The Assembly

Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC), which is in charge of the indigenous C919 passenger airplane program, yesterday said it has started work on the final assembly line at Pudong New Area in Shanghai and expects it to be operational by 2012. Read More

Seven civic groups held yesterday a joint presentation and seminar to urge the National Assembly to pass the national budget bill at the Seoul Press Center. Read More

After an historic global recession pushed millions more into poverty and raised fears that the traditional system of checks and balances might fail to prevent another, the United Nations General Assembly used the main part of its sixty-fourth session to urge the creation of a more equitable multilateral structure that would see developing countries increasingly take positions of power, from the august Security Council chamber to the negotiating tables of the Bretton Woods institutions and other global decision-making forums. Read More