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HARBIN, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — The number of visitors to the 23rd Harbin International Beer Festival, which kicked off on July 5, 2025, was 1.014 million, organizers of the event said, citing data as of the evening of Aug. 3.

The beer festival has become one of the most exciting cultural events of this summer in Harbin. At the festival, in an area of 400 thousand square meters, up to a thousand varieties of beer from more than 10 countries are presented, giving everyone the opportunity to find something to their taste. In addition, visitors are offered an extensive cultural program: concerts, a parade of flower platforms, fireworks, a drone show, sports competitions, exhibitions of retro cars, Russian painting and much more. Also within the framework of the festival, an open-air camp is organized, where you can relax with the whole family and drink beer.

As city authorities had previously promised, the current festival should become the largest, most international and multifaceted of all previous ones. And, apparently, the organizers are succeeding in this. -0-

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CHENGDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The World Games' main media center was officially opened Monday in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. It will serve as a "base camp" for accredited media workers during the sporting event, providing facilities and services related to work, language support, transportation, food, technology and trade to cover the competition.

CHENGDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The World Games' main media center was officially opened Monday in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. It will serve as a "base camp" for accredited media workers during the sporting event, providing facilities and services related to work, language support, transportation, food, technology and trade to cover the competition.

CHENGDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The World Games' main media center was officially opened Monday in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. It will serve as a "base camp" for accredited media workers during the sporting event, providing facilities and services related to work, language support, transportation, food, technology and trade to cover the competition.

CHENGDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The World Games' main media center was officially opened Monday in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. It will serve as a "base camp" for accredited media workers during the sporting event, providing facilities and services related to work, language support, transportation, food, technology and trade to cover the competition.

CHENGDU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The World Games' main media center was officially opened Monday in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. It will serve as a "base camp" for accredited media workers during the sporting event, providing facilities and services related to work, language support, transportation, food, technology and trade to cover the competition.

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BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — China plans to abolish fees for care and tuition of children in public kindergartens for the last year before entering primary school starting from the fall semester of 2025, according to guidelines released by the State Council on Tuesday.

According to the document, this step is aimed at effectively reducing education costs and improving the quality of educational services in the country.

Children who attend private kindergartens will also have their fees for care and education reduced in line with the reduction in fees in local public preschools.

Financial authorities will provide subsidies to kindergartens to compensate for the reduction in their income due to the new policy.

The document also calls on local authorities to further strengthen support measures for categories such as children from low-income families, orphans and children with disabilities.

Financial and educational departments at all levels should improve fund management and allocate funds in a timely manner and in full to ensure the normal operation of preschool institutions.

The recommendations also noted that China will improve its policy of providing free pre-school education in due course, taking into account factors such as changes in the number of school-age children. -0-

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BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — There were 16.1 million electric vehicle charging infrastructure facilities in China as of the end of June 2025, the Jingji Cancaobao newspaper reported, citing data from the National Administration of Energy (SAE).

The above figure includes 12 million private and 4.1 million public charging stations. By the end of June this year, the coverage rate of charging stations in China's counties had reached 97.08 percent, while the coverage rate in the country's townships and urban towns was 80.02 percent.

In the first half of 2025, a total of 54.923 billion kWh of electricity was used for charging electric vehicles in China.

According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, in the first half of 2025, China's automobile production and sales volumes were 15.621 million and 15.653 million units, respectively. As for new energy vehicles, their production and sales in the first six months of this year increased by 41.4 percent and 40.3 percent, reaching 6.968 million and 6.937 million units, respectively.

From January to June this year, China exported 3.083 million vehicles, up 10.4 percent year-on-year, while new energy vehicle exports increased 75.2 percent to 1.06 million units. -0-

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BUCHAREST, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu died on Tuesday at the age of 95, the Romanian government said.

According to health authorities, since early June 2025, I. Iliescu had been undergoing treatment in a hospital in Bucharest, where he was later diagnosed with lung cancer. In the last days of his life, his condition deteriorated sharply.

I. Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 to 1996 and from 2000 to 2004.

The Romanian government expressed deep sorrow over the death of I. Iliescu and conveyed its condolences to his family and loved ones. –0–

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Tbilisi, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili has signed a decree scheduling local government elections in the country for October 4, 2025, the presidential administration reported on Tuesday.

The election campaign officially began in the country from the moment the decree was published. According to the electoral legislation, it will last for 60 days.

Elections of local government representatives, including mayors and sakrebulo (municipal legislative bodies) deputies, will be held simultaneously in 64 cities and districts of the country.

According to available information, six political parties have announced their intention to participate in the elections to date: Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia, New Political Center – Girchi, Lelo – Strong Georgia, For Georgia, Conservatives for Georgia, and Fatherland, Language, Faith.

Local elections in Georgia are held every four years and are an important part of the political process at the regional level. –0–

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ANKARA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — A minibus carrying seasonal farm workers skidded off the road and fell into a ravine in central Turkey's Sivas province on Tuesday, killing four people and injuring 18 others, including four in critical condition.

According to local television channel NTV, the accident occurred at around 05:00 local time /02:00 GMT/ near the village of Sharkey on the Geminbeli Pass in the Sushehri region.

The driver reportedly lost control of the minibus on a mountain road while transporting farm workers from Sanliurfa province to Ordu province, where they were heading to harvest the annual hazelnut crop.

After receiving a signal about the accident, ambulance crews, firefighters, emergency response services and Turkish gendarmerie forces were promptly dispatched to the scene.

An investigation into the cause of the tragedy is underway. –0–

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NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that tariffs on U.S. imports of microchips and pharmaceuticals will be imposed "in the next week or so."

“We’ll put a small tariff on pharmaceuticals first,” Trump said in an interview with CNBC. “But in a year, a year and a half at the most, it’ll go up to 150 percent, and then to 250 percent, because we want pharmaceuticals to be made in our country.”

According to the American leader, a statement will also be made in the near future on the issue of duties on semiconductor products and microcircuits.

D. Trump added that his plans to introduce customs duties are still far from complete.

The announcement comes days after the U.S. administration imposed new tariffs on imports from a number of countries. They followed the release of a disappointing July jobs report on Aug. 1 that not only missed market expectations but also included downward revisions to employment figures for both June and May. –0–

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Moscow, August 5 (Xinhua) — The BRICS motor rally from Yekaterinburg to Moscow will take place from August 9 to 15, the organizers of the motor rally announced at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday.

The event is timed to coincide with the opening of a new section of the M-12 "Vostok" highway Dyurtyuli – Achit. The section, more than 275 km long, opened in mid-July, became a continuation of the high-speed highway from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg.

"The launch of this road is one of the key links in the implementation of the project to create the international transport corridor "West-East". Of course, the launch of this project will have a huge socio-economic effect on the entire transport system of the country," said Igor Koval, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Russian state company "Avtodor". According to him, the key objective of the motor rally is to demonstrate to foreign partners the achievements in the development of the road and transport infrastructure of Russia.

The 1,600 km route will pass through the territory of six Russian regions. During the motor rally, business and cultural events are planned, during which participants will be able to get acquainted with the industrial, investment, tourism and cultural potential of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

50 cars have applied to participate in the rally. Representatives of 20 BRICS countries and partner countries have already confirmed their participation.

As Chairman of the Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia Zhou Liqun emphasized, the upcoming BRICS motor rally is an event of high international level. He reported that many Chinese companies operating in Russia supported this project. “The motor rally is not only an example of business cooperation, but also humanitarian and cultural interaction between Russia, China and the BRICS countries. I sincerely wish that the BRICS motor rally will unite us not only as a business community, but also as true friends,” he added, proposing to make this event annual.

The main organizers of the motor rally were the National Association of Infrastructure Companies (NAIC) and the state company Avtodor. The project was supported by the BRICS Business Council, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. –0–

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TEHRAN, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — Former Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani has been appointed secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.

As noted in the report, A. Larijani was appointed to the relevant position by decree of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who heads the Supreme National Security Council.

A. Larijani served as Speaker of the Iranian Parliament from 2008 to 2020.

He is also a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and has served on the Expediency Discernment Council since 2020.

A. Larijani replaced Ali Akbar Ahmadian, who was the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council since May 2023.

On August 3, the Supreme National Security Council approved the creation of a national defense council, which will centrally review the country's defense plans and issues of increasing the potential of the Iranian armed forces.

The council is headed by the president and includes the heads of Iran's three branches of government, namely the executive, judicial and legislative branches, as well as the commanders of the armed forces and individual ministers. –0–

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