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Turkey and China will focus on joint investments and cooperation, said Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak currently visiting China. Albayrak met with Director of China National Energy Administration Nur Bekri in Beijing March 23.

Energy Minister Berat Albayrak will visit China to boost bilateral ties and investments on March 22-25. 

Albayrak will share Turkey's new energy targets and projects with high-level Chinese counterparts and elaborate potential cooperation and investment opportunities, according to ministry officials. 

China expressed its opposition on March 17 to unilateral sanctions against North Korea saying they could raise tension, after the United States imposed new curbs on the isolated country in retaliation for its nuclear and rocket tests. 

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China's foreign exchange reserves fell $28.75 billion in February, slightly less than expected and easing from a sharp slump in January, suggesting the Central Bank is scaling back its interventions to support the yuan as capital outflows ease. 

Australian and Malaysian officials were moving to retrieve and examine suspected aircraft wreckage found on the east African coast to quickly determine whether it came from missing flight MH370, Malaysia's transport minister said March 3.

A pair of giant pandas, a state gift to South Korea from Chinese President Xi Jinping, arrived in Seoul on March 3 to a red-carpet welcome.

The U.N. Security Council on March 2 unanimously approved the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades, reflecting growing anger at Pyongyang's latest nuclear test and rocket launch in defiance of a ban on all nuclear-related activity.

Suspected aircraft debris has been found on the coast of Mozambique, and Malaysia's transport minister said March 2 there was a "high possibility" it came from a Boeing 777, the same model as missing flight MH370.

The United Nations Security Council on March 2 unanimously adopted a resolution that dramatically expands existing U.N. sanctions on North Korea in response to its Jan. 6 nuclear test, a measure largely negotiated by Washington and Beijing.