65438+10.2, the international crude oil futures price broke through the 100 mark for the first time.

65438+1On October 7, an explosion occurred in a cold storage in Lichuan City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. (See "Current Affairs" in this issue for details.

654381October 9, the Central Election Commission of Georgia announced that former President Saakashvili won the presidential election.

65438+1On October 22nd, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.75 percentage points, reducing the federal funds rate, that is, the overnight lending rate of commercial banks, from 4.25% to 3.5%. On October 30th, 65438/kloc-0, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.5 percentage points.

65438+1On October 24th, Societe Generale, the second largest bank in France, said that Keviel, a futures trader of the bank, used bank funds for illegal transactions without authorization in the past year, resulting in a loss of 4.9 billion euros.

65438+1On October 27th, former Indonesian President Suharto passed away. On October 28th, 65438/KLOC-0, the Indonesian government held a state funeral for Suharto.

On October 28th, 65438/KLOC-0, US President Bush delivered his 2008 State of the Union address in Congress. This is Bush's last State of the Union address. In 2008, the US presidential primary election began at the beginning of 65438+ 10.

65438129 October, samak sundaravej, Chairman of the People's Power Party, who was elected Prime Minister at the meeting of the House of Commons in Thailand, accepted the Royal Decree and officially became the 25th Prime Minister in Thai history.

On February 7, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States Congress passed an economic stimulus bill of about $654.38+068 billion to stimulate consumption and prevent the US economy from falling into recession. President Bush signed the bill on February 6, 2003.

On February 13, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd moved a motion to Parliament on behalf of the government to formally apologize for the harm caused to the indigenous people by Australia's white Australia policy in the past.

15 In February, the current Serbian President boris Tadic was sworn in as the new president.

On February 17, 2007, the Kosovo Assembly held a special meeting and adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring Kosovo an "independent sovereign state" of the Republic of Serbia.

19 February, Fidel Castro of Cuba announced that he would no longer serve as Chairman of the State Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. On February 24th, Cuba's National People's Power Congress (Parliament) elected a new Council of State and Council of Ministers, with Raul Castro as its chairman.

On February 20th, the European Parliament ratified the Lisbon Treaty.

From February 25th to 27th, New York Philharmonic visited Pyongyang. This is the first American symphony orchestra to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since its founding 60 years ago.

On February 28th, former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to China, ending his overseas life since the military coup in Thailand in September 2006.

On February 29th, the South Korean National Assembly approved Han Seung-soo as Prime Minister. He officially took office that afternoon.

On March 7, the Russian Central Election Commission announced the election results, and Medvedev was elected as the new president.

On March 9th, Xinhua News Agency reported that according to the election results of Pakistan National Assembly and Provincial Assembly held on February18th announced by Pakistan Election Commission, the People's Party took the lead.

On March 13, Sudanese President Bashir and Chadian President Deby signed a peace agreement in Dakar to resolve the border conflict between the two countries.

From March 29th to 30th, the 20th Summit of the League of Arab States was held in Damascus, the capital of Syria. The meeting adopted the Damascus Declaration.

On March 3 1, the third meeting of Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation was held in Vientiane, the capital of Laos.

From April 2 to 4, the NATO summit was held in Romania.

On April 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Bush held talks in the southern Russian city of Sochi.

On April 8, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran has started to install 6,000 new centrifuges.

On April 8th, the National Election Commission of Montenegro announced the official results of the presidential election, and the incumbent president and the ruling Social Democratic Party candidate Wu Ianovici won. This election is the first presidential election held in Montenegro since its independence in June 2006.

On April 8-9, the first India-Africa Forum Summit was held in New Delhi. The meeting adopted two programmatic documents: Delhi Declaration and India-Africa Cooperation Framework Agreement.

On April 10, Nepal held the election of the Constituent Assembly, and the elected Constituent Assembly will determine Nepal's future political power and monarchy. On April 25th, the Election Commission of Nepal announced the seats of representatives of all parties in the Constituent Assembly, and Nepal (Maoist) became the largest party.

On April 13, after three days of high-level participation and dialogue, the 2008 annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia closed in Boao, Hainan.

On April 28th, India's PSLV-C9 rocket was launched with 10 satellites.

On May 2, Myanmar was hit by a tropical storm.

On May 3, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first convention in the history of the United Nations aimed at comprehensively protecting the rights of persons with disabilities, came into effect.

On May 5th, the international oil price broke through 120 USD for the first time, and the oil price in new york market once rose to 120.36 USD.

On May 7, Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in.

On May 8, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an order appointing Putin as the new Russian Prime Minister.

On May 10, Myanmar held a referendum on the draft new constitution except for some areas with severe tropical storms. On May 15, Myanmar's new constitution referendum committee announced the adoption of the new draft constitution.

On May 1 1, Serbia held parliamentary and local elections. The campaign alliance led by Serbian President Tadic won the parliamentary election.

On May 23rd, a special meeting of UNASUR was held in Brazil, and 12 member countries signed the charter of UNASUR.

On May 25th, the American Phoenix Mars lander successfully landed near the North Pole of Mars.

On May 28th, the Constituent Assembly of Nepal announced the abolition of the monarchy and changed the state system into a federal democratic republic.

From June 3 to 5, the High-level Conference on World Food Security was held in Italy.

On June 10, South Korea's cabinet submitted a collective resignation to President Lee Myung-bak, taking responsibility for the domestic political crisis caused by opening the beef market to the United States. On July 7, Lee Myung-bak announced a partial reshuffle of the cabinet and replaced three government ministers. On June 19, Lee Myung-bak apologized to Korean nationals for the beef import agreement reached with the United States.

12 In June, the Irish referendum rejected the Lisbon Treaty.

19 In June, the EU agreed to lift diplomatic sanctions against Cuba. The EU suspended the sanctions in 2005.

On June 2 1 day, Typhoon Fengshen, which landed in the Philippines on June 20, overturned a Philippine ferry carrying more than 800 people. As of July 2, only 57 people have been rescued, 16 1 person is confirmed dead, and the rest are missing.

On June 24th, Ecuador announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Colombia.

On June 27th, North Korea blew up the cooling tower of Yongbyon nuclear facility.

On June 29th, Mugabe was sworn in as the new president of Zimbabwe.

On June 30th, US President Bush signed a war appropriation bill with a total amount of $654.38+062 billion, which was used for the US war expenditure in Iraq and Afghanistan before the end of the Bush administration in June 2009.

On July 2, a four-day state of emergency was implemented in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Mongolia held the national Great Hural (Parliament) general election on June 29th. On July 1 day, demonstrations held by some political parties in Mongolia due to dissatisfaction with the election results turned into serious violence.

From July 7 to 9, the three-day G8 Summit was held in Japan. Japan, the host country, invited 14 non-G8 member countries to attend the meeting, which was the largest in the history of the G8 summit. China, president and Hu Jintao attended the G8 dialogue meeting with developing countries.

On July 12, the three-day meeting of heads of six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue ended in Beijing and a press release was issued.

On July 2 1, Nepali Congress Party presidential candidate Ram Yadav was elected as the first president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. On August 15, Nepal's Constituent Assembly elected Prachanda, Chairman of CPN (Maoist), as the first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

On July 2 1, Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb wanted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 10 years, was arrested in Serbia.

On July 29th, the mini-ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization failed to make a breakthrough on the controversial issues such as agriculture and non-agricultural products market access in the Doha Round, and the key battle of the Doha Round negotiations ended in failure.

On August 8, Georgian troops launched an attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and Russian troops immediately launched a counterattack. On August 26th, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

On August 17, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Free Trade Area was officially launched.

On August 18, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation as president. On September 6, the Pakistan Election Commission announced that Zardari, co-chairman of the People's Party, was elected president.

On August 20, Poland and the United States formally signed the agreement on the anti-missile base between Poland and the United States.

On August 26th, a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the DPRK had stopped the disablement operation of Yongbyon nuclear facility on June14th of that month.

On August 26th, supporters of the People's Democratic Alliance (NLD), an anti-government non-governmental political organization in Thailand, held a large-scale demonstration in Bangkok.

1 In September, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced his resignation.

On September 3, the Republican Party formally nominated John McCain as the Republican presidential candidate. Obama was formally nominated for the Democratic presidential nomination on August 27th.

On September 5th, Libyan Gaddafi met with visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

On September 6, 45 members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group reached an agreement on lifting the restrictions on nuclear exports to India.

On September 14, a Boeing 737 of Aeroflot crashed, killing all 88 people on board. One of the victims was a citizen of China.

On September 15, Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States, announced its application for bankruptcy protection.

On September 16, the Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament announced that the ruling alliance consisting of the ruling Tymoshenko alliance and the "Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense" alliance had disintegrated.

On September 16, the 63rd UN General Assembly opened at the UN headquarters in new york.

On September 17, Somchai, Vice Chairman of the Thai People's Power Party, was elected as Prime Minister of Thailand at the meeting of the House of Commons.

On September 24th, Taro Aso, president of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, was elected as the new Prime Minister.

On October 3rd, 65438/KLOC-0, US President Bush signed a financial rescue plan totaling 700 billion US dollars, authorizing the government to buy non-performing assets of banks and other financial institutions.

On June 65438+1October 1 1 day, the United States removed North Korea from the list of "state sponsors of terrorism". The next day, North Korea indicated that it would continue to shut down the Yongbyon nuclear facility.

10 10 15, Syria and Lebanon signed a joint communique, announcing the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries from now on.

101October 2 1 day, Indonesia's parliament ratified the ASEAN Charter. So far, all 65,438+00 ASEAN member countries have adopted the ASEAN Charter, which came into effect at the end of 2008.

10 10 On October 22nd, the East African Community, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and the Southern African Development Community held the first tripartite joint summit, proposing to immediately start the work of creating a regional economic community.

10/0 On October 24th, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided to reduce the daily output of crude oil by 6.5438+0.5 million barrels to stabilize the international oil price. After1October 27th, 10, the light crude oil futures price for February delivery in the New York Mercantile Exchange closed at $63.22 per barrel. The international oil price hit the lowest closing price in nearly 17 months.

10/0 On October 24th, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that it would provide Iceland with a two-year emergency loan of $2 1 billion to help it cope with the financial crisis. This is the first time that the IMF has provided financial assistance to western developed countries since 1976.

10 year 10 On October 29th, two strong earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.0 and 6.5 occurred in Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan.

165438+1On October 4th, Obama was elected as the 56th president of the United States.

165438+1On October 8, an accident occurred during the trial of a nuclear submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet, killing more than 20 people on board.

1 65438+1October 12, North Korea announced that it would cut off all land passages on the Korean Peninsula passing through the military demarcation line from June 65438+February12008 and strictly restrict traffic.

165438+ 10 15, the one-day G20 Financial Market and World Economic Summit was held in Washington, USA. China, president and Hu Jintao attended the meeting. At the end of the meeting, a declaration supporting global economic stability and actively responding to the financial crisis was issued.

165438+1On October 20th, the UN Security Council held an open meeting on the security situation in Somalia and the increasingly rampant piracy.

165438+1On October 22nd and 23rd, the 16th informal meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was held in Lima, Peru. The meeting issued the Lima Declaration and a statement on the global economy.

165438+1On October 24th, the North Korean military announced measures including expelling some Korean personnel and vehicles from Kaesong Industrial Zone and Mount Kumgang Tourist Area, interrupting Kaesong tourism, and banning the passage of the Korean-Korean railway.

165438+1On October 25th, the United States announced that it would allocate another $800 billion to unfreeze the consumer credit market, housing mortgage credit and small business credit market.

165438+1From October 26th to 29th, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Mumbai, India.

On February 6, 65438, a teenager in Greece was shot and killed by the police when he clashed with the police in the capital Athens, and then many demonstrations and protests broke out in major cities such as Athens.

12 From February 6th, "Hand in Hand -2008" China-India joint anti-terrorism training was held in India.

65438+February 8 ~ 1 1, the meeting of heads of six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue was held in Beijing.

65438+February 1 1 ~ 12, the EU summit was held in Brussels, Belgium.

65438+February 65438+March, the * * * meeting of China, Japan and Korea was held in Fukuoka, Japan.

15 February 15, the sixth China-US Strategic Dialogue was held in DC.

65438+February 15, Abhisit was elected Prime Minister of Thailand.

65438+February 65438+June, the Federal Reserve Board lowered the federal funds rate, that is, the overnight lending rate of commercial banks, to the lowest point in history, from 1% to 0 ~ 0.25%.

The futures price of 65438+February 19 and the New York Mercantile Exchange's June delivery of light crude oil closed at $33.87 per barrel in October, the lowest point in the past five years.