Photo taken on Oct. 25, 2019 shows the arrival ceremony of the first freight train of the China Railway Express (Yiwu-Liege) Alibaba eWTP Cainiao from eastern China’s Yiwu in Liege, Belgium. (Xinhua/Pan Geping) While China’s total goods imports and exports expanded 1.9 percent year on year to 32.16 trillion yuan …

An AEMT with the Texas Department of State Health Services injects the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a patient in Arlington, Texas, US on Feb 12, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Governments and airlines worldwide may soon require a vaccine passport that proves a person has been given a COVID-19 vaccination before being allowed …

A seamless roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine in Africa hinges on improving the knowledge of the continent’s frontline health care workers in critical areas like storage, supply chains management and effective communication to the public, the World Health Organization (WHO) official said. Ambrose Talisuna, emergency preparedness programme manager at WHO Regional …

Senegalese Gendarmes watch as a shipment of medical supplies donated to Africa to help fight with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma and the Alibaba Foundation arrives on a plane from Ethiopia at Blaise Diagne international airport in Thies, Senegal March 28, 2020.REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra Senegal on Wednesday …

China announced earlier that it would provide 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the global vaccine sharing initiative COVAX to meet the urgent needs of developing countries, showing a strong sense of responsibility at such a critical moment. It is another major move of China to promote equitable distribution …

Workers from the World Health Organization (WHO) inspect Ebola vaccines stored in an Arktek ultra-cold vaccine storage cylinder seen in the background in Mbandaka, Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo in this undated photograph taken in July, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] NAIROBI – New outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus disease in …

The COVID-19 pandemic, affecting all countries, has underscored both the way China addresses a global challenge and its vision for a better world. As the first major country to have effectively contained the virus and the only major economy to register positive growth last year, China has been at the forefront …

The Parliament of Rwanda has called upon the European Parliament to annul the resolution it adopted regarding Paul Rusesabagina’s case which was passed on February 11, describing it as an affront to Rwanda’s sovereignty and interfering with its judiciary. Rusesabagina faces various charges including terrorism, arson, and murder that he is alleged to have committed …

The Permanent Mission of China to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has congratulated Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala after she was appointed new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Monday. Applauding the “timely” appointment, China’s Representative and Ambassador to the WTO Li Chenggang noted that “the collective decision made by the …

File photo taken on July 15, 2020 shows Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attending a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The 164 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday agreed to appoint Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister of Nigeria, as the next director-general, said the WTO in a press release. …