Tag Archives: China

Changsha, China | XINHUA | Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, renowned for developing the first hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, died of organ failure at 91 on Saturday. The top rice scientist passed away in a hospital in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, at about 1 p.m., …

Chinese travellers spend twice as much as Americans. Hannah Ryder and Rosie Wigmore look at how Africa can attract a bigger share of this lucrative market. Before Covid-19 struck, a competition was about to heat up. March 2020 – around the time that African countries started to close their borders …

✅ Population 1.41178 billion, up by 5.38% ✅ Annual growth rate of 0.53% ✅ Urban residents up to 63.89% ✅ Gender ratio falls to 105.07 ✅ People aged 60 or above 18.7% ✅ Average age of the Chinese 38.8yrs ✅ working-age 16-59, 880 million China has maintained population growth over …

  Strains with China are “the biggest problem for America, the biggest problem for the world,” said former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during a forum on global issues on Friday. “Because if we can’t solve that, then the risk is that all over the world a kind of …

Washington, US | THE INDEPENDENT | U.S. Africa Command commander Gen. Stephen Townsend has said America can no longer afford to underestimate the economic opportunity and strategic consequence Africa embodies. U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend said this April 20 as he testified before the House Armed Services Committee as part of the command’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Ugandan government rejected a China Exim Bank proposal to use revenue from Oil to pay for a loan to build the planned Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). This is according to information shared by Works and Transport Minister Gen Edward Katumba Wamala in a meeting …

Beijing, China | XINHUA | Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for acting on the people-centered philosophy and fully implementing crackdown, prevention, regulation and control measures to resolutely curb telecom and online fraud. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday released a report on the global tracing of COVID-19 origins, following a joint research with China on issues including the pathways of the virus and future investigation in different countries. A total of 34 experts from the WHO and …

  Nairobi, Kenya | XINHUA |  China’s exceptional economic and political success can be called as the “Chinese miracle,” from which African countries have much to learn, a Kenyan party leader has said. “You have to give credit to the Communist Party of China (CPC) for having managed to steer …

Beijing, China | XINHUA |  On various occasions, Chinese President Xi Jinping has expounded on his insightful vision on safeguarding global peace and China’s role in advancing the cause of world peace. “As long as the idea of peace can strike deep roots and the sail of peace can be …