Xinhua China-related world news summary at 0930 GMT, Oct. 18

A tourism representative office of the Guangdong Province, southern China was officially inaugurated here on Monday in a bid to promote the Romania-China tourism cooperation.

The move was hailed by Romanian officials and members of a visiting Guangdong provincial government delegation here at the China (Guangdong)-Romania Economic, Trade and Tourism Cooperation Conference. (Romania-Guangdong-Tourism)

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PARIS -- China has offered 5.6 million U.S. dollars to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to relaunch its magazine Courier, in a move to promote dialogue and peace.

Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General and Professor Hao Ping, China's Vice Minister of Education and chair of the country's national commission for UNESCO, signed an agreement on Monday for the relaunch of the UNESCO Courier as a quarterly print and online publication in the six official languages of the United Nations. (UNESCO-China-Courier)

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DENVER, the United States -- Reaction to a rap song explaining how to target and rob Chinese people hit a stonewall of resistance in the United States, even though in the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado, which usually was not regarded as a main Chinese community.

"It is a serious and disgusting issue to prey on innocent families who work hard running their businesses and restaurants," Annie Guo, 30, the president of Asian Avenue, Colorado's premiere Asian-American business magazine, told Xinhua Sunday. (Denver-China-Song) Endi