VLADIVOSTOK -- A 3- to 4-meter-high tsunami wave was observed in the Yelizovsky District of Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, following a magnitude 8.7 earthquake, local ...

China's local governments issued new bonds worth over 2.6 trillion yuan (about 365.71 billion U.S. dollars) in the first six months of this year, data from the Ministry of Finance showed on Wednesday.