on ties between the neighbours. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular briefing on Thursday Xi would visit Vietnam on Nov. 5-6. Source: Reuters
The facts would go back to Thursday, and would have taken place in a class at Edouard-Branly high school in Créteil, according to Le Parisien. On the video footage filmed with Snapchat and published on social networks, we can see a high school student pointing a gun a few centimetres from a teacher’s face. Source Actu17
Two large global wealth managers have imposed restrictions on staff travel to China after a UBS Group AG employee was detained, underlining the challenges of capturing business in a country where fortunes are growing the fastest on the planet. Source Bloomberg
Leaders from Russia, Turkey, Germany and France will meet in Istanbul next week in an effort to shore up a truce preventing further violence in Syria’s last rebel-held region and bolster the political process toward ending the seven-year civil war. Source: Bloomberg
